Historyteller Jang

  Story 79. The Three Kingdoms of Northeast Asia   Episode 2. Wars between the Khitan (Liao), Song, and Jin Empires   The Song Dynasty was intent on recapturing the 16 prefectures ( 州 ) of Yanyun ( 䔳雲 ), which had been lost to the Liao Dynasty. The 16 prefectures( 州 )  of Yanyun correspond to present-day Beijing, Tianjin, northern Hebei Province, and northern Shanxi Province. Since ancient times, the Han Chinese of the Central Plains believed that the loss of the 16 prefectures of Yanyun would bring disaster to the Central Plains, and so they considered them the most important strategic point in the northeast.   In the fourth year of Tianbao (1120), after numerous negotiations, the two countries concluded a "maritime alliance( 海上之盟 )." Because Song envoys were blocked by the Liao overland route, and had to cross the Bohai Bay from present-day Shandong Province to enter the Jin court, the term "alliance at sea" emerged. Google, TV Tropes. Song ,Liao,J...

  Story 78. The Early Story of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, the Great Jin before the Qing Dynasty   Dr. Kwon, author of "Goguryeo-Balhae: Genghis Khan," focused his research on the relationship between Goguryeo-Balhae and Mongolia. Therefore, he focused his research on the descendants of Bo Hwal-ri, the youngest of the three sons of Geumhaeng ( 金幸 ), also known as the Golden Jar. He summarized shortly the key points only regarding his second son, Hambo ( 函普 ), the ancestor of the Jin and Qing dynasties, and his descendants. Thus, in Story 78 and the following, I will cite other historians' works to illustrate the story of the Jin Dynasty's founding. I will then present Dr. Kwon's intricate linguistic research, proving that the three sons of Jin Haeng, Ago-rae, Hambo, and Bo-hwa-ri, who appear under different names in different historical texts, and Chu-rukme-gen, Kubai-shi-re, and Tu-s-buda, who are recorded under different names, are the same three individuals ...