Nanzhao: A Lost Kingdom in Southern China 

Southern China is a land full of miracles and mysteries, people often think of Southern China as nothing more than a Han Chinese land, but in fact historically speaking Han Chinese's ancestors the Sinitic people originated from Northern China, whereas Southern China was the land of various Non-Sinitic tribes including Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kradai, Austroasiatic, and possibly even Austronesian. Thanks for your presentation of Nanzhao, as someone of Southwestern Chinese descent, in recent years I become more and more aware of my native ancestry and I hope that the history of Southern China can be known by more people.

A very pleasant surprise to find this. Thanks for covering the Nanzhou Kingdom! When I was exploring the area around Erhai Lake, I found an all-Muslim village. There are other Islamic villages in nearby valleys. Muslim traders were in the area since the Tang Dynasty. The day after exploring the village, a Bai gentleman invited me into his home to share his musical traditions. The diverse cultures that have been there since the Nanzhou Kingdom make Erhai magical. The cultural richness matches the area's natural beauty. Yunnan is my favorite Chinese province.

Nanzhao Kingdom is mentioned a lot in wuxia novels, games, and dramas, particularly in the Chinese Paladin series

I'm from Myanmar and I would like to correct the term "Bamar/Burma" or "Burmese". This term originated from Indian traders who would describe Myanmar & Bagan as the civilization East of Brahmaputra River. The word Myanmar is the proper term created by Myanmar people and used since Bagan was first constructed, you can find its records in tablets, scrolls & pagodas. The word Burma was later used by the British when they asked the Indians what's east of India, thus the word got stuck in European records. So we prefer to call ourselves Myanmar.

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Legitimately interesting history! I really like this channel.

Great video - would love to see more on this period and this area (e.g Tibet)

that was very interesting, please more!

Great video thanks for it!

What a great study with great information! I hd traveled extensibly in this area and am very familiar with it and the locations brought to light here. I traveled on Lake Erhi, visit the Ba Yi People who were lovely, visited the land in Dali, Ancient Dali, stay there in 2002, seeing Snow Dragon Mountain, Kunming, Stone Forest, and the part of the Silk Road there out of the Gates of Dali and how beautiful. I also took the ski lift to the ridge of the mountain there and walked around in my tour as well. We took a tour from Nanchang, Jiangxi and the train went right through the Karst Mountains into Kunming (also saw the location of the great international flower show as well 2001) and I took thousands of pictures. It was the trip of a lifetime for me and I will return also one day when I retire. I also have the incredible picture of the three towers in the lake which is almost impossible to get a good shot of because of the clouds that almost make the reflection impossible but I got it!! The Stone Forest was an incredible mind blowing place as well! Butterfly Spring and many lovely places were traveled by us in a tour where I made friends for life even to this day we still chat on wechat! I have traveled a lot over this wonderful country and seen many great places and incredible feats of construction but this was truly magical. It was an event to make you swell with joy maybe as much as the Great Dam and the Terra Cotta mauseleums as well! Thank you for this great reminder of how beautiful a place can be on this earth!! Wo Ai Zhong Hua Ray C. Florida

Extremely informative. Stunning graphics, well-explained historical chronology and key events as well as covering the culture and influencing culture. A treasure trove 🤩🤩

This video was fascinating, I'd never heard of Nanzhao before. I'm also quite impressed by your pronunciation. I'm very used to history channels always absolutely butchering chinese pronunciation, so I was very pleasantly surprised to hear that you very clearly researched how to say certain words. Words like "nan," "feng," and "yi" are especially often misspoken, so I was very happy that you said them fairly accurately

cool video man

This is interesting. Thank you 💖

Thank you so much for the great work! It's quite interesting and I learned crucial information about my ancestral roots. I am from Chin State, Myanmar and my people call themselves Tuili Cho (or K'cho) people. But since we live in Chin State, people mainly know us as Chin people though it's not how we, the local address ourselves. Many historians believe that we are the descendants of Pyu people because we share many similar traits with Pyu peopel such as facial tattoo, naming system, earings and linguistic similarities up to present day. Later, Pyu people were merged by the Nanzhao people (Burmese people) as presented in the video. But in our oral legends, it says we come from a great lake, (Tuili Cho: Tui - water, Li - deep, cho- person) meaning people from the deep lake or the great lake which could be Erhai Lake that you mentioned in 2:01 minutes. For example, Nanzhao people call their chief Mang and until now within our people we call our leader or chieftain Mang pa which is also part of my name Mang in Yaw Mang.

I recommend a visit to the Pyu city of Sri Ksetra if you are in Myanmar

Eastern Asia history is so interesting, yet so complicated, at least for me as a European.

The picture of Duan Siping depicts Han robes but the tall metallic crown is reminiscent of Thai/ Southeast Asian crowns, with an obvious Indic influence.

Southern China is to me the most interesting part of China. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the video. As I read the history, this is part of a former Tai kingdom where its people generally migrated further south of China and formed new kingdoms; and three of those kingdoms have become Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.

Wow, it looks beautiful. The architecture and natural scenery is lovely.

Thank you for a fascinating video, it's strange how little has been written in English on Nan Zhao. Even volume 6 of the Cambridge History of China, Border States and Alien Regimes does not have a chapter on Nan Zhao.

How did the name "Myanma" came from? In old proto-Tibeto-Burman language, "Mrān" means "Horse". 🐎 "Máng" means "leader/king/chief". 👑 proto-T-B "Mrān máng /မ္ရန်းမာင်" old Burmese "Mrán má /မ္ရန်မာ" Modern Standard Burmese lost "R" pronouncing.And It became "Mián má/ မြန်မာ / Myanma " which means "fast strong or fast rough". But it's right translation is "Mīng mīn/မြင်းမင်း/ Horse King or Horse chief". In some dialect of Burmese like Marma, "Mrān máng/ မ္ရန်းမင်" still means "Horse chief".

stunning!

good job .

Please make a video on Kushan Kingdom🙏🏻 It's a request

Please cover the lost kingdom of Manipur, north east india..it will be a big story..

Now India is colonizing the North East Asian which used to be part of Nan Zhao.

It's mostly Yi and Bai people. By the way, in the new video game Elden Ring, the ''fictional language'' is actually Japanese, Japanese Kana alphabets replaced by Yi alphabets.

Nice video! Make something about Zhuang people, they are the biggest minority group in China but nobody knows about them, wolf warriors 🐺 Greetings from Serbia 🇷🇸

*A correction:* Back in the eight century, the “Chinese” had no same meaning as nowadays. So it is not quite right to say that Nanzhao have defeated the Chinese as they all were Chinese kingdoms.

The Yi people are the main force of the Nanzhao Kingdom.

Great video and very informational, however i keep hearing "kingdom of your nan" instead of "kingdom of Yunnan"

what is that 28 no. what do they called in ancient period. please tell me about no.28

I was lucky enough to live and work here almost 25 years ago.

Definitely better than your previous video with regards to endings but still lacking in a summary. Was a good watch overall 👍.

We tai-ahom people of assam, india were originally from yunnan and our first king, chaolung siu-ka-pha ruled there for many years before migrating towards west where assam lies(presently a province in india)

"...they didn't want to kill the silkworms..." R E S P E C T 🙏

I almost accidentally thought that it was NanMan from the three kingdom periods until the map shows Tang Dynasty.. 😅😅

I want to know your source of the map in 0:29

The Lao later referred to as the Tai peoples came from Guangdong and Guangxi migrated into Nanchao in the 6th to 9th after several failed rebellions against the Tang expansion into southeast China. Since the Han Tang up until the Q’ing dynasty, reference to these people in Chinese manuscripts referred to them as being the Lao or Ai Lao peoples. Tai is a Lao and Zhuang word that means native or local of, which was later misinterpreted to meaning some sort of ethnic groups, there are no historical manuscripts that mentions any group of people called Tai. They were called Lao people.

I think of the Yue and Tai world of what is now south China as if it were the Celts of mainland Europe. A long gone [not entirely] alternate world. Though the European analogy is weak- the Yue and Tai ultimately fared much better.

Is that the same as the dali kingdom?

I like your videos

Nanzhao besieged and sacked Hanoi in 863 enabled Vietic groups to rise and take dominant of northern Vietnam and eventually form the Viet kingdom

Could you elaborate on the Dali Kingdom next time? Thanks!

The natives of thailand 🇹🇭 n Laos 🇱🇦 reportedly came from here as well as the Shan minorities.

My wife is a Naga Lady. Her ancestors and herself live in this area till this day.

It seems the pagodas work! Not a dragon sight for centuries!

Where is the time machine ? I wanted to go back to china 5000 yrs ago to see my great great great great ……………….. great ….. grandpa n grandma.

If you can say ' immune ', you can say " Myanmar " ( myãmar) Routes, not ' routs'

Can visitors enter and climb up the triple pagodas?

Bro I’d love to know more and even travel to south and west China but most of the info about it it’s bias from all sides, I like to imagine what a day to day life would be like

Duan as in Duan in Serial movie Demi Gods and Semi Devils?...

1:20 wow Tibetan empire was as big as Tang empire. The two powerhouse in Asia before Mongols or Japan.

Dragons: " ohh what are those cute pointy thingy called ?? Looking tight!! " Humans: " those would ve called "pagodas" , sir" Dragons: " Nooooo, not pagodas!! We leave you alone now"

5:07 original people

That's a bit of a sudden stop to the video.

We Zo people believe that we are the descendants of Zhao people. 😑😑👍

南诏是我赵灵儿的故乡

Zhongguo is truly a fascinating nation!

didn't these flee from Chinese Yuan to Siam?

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The world is a story of migration. Cultures are formed as easily as languages die, what’s more important is the present condition and its sustainability. Clinging on to the past is the slow process of dying.

History teaches that "nothing is as unreliable as a good friend or a close ally" 😉

0:07 Poor Taiwan

Ah the shu kingdoms who rule over this land during liu bei before enter jin

Nanzhou means "South Kingdom." For some reason, I find that very funny.

So, it was not really different from many other Chinese kingdoms.

I got a 4.5 minute ad during this video. I love your channel but this is too much.

This our Tai shan kingdom.

Stop disrespecting my nan like that

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Thanks for the vid..the world must know there are many interesting and different peoples in china esp south china and that the han just destroyed it.

It's actually nan shao

Yunnan, Xinjiang, Guandong, Taiwan are four areas of the old empires which were always the last to be subjugated, and the first to rebel, causing their downfall, historically. When I read Thucydides’ book The Peloponnesian War on the fall of Athen, that’s when these 4 provinces came up on my mind. The old is new again in 2022!

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chao mean lords or leaders. the speak they speak a lao language. they settled in this area after coming down from bhutan. during the yuan dynasty they were pushed in modern day lao. burma thailand

The province of your nan

Is this secretly lemmino? Or is it just a sound a like?

Man

The southward expansion of China (Han Chinese) was a continuous gradual process going on for 4000+ years, Nanzhao wasn't the first and neither was it the last (you then have Tibet under nominal subordination of Ming and Qing dynasty, and finally practical control by PRC). The Han, or at the time called Huaxia, was originally just controlling the northern Chinese plain. The Chu, Wu, Yue, Ba, and Shu kingdoms that were as north as Hubei, Jiangsu and Sichuan, were of the non-Han ethnicities, some claim to be related to modern Thai, Vietnamese and Miao/Hmong people. The Miao/Hmong and Yi people (that formed Nanzhao) believe themselves to be the descendants of Chiyou. The man that lost the battle against the leader of the Huaxia, the god-king Huangdi, 4500 years ago. If Chiyou had won, they would have become the dominant race/culture of China, while the Huaxia/Han would be a minority living in the north western highlands of Shaanxi, Sichuan and Qinghai. There's a cousin branch of the Huaxia/Han that never left those highlands and rule the central plains, and they're called the Qiang people now. Actually Tibetans were originated from one of those cousin groups too. And then there are the eastern Yi (don't get mixed up with the Yi that formed Nanzhao, that's 彝 and the eastern Yi is 夷) who were from the northeast. The Koreans believed themselves to be the descendants of them, and also believe Chiyou to be their ancestor's leader. Yeah, there are contradictory records and myths about Chiyou being the leader of the eastern Yi or southern tribes. What we have now is that both Koreans and many southern ethnicities claim to be Chiyou's descendants. But their genetics and linguistics are too different that it's impossible for them to be originated from the same group. It's mostly just them claiming so to gain legitimacy against Han Chinese assimilation.

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One of the Ancient Civilizations in EAST of ASIA are a GREAT KNOWERS of STATUES. It is CLEAAAAR in EL-QURAAN that statues are for scientifc reasons and scientific works. this is why the original Builders of statues were worshipping it : it is not because they were stupid or fool but because they were too arrogant with their sciences to the point of refusing the Messages of our UNIQUE CREATOR just like we do today. I am very nearly convinced that IBRAHIM and his people are one of the Ancient Asians civilizations. According to EL QURAAN : the only Knowers and Experts of Statues in History are : 1.the civilization that IBRAHIM belongs to. 2. the "Israelian King Souleyman" and his djounoud. 3.They Were more advanced than actual civilization. Arabs think themselves children of ALLAH so they consider that all messengers were in Arabia. but ALLAH is saying : { و لكل أمة رسول } يونس 47 { أولم يهد لهم كم أهلكنا من قبلهم من القرون يمشون في مساكنهم إن في ذالك لآيات أفلا يسمعون } السجدة 26 { أولم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم كانوا أشد منهم قوة و أثاروا الأرض و عمروها أكثر مما عمروها و جاءتهم رسلهم بالبينات فما كان اللاه ليظلمهم و لكن كانوا أنفسهم يظلمون ثم كان عاقبة الذين أساؤوا السوءا أن كذبوا بآيات اللاه و كانوا بها يستهزؤون اللاه يبدأ الخلق ثم يعيده ثم إليه ترجعون } الروم 10 You can find that in the original version of any holy book from our UNIQUE CREATOR.

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Do you really know what pictures are used in your video? 😅 This is awkward None of the pictures have anything to do with your story

Arunchal is part of indiaa not china

FREE TIBET

those towers are ancient electric technology .. Tatarian technology taken away from us , dragons are lightning and electricity.

Proud Tibetan here! China claims Tibet has always been part of China, when Tibet has always been its own empire even rivaling the Tang Dynasty. Tibetans and Tibet will never be China or become Chinese.

Our TAI Kingdom, china should vacate it

Free Tibet.....

Mao crimes against China history have to be one of the biggest tragedies in human history. So much knowledge and monuments lost forever.

Have you ever been called "a drip"? What makes you "air your belly" ? Have you ever seen someone "air their pores " in public 🙀. Tell me when was the last time you were "taken for a ride". Have you ever "aimed/reached/shot for the sky"?. When was the last time you "chickened out". Watch the video to learn these intriguing expressions and be able to answer the questions above.

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Can't stand the accent.

#Free_Tibet #Free_East_Turkestan

I gave it one minute, and then I realized that I don't have to listen to this guy's strange brand of English... Very difficult to understand this guy's speech.

Nanzhao sounds han chinese, doubt they called their state after another language