Da Yanlin (in Chinese), or Dae Yeon-rim (in Korean) (; ko, 대연림; ?-?) was a rebel in the

Liao dynasty The Liao dynasty (; Khitan: ''Mos Jælud''; ), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: ''Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur''), officially the Great Liao (), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yel� ...

and the founder of the Xingliao state.

Biography

Da Yanlin was a descendant of the

Balhae Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It wa ...

royal family as the 7th-generation direct descendant of Dae Jo-yeong, who was the founder of Balhae. He entered the Liao army at an unknown age and was eventually assigned to the Eastern Capital,

Liaoyang Liaoyang () is a prefecture-level city of east-central Liaoning province, China, situated on the Taizi River. It is approximately one hour south of Shenyang, the provincial capital, by car. Liaoyang is home to Liaoning University's College of ...

, as a general. While serving as a general of the Liao dynasty, Da Yanlin gathered people of Balhae origin, and eventually established the state Xingliao in the year 1029 AD. Da Yanlin declared himself the Tianxing Emperor (天興皇帝), and proclaimed the

era name A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin ''regnum'' meaning kingdom, rule. Regnal years considered the date as an ordinal, not a cardinal number. For example, a monarch could have a first year of rule, a second year o ...

"Tianqing" (天慶). Xingliao gathered the attention of numerous Balhae people and allied itself with

Jurchens Jurchen (Manchu: ''Jušen'', ; zh, 女真, ''Nǚzhēn'', ) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking peoples, descended from the Donghu people. They lived in the northeast of China, later known as Manchu ...

and

Goryeo Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unifica ...

, but was conquered in 1030 AD when the Liao dynasty sent an army to conquer and destroy the state. Xingliao and its Jurchen and Goryeo allies were defeated by a pincer attack led by Punu.

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{{Reflist Balhae people Founding monarchs Liao dynasty rebels

Biography

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