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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.
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 ...
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.
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]
Map of the Warring States Period, after Yue conquered Wu. Other Baiyue peoples are shown in the south.. The Old Yue language (Chinese: 古越語; pinyin: Gǔyuè yǔ; Jyutping: Gu2 Jyut6 Jyu5; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kó͘-oa̍t-gí / Kó͘-oa̍t-gír / Kó͘-oa̍t-gú, Vietnamese: Tiếng Việt cổ) is an unattested, unclassified language, or group(s) of various languages, spoken in ancient southern ...
Yue statue of a tattooed Baiyue man in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum (c. 3rd century BCE) Suggested early migration route of early Austronesians into and out of Taiwan, based on ancient and modern mtDNA data. This hypothesis assumes the Sino-Austronesian grouping, a minority view among linguists. (Ko et al.., 2014) [114]
Cantonese folktales are folktales associated with the Cantonese people, the dominant Han Chinese subgroup in the Southern Chinese twin provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.This body of folktales have been influenced both by the culture of Han Chinese and that of Nanyue, the original Baiyue inhabitants of the region before sinicization occurred.