The mongols conquered the kingdom of Dali, establishing Yunnanxingsheng, causing the center of economy, culture and polics in the region to move to Zhongqing which even thesedays still remains as the center of Yunnan province. The Yuan empire's conque ...
The mongols conquered the kingdom of Dali, establishing Yunnanxingsheng, causing the center of economy, culture and polics in the region to move to Zhongqing which even thesedays still remains as the center of Yunnan province. The Yuan empire's conquest of Dali was not necessitated simply to conquer the Yunnan region, it was rather to initiate the conquest of Southern Sung, which was the most important task and the greatest goal. After the demise of Southern Sung, the Yunnan region was recognized an important base of militery operations that had grest potential for the Yuan empire to launch military campaigns into the neigboring contries such as Vietnam and Burma, thus the Yunan region acquired and demonstrated strategic importance in the South-western regison.
Since Yuan governed Yunnan mongolian Zong prince such as the prince Liang and the prince Yunnan became to be asigned to government positions conducting their duties of adminstration over Yunnan in parallel with Yunnanxingsheng. However, during laster years of Yuan the prince Liang eventually became to acquire complete command over Yunnan. On tracing back genealogy of the prince Yunnan and the prince Liang and examing patterns of hereditary transmission of power and governmental posions to descendant it can be learnde that the most the prince Liang were promoted leaving Yunnan. Therefore it could be inferred that mainly descendants of Bolad and Bazalawalemi, the last prince Liang immigrated to Jeju. Bazalawalemi, stubbornly defended Yunnan maintaining close relationship in loyalty to Northern Yuan.even after Taizu of Ming conquered central regions of China. When Taizu, fonder of Ming attacked Great capital, the prince Bai bai, a son of the prince Weishun was captured as a prisoner of wa Liang to surrender to Ming. Later he was sent to Yunnan with a mission to persuade the prince surrendering to Ming but ended in failure. Since then he stayed dwelling in Yunnan. After Yunnan was finally conquerd on the 13th year of Hong-wu, a part of mongolian Zong princes and a large number of Duan's family members.
Yuan had already established government offices on Tamla and dispatched a Darugachi as a head of the offices, directly controling the region. Furthermore under it's social and political polices Yuan maintained garrisons, also, had the exiles and ranchers of horses immigrate and dwell on Jeju. Because of these earlier activies before the immigration to Tamla. it could be presumed that the meta desandent of former Yuan did nto have exprinced difficulties in their daily living. Expecially, since the prince Bai bai was a figure whom Taizu dispated to Yunnan to persurade the prince Liang to surrender he was socially and economically treated better than the descendents of the prince Liang when the prince Bai bai immigrated to Jeju, together with the desendants the prince Liang. In some sense the prince Bai bai could be regarded as holding a position of managing, supervising and representing all mongolian descendants dwelling on Tamla at that time including the descendents of the prince Liang.
What is most important in this matter of the immigration during early period of Ming is that all the desandants of the prince Liang and all the family members of the prince Bai bai from Yunnan were directly related by blood to Kubilai. Early on during a time of Kubilai, Tamla had been rtilized as one of important ranches of horse breeding for mongolian Yuan loyal families.
On Jeju island there can be found family names of Liang, An, Jiang, Dui,Zhang and Yuan. All of them have Yunnan in common as their original ancestoral places. It can be further shown that the discendants of the prince Liang have the family name of Dui while the family members fo the prince Bai bai have the family name of Dui,and that the rest of family names have their ancestoral origions at Yunnan On Dongguoyudishenglan, family names from Yuan dynasty were differnetiated from the family names originating from Yunnan. This distincion was made to reflet special status and charateristics of Yunnan during late Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty.
In addition, evidence gained from this investigation revealed that dwelling places of the meta descendants of former Yuan is presumed to be established with Fahua temple as a base, including the temple's vicinities. The temple was
completely restored during the period of Yuan's governance over Tamla. The temple had a statue of Mitasanzun in its possession which was carved by highly skillful sculptors of Yuan. Also on Hujizhongchao is found at Heyuan village near the temple family name with their ancentral places in Greater Yuan can be noticed. Nowdays, these folk tales for example include such legends as a prince's tomb, a prince's valley and a housing site of the prince Liang. These can be supporting evidences illustrating nature, characteristics and circumstances surrounding the mongolian immigration.