Where are the ancient states of Chu, Wu, Yue, Korea, Qin, etc. now?

1. Chu State

At its peak, its largest jurisdiction was roughly the current Hubei, all of Hunan, Chongqing, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou, and parts of Guangdong place. The ancestors of the Chu State came from the ancient Emperor Zhuanxu. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the patriarch Wu Xiong served King Wen of Zhou as a teacher and made great contributions to the rise of the Zhou Dynasty.

After the death of Wan Xiong, his descendants Xiong Li, Xiong Kuang, and Xiong Yi continued to serve the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty. During the reign of King Zhou Cheng, King Zhou Cheng wanted to assist the royal family for four generations of Wan Xiong’s ancestors and grandchildren. Xiong Yi was enfeoffed to the land of Chu barbarians, ranked as viscount, and settled in Danyang. The Chu State was born.

2. The State of Qin

is located west of Jinshui River in Shanxi, most of Shaanxi today. The State of Qin was a vassal state established in northwest China by the Huaxia people (the ancient name of the Han people) during the Zhou Dynasty. The Qin people were a branch of the Huaxia people who moved westward. Their ancestors, the tribe surnamed Ying, were the right-hand assistants of the Shang Dynasty in guarding Xirong as early as the Yin-Shang Dynasty. They were highly valued by the Shang Dynasty and were aristocrats of the Shang Dynasty.

In 325 BC, King Qin Huiwen became king. In 316 BC, Qin destroyed Shu. From then on, Qin officially became the largest country among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. In 246 BC, King Yingzheng of Qin came to the throne. In the ten years from 230 BC to 221 BC, he destroyed the six countries and established the Qin Dynasty.

3. South Korea

In today's southern Henan (south of the Yellow River) (37 BC - 52 AD), according to the records of "Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms" and "Relics of the Three Kingdoms", BC In 37 AD, Prince Jumong of Buyeo fled Buyeo to his capital Buyeo because of disagreements with other princes, and established Goguryeo. Some scholars believe that Goguryeo was founded as early as the 2nd century BC. "Goguryeo" appeared in the "Book of Han" as a geographical term in 113 BC.

Most historical records believe that Goguryeo was founded in 37 BC or in the mid-1st century BC. It is speculated that in the early days of its founding, the Goguryeo people may have been composed of Haoqiang and some Fuyu people who migrated to this area. The term "Haoqian people" did not originally refer to a definite ethnic entity. At the beginning of the establishment of Goguryeo, it was in a long-term military confrontation with Buyeo.

4. Wu State

In today's Jiangsu, the political center was in Gusu (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu). The State of Wu (May 23, 222 - May 1, 280[1]?), one of the Three Kingdoms, was a regime established by Sun Quan in southeastern China. The country was named "Wu" and historians called it Sun Wu. . Because it was in a tripod with Cao Wei and Shu Han, and the area it ruled was located in the east of the Three Kingdoms, it was also called Soochow.

Different from the vassal state of Wu that existed from the 12th century BC to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the state of Wu established by Yang Xingmi during the Five Dynasties, historians generally call it Sun Wu by adding the surname of the ruler in front. Because it lived in the east of the Three Kingdoms, it was called Soochow.

5. The State of Yue

Distributed in today’s Zhejiang (the old land of the State of Yue), Fujian (Ouyue, there was the State of Dongou in the Han Dynasty, and it was also a descendant of the State of Yue), Guangdong , Guangxi Yue Kingdom (2032 BC - 222 BC) was a vassal state in southeastern China during the Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, and Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Located in Yangzhou in the southeast, its ancestor was Wuyu, the concubine of the Xia Dynasty monarch Shaokang, and a direct descendant of Dayu.

The Yue State, Qi State, Zan State, Bao State, etc. were all enfeoffed by the descendants of Dayu. The territory of the Yue Kingdom is located in the south (yang) side of Ouyu Mountain, and the king's surname is Si. The base of Hoof (Zai Xun) is Ouyang. The Yue Kingdom was mainly centered on the Tomb of King Yu in Shaoxing. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Yunchang often had conflicts with the state of Wu and attacked each other. In 496 BC, after Yunchang died, Gou Jian ascended the throne.

In 473 BC, Gou Jian destroyed the state of Wu, sent troops north to cross the Huaihe River, met with the princes of Qi and Jin in Xuzhou, and paid tribute to the Zhou royal family. The sphere of influence once reached Qilu in the north, the East China Sea in the east, and today's Wanhuai and Ganpo in the west, dominating the southeast.

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