闽越王郢 / Ying (Minyue king)

Overview

闽越王郢 / Ying is the Minyue ruler whose unauthorized attack on 南越 triggers a Han expedition and whose killing by his brother 余善 ends the immediate military crisis.

Current Profile

Hanji 256 presents Ying at the center of a coercive frontier crisis. After attacking Nanyue, he prepares the passes against forces sent by 汉武帝. Yu Shan and other Minyue elites judge continued resistance too costly, assign responsibility to Ying, and decide that surrendering his head may preserve their territory.

Yu Shan kills Ying and sends his head to 王恢. The Han army halts and withdraws, so Ying’s death substitutes for a full invasion in the episode’s sequence. Han Wudi later recognizes Ying’s uninvolved descendant 越繇王丑 to maintain ancestral sacrifice, preserving part of Ying’s lineage without restoring Ying’s rule.

Key Characteristics

• Minyue ruler who attacks Nanyue without prior Han authorization in the episode’s account.
• Defensive ruler who prepares difficult passes after learning that Han forces are approaching.
• Political target blamed by local elites for exposing Minyue to invasion.
• Brother killed by Yu Shan as an internal settlement offered to Han.
• Dynastic predecessor whose ritual line continues through Chou.

Evidence

• War trigger and defense: Hanji 256 says Ying attacks Nanyue and guards the approaches after Han mobilizes.
• Internal removal: Hanji 256 says Yu Shan and other elites make Ying’s death the proposed price of avoiding wider conquest.
• Dynastic afterlife: Hanji 256 says Han Wudi recognizes Chou as an uninvolved descendant responsible for ancestral rites.

Qualifications

The supplied transcript calls Ying “洛影,” and this page normalizes the identity from the event sequence. It does not establish his full reign, the scale or motive of the Nanyue attack, the legality of his relationship to Han, the exact fortifications, or whether all Minyue elites independently supported the killing. The account makes Ying the punitive target but does not supply his perspective on the conflict.

What Changed

• Created a bounded profile for the ruler whose attack, defense, killing, and dynastic afterlife structure the Minyue crisis.

Relationships

• 余善 - younger brother who kills Ying and offers his head to Han.
• 越繇王丑 - descendant recognized to continue Ying’s ancestral line.
• 闽越 - polity Ying rules before the internal killing and divided settlement.
• 南越 - polity whose attack triggers Han intervention.
• 汉武帝 - emperor whose expedition makes Ying’s removal the local survival proposal.
• 王恢 - commander who receives Ying’s head and stops advancing.