The Dian Kingdom language was likely one of the Tibeto-Burman languages.
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11 Facts About Dian Kingdom
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The Dian Kingdom were gradually displaced and assimilated into Han Chinese culture as the Han dynasty expanded towards what is Yunnan.
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Dian Kingdom was annexed by the Han under the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in 109 BCE and the Yizhou commandery established.
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Emperor Wu sent Wang Ranyu to persuade the king of Dian Kingdom to submit, pointing out that many of the neighboring tribes had already been defeated.
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Dian Kingdom buried their kings at Shizhaishan, which was uncovered in 1954 near Shizhai Village in Jinning County, Yunnan.
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Sima Qian noted that the Dian Kingdom were one of only two local groups to have received an imperial seal, the other being Yelang.
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Largest tin deposits on the Eurasian continent are located on the Malay peninsula, and as such, the Dian Kingdom people were sophisticated metal workers, casting both bronze and iron.
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The Dian Kingdom cast bronze objects using both the piece mould method and the lost wax method.
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Dian Kingdom vessel depicting a horseman surrounded by four oxen being hunted by tigers.
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The bronze lids depicted the Dian Kingdom people engaged in everyday activities such as hunting, farming and weaving.
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The Dian Kingdom people dressed in tunics over short pants and wore their hair in topknots.
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