Xingliao

Xingliao
興遼國
흥요국
1029–1030
CapitalLiaoyang
GovernmentMonarchy
Emperor 
• 1029 – 1030
Da Yanlin (Dae Yeon-rim)
History 
• Establishment
1029
• Fall
1030
Today part ofChina
Former state
Xingliao
Traditional Chinese興遼
Simplified Chinese兴辽
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXìngliáo
Xingliao
Hangul
흥요
Hanja
興遼
Revised RomanizationHeungyo
McCune–ReischauerHŭngyo
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Xingliao or Heungyo (Chinese: 興遼國; Korean: 흥요국; 1029–1030) was a state founded by Da Yanlin (Dae Yeon-rim), a Liao dynasty rebel, who was the 7th-generation descendant of Dae Joyeong, the founder of Balhae (Bohai).

History

In the summer of 1029, Da Yanlin rebelled at the Eastern Capital (Liaoyang), where he had served as a general. He imprisoned minister Xiao Xiaoxian and his wife, and killed the tax commissioners and chief military commander.

Da declared himself the Tianxing Emperor (天興皇帝) of his own Xingliao dynasty (興遼國/흥료국 and proclaimed the era name "Tianqing" (天慶).[1]

Da sent an ambassador requesting military support from Goryeo. Goryeo sent some troops against the Liao but the Khitans repelled them and expelled the Goryeo army. Further ambassadors were sent by Xingliao to Goryeo seeking aid but Goryeo refused to help them owing to the advice of nobles and scholars to the Goryeo king. Other Balhae people serving in the Liao military also refused to join Xingliao. Four groups of ambassadors were sent but the last group, led by Lee Kwang Rok, remained in Goryeo rather than return. Historian Alexander Kim considers this group to be refugees rather than an ambassadorial mission. Instead only a handful of Jurchens joined Da's regime. Many participants of the rebellion probably realized the weakness of the new dynasty and fled to Goryeo before its collapse.[2]

In 1030, Xingliao and its Jurchen and Goryeo allies were defeated by a Liao pincer attack led by Punu.[1] One of Da Yanlin's officers, Yang Xiangshi, betrayed him and opened the Eastern Capital's gates to the Khitans. His short lived dynasty came to an end. The old Balhae nobility were resettled near the Supreme Capital while others fled to Goryeo.[3]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Hershey, Zachary. The Ecological, Economic, And Ethno-Cultural Frontiers Of North China: State Formation In The Eastern Intermediate Zone—a History Of The Qai 奚 (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. p. 229.
  2. ^ Kim 2019, p. 110.
  3. ^ Twitchett 1994, p. 113-114.

References

  • Kim, Alexander (2019), Relations between the Bohai people and the Koryŏ kingdom
  • Twitchett, Denis (1994), "The Liao", The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6, Alien Regime and Border States, 907–1368, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 43–153, ISBN 0521243319

See also