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Minyue was an ancient kingdom in what is now the Fujian province in southern China. It was a contemporary of the Han dynasty, and was later annexed by the Han empire as the dynasty expanded southward.
A statue of Wuzhu, King of Minyue in Gulou District, Fuzhou
The Minyue and main polities in Afro-Eurasia and Oceania around 200 BC
Model recreation of the palace of Minyue in Gaohuping.
The southward expansion of the Han dynasty was a series of military campaigns and expeditions by the Han dynasty in modern-day Southern China and Northern Vietnam. Military expansion to the south bega
Minyue
…kingdom in what is now the Fujian province in southern China. It was a contemporary of the Han dynasty, and was later annexed by the Han empire as the dynasty expanded southward. The kingdom existed approximately from 306 BC to 110 BC. Both Minyue and Dong'ou were founded by the royal family of Yue that fled after being defeated…
Mural showing cavalry and chariots, from the Dahuting Tomb (Chinese: 打虎亭汉墓; pinyin: Dahuting Han mu) of the late Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220 AD), located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China
By 111 BC, Emperor Wu of Han successfully conquered Nanyue and annexed it into the Han empire.
Painted ceramic statues of one Chinese cavalryman and ten infantrymen with armor, shields, and missing weapons in the foreground, and three more cavalrymen in the rear, from the tomb of Emperor Jing of Han (r. 157–141 BC), now located at the Hainan Provincial Museum