Inuyō - Kenjū

A type of Western people (Xirong) from ancient China. They were also called Ji Rong, Dog Yi, and Kun Yi. In oracles unearthed at the Yin Ruins, they are written as Dog Hou and Dog Fang. There is also a theory that they are the same species as the Ghost Fang and Wei Li from the Yin and Zhou dynasties. They are said to have lived near the Zhou people, and were defeated by King Wen and King Mu. They began to be active again when the power of the Zhou royal family declined, and King You at the end of the Western Zhou dynasty was destroyed by the army of Shen Hou and the Dog Rong. During the Eastern Zhou period, the Dogrong advanced between the Jing and Wei rivers and threatened the Zhou Dynasty, but after being conquered by the Qin Dynasty, they gradually declined and are thought to have disappeared around the middle of the 8th century BC, at the beginning of the Spring and Autumn period.

[Akira Utsugi]

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中国古代の西方民族（西戎）の一種。畎戎(けんじゅう)、犬夷(けんい)、昆夷(こんい)などともよばれた。殷墟(いんきょ)出土の卜辞(ぼくじ)には犬侯、犬方と記されている。殷・周時代の鬼方、玁狁(けんいん)と同種であるという説もある。周族の付近にいたらしく、文王や穆(ぼく)王に討伐されたと伝えられる。周王室の力が衰えるとふたたび活動を始め、西周末の幽王は申侯と犬戎の軍によって滅ぼされた。東周時代に犬戎は涇水(けいすい)、渭水(いすい)の間に進出して周室を脅かしたが、秦(しん)の討伐を受けてしだいに衰え、紀元前8世紀中ごろ、春秋時代の初めに滅亡したと考えられる。

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