Quanrong
Nation | Defunct
909 BCE to 819 CE
The Quanrong, also known as the Dog Rong, are an ethnic group active in the north western part of China during the Zhou (1046–221 BCE) and later dynasties.
Their language is classified as part of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family.Claiming ancestry from two white dogs, the Quanrong tribe worships a totem in the form of a white dog.
They are classified as a nomadic tribe of the Western Qiang people and are the sworn enemies of the Yanhuang tribe.
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The Zhou Dynasty, the political and military control of China by the Ji family, began in the eleventh century BCE when its founders overthrew the centuries long rule of the Shang dynasty.
Few records survive from this early period and accounts from the Western Zhou period cover little beyond a list of kings with uncertain dates.
When the twelfth and last king of the Western Zhou period replaces his wife with a concubine, the former queen's powerful father joins forces with Quanrong barbarians to sack the western capital of Haojing and kill the king in 770 BCE.
Most of the Zhōu nobles withdraw from the Wei River valley and the capital is reestablished downriver at the old eastern capital of Chengzhou near modern-day Luoyang.
This is the start of the Eastern Zhou period.