Dai (Spring and Autumn period)

Dai
Constituent States of the Zhou Kingdom. Dai lies in the central north area.
Traditional Chinese代國
Simplified Chinese代国
Literal meaningState of Dai
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàiguó
Wade–GilesTai-kuo
The ruins of ancient Dai in Yu County, Hebei.
The ruins of ancient Dai in Yu County, Hebei.

Dai was a state which existed in northern Hebei during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. Its eponymous capital was located north of the Zhou Kingdom in what is now Yu County. It was apparently established by the people known to the ancient Chinese as the Baidi or "White Barbarians". They traded livestock and other goods between Central Asia and the Zhou states prior to their conquest by the Zhao clan of Jin.


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