Historical Background
The people of Ancient Choson are recorded as Tung-i, eastern bowmen or eastern barbarians. They spread in Manchuria, the eastern littoral of China, areas north of the Yangtze River, and the Korean Peninsula. The eastern bowmen had a myth in which the legendary founder Tan-gun was born of a father of heavenly descent and a woman from a bear-totem tribe. He is said to have started to rule in 2333 B.C., and his descendants reigned in Choson, the land of morning calm, for more than a millennium.
When the Chou people pushed the Yin, the eastern bowmen moved toward Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula for better climatic conditions. They seem to have maintained unity, as Chinas great sages, Confucius and Mencius, praised their consanguineous order and the decorum of their society.
The eastern bowmen on the western coast of the Yellow Sea clashed with the Chou people during Chinas period of warring states. This led them to move toward southern Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula.
There were other tribes of eastern bowmen, Ye-Maek in the Manchurian area and Han on the Korean Peninsula, all belonging to the Tungusic family and linguistically belonging to the Altaic. When Yin collapsed, Kija, a subject of the Yin state, entered Tan-guns domain and introduced the culture of Yin around the 13th century B.C.
Then came the invasion of Yen in the northeastern sector of China, and Ancient Choson lost the territories west of the Liao River in the third century B.C. By this time iron culture was developing and warring states pushed the refugees eastward.
Among the immigrants, Wiman entered the service of Ancient Choson as military commander with a base on the Amnokkang (Yalu) River. He drove King Chun to the south and usurped power. But in 109 B.C. the Han emperor Wu-ti dispatched a massive invasion by land and sea to Ancient Choson in the estuary of the Liao River. Ancient Choson was defeated after two years and four Chinese provincial commands were set up in southern Manchuria and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. Not long after the establishment of the four commanderies, however, the Korean attack became fierce and the last of the commanderies, Lolang (Korean: Nangnang) was destroyed by Koguryo in A.D. 313.
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