Daxia , Ta-Hsia , or Ta-Hia ( Chinese : 大夏 ; pinyin : Dàxià ; literally: 'Great Xia') was apparently the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Tukhara or Tokhara : the main part of Bactria , in what is now northern Afghanistan , and parts of southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan .
7-535: Great Xia may refer to: Daxia , the name given in antiquity by the Han Chinese to Bactria Ming Xia , a Chinese dynasty Western Xia , an imperial dynasty of China Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms) , a dynastic state of Xiongnu Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Great Xia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
14-759: The Dayi ( Chinese : 大益 ; pinyin : Dayi ). Daxia is mentioned by, for instance, Chapter VIII (Xiao Kuang) of the Guanzi (7th Century BCE): "In the west [Duke Huan]... having passed through the valleys of the Taihang and Bier, took captive the chief of the Da Xia. Further to the west, he subjugated the Xi Yu of Liusha, and for the first time the Rong People of Qin were obedient." (Taihang and Bier are located along
21-630: The 3rd century BCE, to designate a kingdom in the far west – possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom – and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria. It is possible that "Daxia", in part, conflated or confused Tokhara with the country of the Dahae (on the south-eastern shores of the Caspian Sea), who were usually known in classical Chinese sources as
28-663: The Shanxi-Hebei border in China.) The reports of Zhang Qian are preserved in Shiji ("Records of the Great Historian") by Sima Qian in the 1st century BCE. They describe an important urban civilization of about one million people, living in walled cities under small city kings or magistrates . Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming as far as Southern China. By
35-464: The emperor learned of Dayuan , Daxia, Anxi , and the others, all states rich in unusual products whose people cultivated the land and made their living in much the same way as the Chinese. All these states, he was told, were militarily weak and prized Han goods and wealth. ( Shiji 123) These contacts immediately led to the dispatch of multiple embassies from the Chinese, initiating the development of
42-412: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Xia&oldid=1143319737 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daxia The name "Daxia" first appears in Chinese accounts from
49-641: The time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there was no longer a major king and the Bactrians were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi , who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus . Overall, Zhang Qian depicted a rather sophisticated but demoralized people who were afraid of war. Following these reports, the Chinese emperor Wudi was informed of the level of sophistication of the urban civilizations of Ferghana , Bactria and Parthia , and became interested in developing commercial relationships with them: Thus
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