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
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
Model recreation of the palace of Minyue at Gaohuping.
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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.
Southward expansion of the Han dynasty
…previous Qin dynasty and continued during the Han era. Campaigns were dispatched to conquer the Baiyue tribes, leading to the Han dynasty's annexation of Minyue in 135 BC and 111 BC, Nanyue in 111 BC, and Dian in 109 BC. Han Chinese culture took root into the newly conquered territories and the Baiyue and Dian…
A statue of Wuzhu, King of Minyue in Gulou District, Fuzhou
The Minyue and main polities in Afro-Eurasia and Oceania around 200 BC