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=== Early life ===
Dae Joyeong was the first son of general [[Dae Jung-sang]], who was also known as Sari Geolgeol Jungsang ({{Korean|hangul=사리걸걸중상|hanja=舍利乞乞仲象|labels=no}}) or Dae Geolgeol Jungsang ({{Korean|hangul=대걸걸중상|hanja=大乞乞仲象|labels=no}}).

Historical sources give different accounts of Dae Joyeong's ethnicity and background.<ref name="w">{{cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/1804227 |author= Vovin, Alexander|chapter= Why Manchu and Jurchen Look so Un-Tungusic ?|title=Tumen jalafun jecen akū: Festschrift for Giovanni Stary's 60th birthday|editor=Juha Janhunenn |editor2=Alessandra Pozzi |editor3=Michael Weiers|publisher= Harrassowitz|year=2006|pages=255–266}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Richard |first1=Zgusta |title=The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time Precolonial Ethnic and Cultural Processes along the Coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait |date=2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-30043-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oToLCgAAQBAJ&q=Mohe+tribes+bohai&pg=PA141}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ahmerov.com/book_821_chapter_12_ISTORIJA_TUNGUSSKIKH_PLEMEN_MOKHEH_I_GOSUDARSTVA_BOKHAJJ.html |title=История тунгусских племен мохэ и государства Бохай |trans-title=The history of Mohé and Bohai Tungusic tribes |author1=Tsiporuha Mikhail Isaakovich |work=Покорение Сибири. От Ермака до Беринга |date=2017 |access-date=5 February 2019 |archive-date=13 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613014441/https://www.ahmerov.com/book_821_chapter_12_ISTORIJA_TUNGUSSKIKH_PLEMEN_MOKHEH_I_GOSUDARSTVA_BOKHAJJ.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Among the official dynastic history works, the ''[[New Book of Tang]]'' refers to Dae Joyeong and his state as [[Sumo Mohe]] (related to [[Jurchens]] and later [[Manchus]]) affiliated with [[Goguryeo]].<ref>''New Book of Tang'', Chapter 219: Bohai. 渤海、本粟末靺鞨附高麗者、姓大氏。</ref>{{sfn|Kim|2015|p=8}} The ''[[Old Book of Tang]]'' also states Dae's ethnic background as Mohe but adds that he was "高麗別種" (''gaoli biezhong'').<ref>''[[Old Book of Tang]]'', Original: 渤海靺鞨大祚榮者，本高麗別種也. [https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%88%8A%E5%94%90%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7199%E4%B8%8B Link]</ref> The term is interpreted as meaning "a branch of the Goguryeo people" by South and North Korean historians, but as "distinct from Goguryeo" by Japanese and Chinese researchers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=徐吉洙 |title=渤海は高句麗を引き継いだ |url=http://www.searchnavi.com/~hp/koguryo/balhe-30.htm |publisher=高句麗研究会}}</ref> The ''[[Samguk yusa]]'', a 13th-century collection of Korean history and legends, describes Dae as a Sumo Mohe leader. However, it gives another account of Dae being a former Goguryeo general, citing a now-lost Sillan record.<ref>''Samguk yusa'', Chapter 1, Section Mohe Bohai. 通典云，渤海，本栗未靺鞨。至其酋柞榮立國，自號震旦。 [...] 又新羅古記云，高麗舊將柞榮，姓大氏。</ref> Alexander Kim considers this unlikely since Goguryeo fell in 668 while Dae died in 719, and young men could not receive the rank of general.{{sfn|Kim|2011|p=297}}