A term referring to the Non-Chinese inhabitants of the southeast and far south of China. They are thought to be Austro-Asiatic people, relatives to and ancestors of the modern Vietnamese. The southernmost Yue are also written Yue 粵, a character that is an alternative name of the city of Guangzhou and the province Guangdong. During the Spring and Autumn period (Chunqiu 春秋) the Yue in the area of Mount Guiji 會稽 (modern Shaoxing 紹興/Zhejiang) founded the kingdom of Yue 越 that was able to conquer the neighboring kingdom of Wu 吳 (also Non-Chinese, capital around modern Suzhou 蘇州/Jiangsu) but was vanquished by the state of Chu 楚 in 306. Yue people settling the north of modern Jiangsu were called Yang-Yue 揚越, the other many tribes were subsumed under the term Baiyue 百越 “The hundred Yue”, Yue tribes more to the west and south were called Oumin 甌閩 (living in Zhejiang, Fujian), Nanyue 南越 (Guangdong), Xiou 西甌 (Guangxi), and Luoyue 雒越 (Fujian). The territory of modern Fujian was conquered by Qin 秦 and later by Han 漢, but was never really controlled by the Chinese bureaucracy. The Yue chieftains Wuzhu 無諸 and Yao 搖 were kings of the area of Fujian in a realm called Ouluo 甌雒. The mountainous territory of modern Guangxi is inhabited by Non-Chinese tribes until today. At the begin of Han, Zhao Tuo 趙佗 founded the empire of Southern Yue (Nanyue 南越) in the area of Guangdong that was autonomous from the Han court until 112 BC. Emperor Han Wudi 漢武帝 conquered these areas as well as the north of modern Vietnam (Chinese Yuenan 越南, “The South of the Yue”) and installed Chinese commanderies (jun 郡). Although many Yue tribes still roamed the now unified territory of China, and appear in the historical sources until the end of Han, there are only few Yue people left in China today (e.g. Palyu “Lai”, Bugan “Hualuo or Huazu”, Bit, Bulang, Hu, Kemu, Khuen, Wa etc.). Their main heritage is northern Vietnam, an area that was settled by the Yue when they withdrew from the Chinese pressure.