Pugu or Bogu was an ancient civilization or

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around the mouth of the

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History

The Pugu are recorded as existing during the

Shang The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...

and were counted among the " Eastern Barbarians" or ''Dongyi'' of Qingzhou. They occupied the shore of the

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around present-day Binzhou and

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, an area which the silt deposition from the present course of the

has since made miles inland. In alliance with the Shang prince Wu Geng, Pugu joined the ''Dongyi'' of Yan (, near present-day Qufu) and Xu in the Huai valley in opposing Shang's replacement by the Zhou after the Battle of Muye. This insurrection joined with the

Rebellion of the Three Guards The Rebellion of the Three Guards (), or less commonly the Wu Geng Rebellion (), was a civil war, instigated by an alliance of discontent Zhou princes, Shang loyalists, vassal states and other non-Zhou peoples against the Western Zhou governmen ...

within Zhou itself, opposing the regency of the

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BC. The Duke undertook a successful campaign across the

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, defeating Wu Geng and forcing the submission of the opposing Yi. Pugu's area was granted to the minister

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as the fief of Qi. The ''

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'' record that during the Duke of Zhou's expedition the "royal troops... attacked Yan and destroyed Pugu". The word used () means "destroy" and even implies "extermination". This was, however, patently hyperbolic since "belligerents" required a combined response from Qi, Lu, and Zhou ten years later and the Pugu are again said to have been "destroyed" in the autumn three years after that.. During the reign of King Yi, Duke Hu moved the Qi capital to the former site of Pugu. This prompted the residents of the former capital

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under another member of his house, who defeated him in battle and restored the former capital.

Legacy

Its name survived as

Putai Budai ( zh, c=布袋, p=Bùdài; ko, 포대, Podae; ja, 布袋, Hotei; vi, Bố Đại) was a Chinese monk who is often identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism. With the spread of Chan Buddhism, he also came to b ...

and Putai County as late as the 20th century, although the former is now the subdistrict of Pucheng in Binzhou and the latter has merged with Boxing County.

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