Min-Yue

The Min - Yue (Chinese闽越) were a significant subset of the "Hundred Yue tribes ", the word Yue represented a collective name of the Chinese chroniclers for a non-Chinese cultural community in what is now southern China. The settlement area of ​​the Min- Yue lay around the Min River in modern Fujian province. In the south, similar significant Nan Yue were (扬 越) their neighbors.

The titled as King of Fujian chiefs derived their origin from King Goujian from ( Kou Chien, reign 496-465 BC), a famous rulers of the ancient Yue.

For the Han period the kingdoms of Min - Yue (202 BC) and Donghai (192 BC) originated in Fujian. The southern neighbor of the two was the kingdom of Nan Yue. The king of Min - Yue, Ying Xing (郢 兴) attacked by 138-135 BC both Donghai东海and Nan- Yue, so that both states turned to Han China for help. This successfully sent troops against Min- Yue, while Ying Xing by his younger brother Yushan (余 善) was murdered, China submitted to. Then put the Kingdom of Han China Donghai restore, this time under the reign of a younger brother of Min- Yue King.

As Donghai 112 BC killed some Han officials, China sent ( Emperor Wudi ) forces over land and sea to Fujian. The Han generals killed the king and subjected the country. Your government decided to deport the population due to unreliability in the region between the Huai and Yangtze River. Nevertheless existed until the end of the 1st century apparently only a single Chinese colony at the mouth of the Min