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Changsha Kingdom
長沙國
203/202 BC–AD 33
Kingdoms of the Han dynasty in 195 BC
Kingdoms of the Han dynasty in 195 BC
StatusKingdom of the Han dynasty
CapitalLinxiang
(present-day Changsha)
GovernmentVassal monarchy
History 
• Established
203/202 BC
• Extinction of the Wu family line
157 BC
• Reestablishment under the Liu family
155 BC
• Dissolution under Wang Mang
AD 9
• Restoration
AD 26
• Disestablished
AD 33
Changsha Kingdom
Traditional Chinese長沙國
Simplified Chinese长沙国
Literal meaningState of Changsha
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChángshā Guó
Wade–GilesCh‘ang-sha Kuo
IPA/ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ ʂä⁵⁵ kwɔ³⁵/
Xiang
IPA/ʈ͡ʂan¹³ sa̠³³ kuɤ̞²⁴/
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingcoeng4 saa1 gwok3
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTiông-sa Kok

The Changsha Kingdom was a kingdom of China's Han dynasty, located in present-day Hunan and some surrounding areas. The kingdom was founded when Emperor Gaozu granted the territory to Wu Rui, one of his main followers, around the same time as the establishment of the Han dynasty in 202 BC. Wu Rui and his descendants held the kingdom for five generations until Wu Zhu died without an heir. Later, the kingdom was reestablished for a member of the imperial family. However, the creation of this second kingdom coincided with the Rebellion of the Seven States and the subsequent reforms under Emperor Jing, and the Changsha branch of the Liu family saw its autonomy greatly diminished. The kingdom was dissolved during Wang Mang's usurpation, briefly restored again after the founding of the Eastern Han, and finally abolished in AD 33 and converted to a commandery under the imperial government.

Changsha was one of the largest and longest-lasting kingdoms of the Han dynasty.[1] Despite being established on the empire's frontier, Changsha was relatively advanced in technology and art. Numerous archaeological sites of the kingdom have been discovered and excavated, most notably Mawangdui, the tomb of Changsha's chancellor Li Cang and his family, providing valuable insight into life in the kingdom and Han dynasty in general.

History

The first king of Changsha, Wu Rui, was a Baiyue leader who had been the magistrate of Poyang County under the Qin. (The district, now mostly flooded by the Yangtze to form Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, was then still fertile lowlands.) He enjoyed high prestige among the local people and was known as "Lord of the Po" (番君, Pójūn).[2][3] During the collapse of Qin, he organized a mostly Baiyue army to rebel.[3] The Chu hegemon Xiang Yu enthroned Rui as one of his 18 kings under the title "King of Hengshan" (衡山王, Héngshān Wáng). Rui's army then followed the Han leader Liu Bang (the future Emperor Gaozu) to the Guanzhong Plain, where they received the surrender of Ziying, the last ruler of Qin.[4] After Han won its conflict with Chu to succeed Qin as the preeminent power in China, Emperor Gaozu moved Wu Rui's fief[4] and established the Kingdom of Changsha in 203/202 BC.[5] The capital was known as Linxiang and located within the present-day city of Changsha.[6] The new kingdom helped the Han dynasty consolidate control over the Chu heartland and served as a buffer state against the independent realm of Nanyue established by the Qin general Zhao Tuo in present-day Guangdong.[7][8] Rui died shortly after moving to his new territory, and the title passed to his son Wu Chen (吳臣, Wú Chén).[9] Wu Chen reigned for 8 years.[10]

The kings of Changsha were staunch supporters of the Han, and their loyalty and competence was highly praised by successive emperors.[11] As a result, although Changsha was among the weakest in the ten original kingdoms created by Emperor Gaozu, it was the only one to survive the emperor's campaign to eliminate kings that are not members of the imperial family.[12][13] In 195 BC, Ying Bu, king of Huainan and son-in-law of Wu Rui, was forced to rebel against the Han and was defeated. As Ying retreated south of the Yangtze River, the king of Changsha pretended to assist him in his escape to Nanyue but instead killed him in Cixiang (茲鄉, Cíxiāng) near Poyang.[14][15]

Wu Chen was succeeded by his son Wu Hui (吳回, Wú Huí). Hui reigned for 7 years, and was succeeded by his son Wu You (吳右, Wú Yòu), whose name is also recorded as Wu Ruo (吳若, Wú Ruò).[10][16] At the same time, the Han dynasty was under Emperor Hui and Empress Lü, who favored Huang–Lao political views and lenient laws. Changsha was able to develop under relative peace.[17] In 183 BC, however, Zhao Tuo proclaimed himself emperor in Nanyue and then twice invaded Changsha, occupying a few counties. The reason was Empress Lü's decision to ban the trade of iron wares between the two kingdoms, which angered Zhao Tuo.[18][19] Later during Empress Lü's reign, the imperial court decided to launch a military campaign against Nanyue. However, in the hot and humid summer, a plague broke out in the Han army, hindering its advance. The campaign was eventually cancelled with the death of Empress Lü.[18] In 178 BC, the kingdom passed to Wu You's son Wu Zhu (吳著, Wú Zhù), for whom the names Wu Chai (吳差, Wú Chāi) and Wu Chan (吳產, Wú Chǎn) are alternatively used in some records.[20] Wu Zhu reigned for 21 years, dying in 157 BC without male issue.[1][21]

After the extinction of this house, Emperor Jing granted Changsha to his son Liu Fa (劉發, Liú Fā) in 155 BC.[21][13] Fa's mother Tang (唐, Táng) was the servant of the emperor's concubine Cheng (程, Chéng) and had given birth to Fa after the intoxicated emperor had mistaken her as his favorite concubine. Consequently, Fa had the lowest status among the emperor's 14 sons and was enfeoffed in Changsha, far away from the capital Chang'an and the Central Plain.[22] Changsha Kingdom was held by the Liu family until early 1st century AD, when the Han dynasty was interrupted by usurper Wang Mang. Along with other kings of the Liu family in the empire, Liu Shun (劉舜, Liú Shùn), the last King of Changsha, was demoted first to the rank of duke and then to a commoner.[23][24] After the restoration of Han dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor, himself a descendant of Liu Fa, gave Changsha to Liu Shun's son Liu Xing (劉興, Liú Xīng) in AD 26. In the year 33, however, the emperor rescinded the decision and demoted Xing to the rank of a marquis, citing the distance of kinship between Xing and himself. Changsha was administered as an imperial commandery thereafter.[23]

Territory

Silk map unearthed from Mawangdui, showing Changsha and the neighboring kingdom of Nanyue.

The exact extent of the first Changsha Kingdom is still unclear. The official Book of Han reports Changsha's border “reaching the north bank of Han River and stretching to Jiuyi Mountains”, although it is unlikely that Changsha actually reached so far. Similarly, it reports that, when Emperor Gaozu created the Kingdom of Changsha, he granted Wu Rui authority over the five commanderies of Changsha, Yuzhang (豫章, Yùzhāng) Xiang (象, Xiàng), Guilin (桂林, Guìlín) and Nanhai (南海, Nánhǎi). However, Yuzhang Commandery had already been granted to Ying Bu, the king of Huainan, while Xiang, Guilin, and Nanhai Commanderies were all held by Zhao Tuo, the effectively independent king of Nanyue.[25] This state of the Changsha–Nanyue border was confirmed in a map unearthed from the Mawangdui tombs.[26][27] On the other hand, other preserved and unearthed texts have shown that there were two other commanderies actually controlled by the Changsha Kingdom: Wuling (武陵, Wǔlíng) and Guiyang (桂陽, Guìyáng). The first may have been granted by the imperial Han government; the historical geographer Zhou Zhenhe even argues that the "Yuzhang" recorded in the Book of Han was simply a mistake for "Wuling", which would have been part of the original grant of the kingdom.[28] Guiyang was likely created by the kings of Changsha at some point for defense against invasions from Nanyue.[26][27]

The reconstruction offered by Zhou and Tan Qixiang is that Changsha's northern border ran along modern Tongcheng, Songzi, and Gong'an counties; the western border along modern Longshan, Zhenyuan, and Jingzhou counties; and the eastern border along modern Gao'an, Yichuan, Lianhua, and Chaling counties. Changsha's southern frontier with Nanyue was approximately the modern southern border of Hunan.[29]

When Emperor Jing granted Changsha to his son Liu Fa, the kingdom's territory was reduced to Changsha Commandery alone. Consequently, the kingdom's southwestern border was in the vicinity of modern Chaling, Wugang and Quanzhou counties.[29] From Emperor Wu's reign onward, 20 marquisates was created from Changsha. These marquisates were administered as parts of neighboring commanderies, further reducing the kingdom's territory.[30]

Demographics

Changsha was sparsely populated compared to other parts of the Han dynasty.[31] The population primarily consisted of descendants of Chu colonizers, members of the Qin military garrison and their offspring, assimilated Nanman, and the native Baiyue tribes. Zhao Tuo, King of Nanyue, claimed that "half of Changsha are Man and Yi". Jia Yi, grand tutor of the king from 176 to 172 BC, wrote that there were only 25,000 households in the kingdom,[32] although it is likely that the figure was an underestimation.[33] (Jia, an advocate for further limits on the kingdoms' autonomy, saw Changsha's weakness as a reason of its loyalty.) However, the population increased rapidly, partly due to the favorable agricultural policies and partly because of immigration both from within the Han empire and from Nanyue.[34] In AD 2, when the Han dynasty conducted an empire-wide population census, the population of Changsha was recorded as 235,825 living in 43,470 households. The commanderies that constituted the larger Changsha of early Han dynasty together had a population of 717,433 living in 126,858 households, a 5-fold increase from Jia Yi's estimation during the early Han period.[35]

Government

A clay imprint of the seal of the chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom

In the early Han dynasty, the government structure of the vassal kingdoms closely followed that of the Han central government, but subtle differences remained.[36] The chancellor (相國, xiàngguó, before 194 BC and 丞相, chéngxiàng, thereafter) was the highest civil office and the leader of the government.[37] The chancellor was not directly responsible for the kingdom's everyday affairs, which were overseen by the court clerk (內史, nèishǐ).[38] The responsibilities of the royal secretary (御史大夫, yùshǐ dàfū) was similar to the imperial equivalent, although his status was likely lower than the court clerk.[39] All of the imperial Nine Ministers also had their equivalents in the kingdom.[40] Except for the chancellor and grand tutor (太傅, tàifù) which were selected by the imperial court, all officials were appointed by the king.[36] Compared to the central government where the crown princes' tutors had little real authority, the grand tutor played a much more extensive role in a kingdom, as he supervised the king for the imperial government.[39] Meanwhile, the high status of the court clerk was similar to that of the Warring States rather than Han central government.[41] In addition, Changsha had a unique office, the "pillar of state" (柱國, zhùguó). It was designation for an eminent official originating from the Chu state, but was not seen elsewhere in the Han dynasty;[41] the post may have merged into or been replaced by the chancellor.[42]

Under the Wu family, the Changsha Kingdom was administered at two levels, the commandery and the county. As described above, the state is believed to have consisted of the three commanderies of Changsha, Wuling, and Guiyang and to have claimed further commanderies under Nanyue's control. The three actual commanderies were divided into over 40 counties.[43][44] Under the cadet branch of the Liu family, the Changsha Kingdom eliminated the needless commandery level as its territory had been much reduced. In AD 2, the kingdom only administered 13 counties.[43][44]

In regions inhabited by the Baiyue, larger but less populated circuits were used in place of counties. Two circuits—He (齕, Hé) and Ling (泠, Líng)—are noted on a map unearthed at Mawangdui. Counties were each headed by a magistrate and were subdivided into townships and villages (里, lǐ) in the same manner as in centrally administered territories of the Han dynasty.[24][45]

The reestablishment of the Changsha Kingdom under Liu Fa coincided with the abortive Rebellion of the Seven States and the subsequent drastic measures to limit the autonomy of kingdoms by Emperor Jing. In 145 BC, the vassal kingdoms were stripped of the right to appoint officials with salaries higher than 400 dan, which covered everyone from ministers in the royal court to county magistrates.[46] Furthermore, changes were made to the government hierarchy of kingdoms. A number of offices were abolished, including the royal secretary, minister of justice (廷尉, tíngwèi), minister of the royal clan (宗正, zōngzhèng), steward (少府, shǎofǔ), and court scholar (博士, bóshì).[47] Of particular importance was the abolishment of the steward, as the move deprived the kings of their fiscal control over the fief.[46] Many remaining offices were demoted in rank, and lesser officials were reduced in number.[47] The titles of the chancellor and tutor were shortened to simply xiàng (相) and fù (傅) to distinguish them from their imperial equivalents.[46] Later, in 8 BC, the court clerk was abolished and the chancellor took over his duties. By then, the kingdom's government structure had become almost indistinguishable from that of a commandery in all but name.[46][47]

Kings

Kings of Changsha[16]
Posthumous name Personal name Reigned from Reigned to Relationship
with predecessor
Name In Chinese Pinyin Name In Chinese Pinyin
Wu family
King Wen of Changsha 長沙文王 Chángshā Wén Wáng Wu Rui 吳芮 Wú Ruì 203 BC 202 BC
King Cheng of Changsha 長沙成王 Chángshā Chéng Wáng Wu Chen 吳臣 Wú Chén 202 BC 194 BC Son
King Ai of Changsha 長沙哀王 Chángshā Āi Wáng Wu Hui 吳回 Wú Huí 194 BC 187 BC Son
King Gong of Changsha 長沙共王 Chángshā Gòng Wáng Wu You 吳右 Wú Yòu 187 BC 179 BC Son
King Jing of Changsha 長沙靖王 Chángshā Jìng Wáng Wu Zhu 吳著 Wú Zhù 179 BC 157 BC Son
Liu family
King Ding of Changsha 長沙定王 Chángshā Dìng Wáng Liu Fa 劉發 Liú Fā 155 BC 128 BC
King Dai of Changsha 長沙戴王 Chángshā Dài Wáng Liu Yong 劉庸 Liú Yōng 128 BC 101 BC Son
King Qing of Changsha 長沙頃王 Chángshā Qīng Wáng Liu Fuqu 劉附朐 Liú Fùqú 101 BC 83 BC Son
King La of Changsha 長沙剌王 Chángshā Là Wáng Liu Jiande 劉建德 Liú Jiàndé 83 BC 50 BC Son
King Yang of Changsha 長沙炀王 Chángshā Yáng Wáng Liu Dan 劉旦 Liú Dàn 50 BC 48 BC Son
King Xiao of Changsha 長沙孝王 Chángshā Xiào Wáng Liu Zong 劉宗 Liú Zōng 45 BC 43 BC Brother
King Miu of Changsha 長沙繆王 Chángshā Miù Wáng Liu Luren 劉魯人 Liú Lǔrén 42 BC AD 6 Son
– Liu Shun 劉舜 Liú Shùn AD 6 AD 9 Son
– Liu Xing 劉興 Liú Xīng AD 25 AD 33 Son

Culture

Feiyi found in the tomb of Lady Dai.

Rice was the main staple food in Changsha, while wheat, barley, common and foxtail millet, and beans were also consumed.[48] Fish, many provided by fish farming, was one of the main types of non-staple food.[49] Mawangdui tombs, the early 2nd century BC burial complex of chancellor Li Cang and his family, is a particularly rich source of knowledge on the society of the kingdom. In the tombs, there were remnants of domesticated animals including pigs, cattle, sheep, dogs, and chickens and game animals and fowl including deer, hares, wild geese, Mandarin ducks, wild ducks, bamboo partridges, cranes, doves, magpies, owls, and sparrows.[50] The excavated bamboo tablets recorded an assortment of dishes, with descriptions of preparation by frying and deep frying, braising, boiling, and steaming as well as by seasoning and preserving. A selection of beers, made from wheat, millet, and rice, was also available.[51]

Changsha nobility dressed similarly to contemporary nobles in the Han Empire. The forms of ancient Chinese clothing usually found in the tombs of Changsha aristocrats were silk gauze undergarments (襌衣, dānyī) and long robes with elaborately woven patterns.[52] Men typically wore hats, while a number of hairstyles can be seen in contemporary paintings and sculptures of women.[53]

The earliest known paintings on fabric in China were unearthed from the Mawangdui tombs.[54] Among them, a 2-meter-long fēiyī (非衣, possibly meaning "flying garment")[55] in the tomb of Lady Dai is one of the finest examples of art in early China.[54] In the painting, Lady Dai was depicted in the center, accompanied by servants and surrounded by deities, mythological beasts, and symbols.[55][54] Several types of musical instruments were discovered in Changsha tombs. They include the earliest known example of a guqin, a form of Chinese zither.[56] Archaeologists also found the first surviving examples of two previously lost ancient Chinese musical instruments, a woodwind known as a yú (竽) and a 5-string instrument known as a zhù (筑).[57] Musical and dancing troupes consisting of dozens of performers were recorded in unearthed manuscripts.[58]

As seen in excavated manuscripts and artifacts, the Changsha elite practiced complicated incantations and ritual acts for the interaction with the spirit world. The calendrical system was incorporated into the religion, and Taiyi, the polar deity, was the central celestial deity.[59] An animistic pantheon was worshipped. In an iconographic image of Taiyi from Mawangdui, it was depicted with the Thunder Lord, the Rain Master (雨師, Yǔshī), and the Azure and Yellow Dragons, with explanatory texts on military fortunes associated with these deities.[60] A wide range of natural phenomena were connected with spirit powers, and instructions and devices on dealing with them have been found. These were among the religious elements that would later give rise to the Taoist religion.[59]

Science and Technology

Depiction of comets in the Tianwen Qixiang Za Zhan.

Some of the earliest texts on traditional Chinese medicine were discovered in the Mawangdui and Zhangjiashan tombs.[61] The largest of these finds is the Recipes for Fifty-two Illnesses (五十二病方, Wǔshí'èr Bìngfāng), which includes detailed treatments for specific illnesses. Two "cauterisation canons", namely the Cauterisation Canon of the Eleven Foot and Arm Channels (足臂十一脈灸經, Zúbì Shíyī Mài Jiǔjīng) and the Cauterisation Canon of the Eleven Yin and Yang Channels (陰陽十一脈灸經, Yīnyáng Shíyī Mài Jiǔjīng), provide important evidence about the concept of meridian channels in its infancy.[62] In addition, there are also texts on the philosophy and techniques of "nurturing life" (養生, yǎngshēng), covering practices from therapeutic gymnastics and dietetics to sexual cultivation.[62]

Two texts on astronomy and astrology, the Prognostications on the Five Planets (五星占, Wǔ Xīng Zhàn) and the Diverse Prognostications on Heavenly Patterns and Formations of Materia Vitalis (天文氣象雜占, Tiānwén Qìxiàng Zá Zhàn), were found in the Mawangdui tombs.[63] The former provided accurate observation data on the positions of planets over a 70-year period from 246 BC to 177 BC, and also elaborated on some astrological beliefs such as an astral-terrestrial correspondence, a mapping of astronomical features to those on the land.[64][65] The latter, likely a work by a Chu author of the Warring States period, included a collection of illustrations of astronomical and atmospheric features such as clouds, mirages, rainbows, stars and comets.[66][67]

Unearthed artifacts from Changsha noble tombs show advanced textile and dyeing techniques. The plain-colored gauze gown discovered in the Mawangdui tomb, for example, measures 128 cm long by 190 cm wide but weights only 49 grams in total.[68] The intact embroidered silk from Mawangdui show intricate patterns of swirling clouds, where more than 20 dyes were applied in the making of the diverse colors.[69] Glossily decorated lacquerware was used for a wide range of purposes, including dishes, furniture, and storage boxes.[70][71] Ironware had become available for agricultural and military application, and iron weapons and tools found in Changsha tombs include spades, pickaxes, daggers, spears, swords, and axes.[72]

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