Where was the ancient Yelang Kingdom in Guizhou?

In the west and south of present-day Guizhou. During the Qin and Han Dynasties belonged to the Yelang country, the Tang and Song dynasties had twice set Yelang County. Here is China's rice, drums, witch Nuo culture is the most complete preservation of the region, thousands of years ago, the continuation of the "bamboo worship", "cattle totem" and bullfighting, dogfighting, and other unique ethnic customs, constituting a rich connotation, confusing Yelang culture.

Yelang country is one of the most mysterious ancient southwest, as early as in the Qin and Han Dynasties, in today's southwest China, Yunnan, Guizhou, western Sichuan, living in the area of a number of different sizes of ethnic groups or tribes, mainly Yelang, Dian, Qiongdu, etc., the Western Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian in the "Records of the Grand Historian," the minorities south of Bashu, collectively referred to as Southwest barbarians.

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The Western Han historian Sima Qian wrote this in the Records of the Grand Historian: "Because the roads are impassable, each of them takes a state as their lord and does not know the vastness of Han." (Translation: Because the road was impassable, each thought he was the lord of a state and did not know the vastness of the Han Dynasty.) It means that the main reason for the misunderstanding was the inconvenient transportation.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, a regime entity with a population of several hundred thousand people and a territory of about 200,000 square kilometers was already considered not small. The ancient Yelang country territory of the Qin and Han Dynasties due to the stagecoach road is not accessible, external communication difficulties, its ruler in a closed state for a long time, in the territory under its command only I, do not know the world has Han.

So, it is not surprising that the king of Yelang, or the king of Dian, who did not see the Han envoys, asked the question, "Which of the Han is bigger than me?

There is no reason for the "arrogance of the night-lang", and it's not just the "arrogance" of the night-lang's ruler.

The mountainous Yelang area, the earliest and Bashu and there is no avenue to pass, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, vigorously open up the Southwest barbarians, road construction has become a major event, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Tang Meng conscripted tens of thousands of soldiers from Bashu Guanghan to build a road, later known as the Yelang Road.

Toward the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Yelang fought with neighboring states, so the Han Dynasty sent Chen Li to mediate, but the king of Yelang still refused to obey. Chen Li rode into the hinterland of Yelang and decisively killed the king of Yelang. From then on, the history of Yelang as a local ancient country thus ended.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Yelang Kingdom