Welcome back my friends, Los Lomont-Gummery here back again with another China history podcast you're getting on Provinces Part 2 for you

Nobody complained or anything, but there were lots of Chinese names and terms last episode way more than usual

And I'm guessing there's gonna be just as many today plus names from part one they get a mention here too

So if this is leaving you dazed and confused

Head over to the website at teacup.media and you'll see a listing in PDF format of

Everything you might want to know pinyein Chinese and English all in one place and you could download it too

Last time in part one we looked at the earliest kingdoms that ruled in Yunnan and their ties to China from the Zhou to the Tang

We looked at the Dien Kingdom centered around present-day couldn't mean as well as the Dali-based

Tuan Man and Nanchao kingdoms. It was a long hard-scrabble period between the 8th and 9th centuries between Nanchao, Tibet, and Tang China

Alliances broken alliances, military campaigns and battles all three ultimately wore each other down to the bone

And a high price was paid for choosing this antagonistic alternative to living together in peace and harmony

The transition from the bloody end of Nanchao to the founding of the Dali kingdom in 937

Had a period of three regimes one long and two short that ran consecutively in that northwest part of Yunnan

Song Dynasty and other official historians preferred to

sweep these short-lived regimes under the rug and build a bridge directly from Nanchao straight to Dali

But this all happened and let's quickly review it

The Kingslayer who ended Nanchao was one of their own a noble named Zheng Maixi

He took it upon himself to overthrow the royal mong family of Nanchao

Going back to Xin new law these Nanchao kings had all been surnamed mong

Zheng Maixi put the whole family to the sword murdered 800 of them in a bloody coup

Killed the final Nanchao monarch and you served the throne and with the mong side of the way

Zheng Maixi founded

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