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The Baiyue, Hundred Yue, or simply Yue, were various ethnic groups who inhabited the regions of southern China and northern Vietnam during the 1st millennium BC and 1st millennium AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They were known for their short hair, body tattoos, fine swords, and naval prowess.
Pages in category "Baiyue" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Âu Việt; L. Lạc Việt; O.
The area of China south of the Nanling Mountains, known as the Lingnan (roughly modern Guangxi and Guangdong), was originally home to peoples known to the Chinese as the Hundred Yue (or Baiyue). Large-scale Han Chinese migration to the area began after the Qin conquest of the region in 214 BC. [8]
The Western Ou (西 甌; pinyin: Xī Ōu; Tây meaning "western") were other Baiyue tribes, with short hair and tattoos, who blackened their teeth [1] and are the ancestors of the modern upland Tai-speaking minority groups in Vietnam such as the Nùng and Tay, [2] [3] as well as the closely related Zhuang people of Guangxi.
As trade was an important source of wealth for the Baiyue peoples of coastal southern China, the region south of the Yangtze attracted the attention of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and he undertook a series of military campaigns to conquer it. Lured by its temperate climate, fertile fields, maritime trade routes, relative security from warring ...
During the Warring States period, the Baiyue people were known for their swordsmanship and for producing fine swords. According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, King Goujian met a female sword fighter called Nanlin (Yuenü) who demonstrated mastery over the art. So he commanded his top five commanders to study her technique.
The Baiyue (Chinese: 臺灣百岳; pinyin: Táiwān bǎiyuè) is a list of one hundred mountain peaks in Taiwan. They were chosen by a group of prominent Taiwanese hikers from mountain peaks known at the time to be over 3,000 meters in height.
Lạc) and they were lumped into the category of Baiyue by the Sinitic Han Chinese peoples to the north of them. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The Warring States period 's encyclopedia Lüshi Chunqiu mentioned the name Yueluo 越駱 (SV: Việt Lạc ), which the Han historian and philosopher Gao You asserted to be a country's name (國名).