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Traditional Chinese | 準王 | ||||||
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Hangul | 준왕 | ||||||
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Jun of Gojoseon was the last king of Gija Joseon. He was succeeded by Wiman (Wei Man),whose usurpation of the throne began the dynasty of Wiman Joseon of Gojoseon. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Wiman entered Gojoseon as a refugee,and submitted to King Jun. Jun granted Wiman's request to serve as a commander of the western borders. However,sometime around 194 BC or 193 BC,Wiman led a revolt,and followed Jun down into Mahan territory,which was situated in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
The Lower Paleolithic era on the Korean Peninsula and in Manchuria began roughly half a million years ago. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC,and the Neolithic period began after 6000 BC,followed by the Bronze Age by 2000 BC,and the Iron Age around 700 BC. Similarly,according to The History of Korea,the Paleolithic people are not the direct ancestors of the present Korean people,but their direct ancestors are estimated to be the Neolithic People of about 2000 BC.
The Lelang Commandery was a commandery of the Han dynasty established after it had conquered Wiman Joseon in 108 BC and lasted until Goguryeo conquered it in 313. The Lelang Commandery extended the rule of the Four Commanderies of Han as far south as the Han River in present-day South Korea. South Korean scholars have described its administrative areas as being limited to the Pyongan and Hwanghae regions,whose southern bounds lie roughly 75 miles north of the Han River.
Jizi,Qizi,or Kizi was a semi-legendary Chinese sage who is said to have ruled Gija Joseon in the 11th century BCE. Early Chinese history documents like the Book of Documents and the Bamboo Annals describe him as a virtuous relative of the last king of the Shang dynasty who was punished for remonstrating with the king. After Shang was overthrown by Zhou in 1046 BCE,he allegedly gave political advice to King Wu,the first Zhou king. Chinese texts from the Han dynasty onwards claim that King Wu enfeoffed Jizi as ruler of Chaoxian? According to the Book of Han,Jizi brought agriculture,sericulture,and many other facets of Chinese civilization to Joseon. His family name was Zi/Ja (子) and given name was Xuyu/Suyu.
Dangun or Tangun,also known as Dangun Wanggeom,was the legendary founder and first king of Gojoseon,the first Korean kingdom. He founded the first kingdom around present-day Liaoning province in Northeast China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. He is said to be the "grandson of heaven","son of a bear",and to have founded the first kingdom in 2333 BC. The earliest recorded version of the Dangun legend appears in the 13th-century Samguk Yusa,which cites Korea's lost historical record,Gogi and China's Book of Wei.
Wi Man or Wei Man was a Chinese military general and monarch. He was originally a military leader of the Chinese Kingdom of Yan. When king Lu Wan of Yan was defeated by the Han in 195 BCE,Wi Man fled to Gojoseon in north-western Korea and later usurped power from its king in 194 BCE,establishing Wiman Joseon. Recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han,Wiman was the first ruler in the history of Korea to have been recorded in documents from the same time period.
Gojoseon,also called Joseon,was the first kingdom on the Korean Peninsula. According to Korean mythology,the kingdom was established by the legendary king Dangun. Gojoseon possessed the most advanced culture in the Korean Peninsula at the time and was an important marker in the progression towards the more centralized states of later periods. The addition of Go,meaning "ancient",is used in historiography to distinguish the kingdom from the Joseon dynasty,founded in 1392 CE.
Wiman Joseon was a dynasty of Gojoseon. It began with Wiman's seizure of the throne from Gija Joseon's King Jun and ended with the death of King Ugeo who was a grandson of Wiman. Apart from archaeological data,the main source on this historical period comes from chapter 115 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. Wiman was originally a Chinese military leader from the Kingdom of Yan under the Han dynasty.
Gija Joseon was a dynasty of Gojoseon allegedly founded by the sage Jizi (Gija),a member of the Yin dynasty royal house.
The state of Jin was a confederacy of statelets which occupied some portion of the southern Korean peninsula from the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE,bordering the Korean Kingdom of Gojoseon to the north. Its capital was somewhere south of the Han River. It preceded the Samhan confederacies,each of which claimed to be the successor of the Jin state.
Samhan,or Three Han,is the collective name of the Byeonhan,Jinhan,and Mahan confederacies that emerged in the first century BC during the Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea,or Samhan,period. Located in the central and southern regions of the Korean Peninsula,the Samhan confederacies eventually merged and developed into the Baekje,Gaya,and Silla kingdoms. The name "Samhan" also refers to the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
The three Gojoseon kingdoms are states thought to have existed according to Joseon Sangosa (1924–25). The concept gained a following among several fringe historians,although it is not completely accepted by mainstream scholars.
The Four Commanderies of Han were Chinese commanderies located in the north of the Korean Peninsula and part of the Liaodong Peninsula from around the end of the second century BC through the early 4th AD,for the longest lasting. The commanderies were set up to control the populace in the former Gojoseon area as far south as the Han River,with a core area at Lelang near present-day Pyongyang by Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty in early 2nd century BC after his conquest of Wiman Joseon. As such,these commanderies are seen as Chinese colonies by some scholars. Though disputed by North Korean scholars,Western sources generally describe the Lelang Commandery as existing within the Korean peninsula,and extend the rule of the four commanderies as far south as the Han River. However,South Korean scholars assumed its administrative areas to Pyongan and Hwanghae provinces.
Xuantu Commandery was a commandery of the Chinese Han dynasty. It was one of Four Commanderies of Han,established in 107 BCE in the northern Korean Peninsula and part of the Liaodong Peninsula,after the Han dynasty conquered Wiman Joseon. Xuantu moved its capital to Liaodong in 75 BC due to native resistance and the area formerly under the Lintun Commandery was transferred to the Lelang Commandery. Xuantu was conquered by Goguryeo in 319 AD.
The Han conquest of Gojoseon was a campaign launched by Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty against Wiman Joseon between 109 and 108 BCE. It resulted in the fall of Gojoseon and the establishment of the Four Commanderies of Han in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.
Ugeo was the last king of Wiman Joseon,the last remnant of Gojoseon. He was a grandson of Wi Man.
The Yemaek or Yamaek are an ancient tribal group native to the northern Korean Peninsula and Manchuria and are commonly regarded as the ancestors of modern Koreans. The Yemaek have ancestral ties to multiple kingdoms in Northeast Asia including Gojoseon,Buyeo,Goguryeo,and multiple tribes including Okjeo,Dongye,Yangmaek and the Sosumaek.
The history of Sino-Korean relations dates back to prehistoric times.
Lintun Commandery was a commandery established in the Korean peninsula by the Chinese Han dynasty. Lintun Commandery was one of the Four Commanderies of Han along with Lelang Commandery,Xuantu Commandery and Zhenfan Commandery.
The Zhenfan Commandery was one of the Four Commanderies of the Chinese Han dynasty located on the Korean Peninsula. It existed between 108 BC and 82 BC.