In the 20th year of Kaihuang(600), Emperor Wen deposed Heir-Prince Yang Yong and conferred that tit...

By the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chinese had experienced north-south separation f...

In the late Sixteen States period, an underdeveloped ethnic minority _ the Tuoba of Xianbei—g...

Chen Baxian, the founder of the Chen Dynasty, was born in a humble family of Changcheng WuXing ( no...

Xiao Yan, the founder of Liang, was a master of poems and was appointed the Garrison Commander of Y...

Spanned only 23 years, Qi was the shortest kingdom among the four others existed in the Southern Dy...

In 420, Liu Yu dethroned the Emperor of Jin and declared himself as the Emperor of Song, which was ...

The Liu Song, the Southern Qi, the Xiao Liang and the Chen existed in the south successively. All e...

Although resting content with retaining sovereign in the south, rulers of the Eastern Jin did plan ...

Failed to earn himself credits as a member of royal family before coming to power, together with hi...

After the Western Jin was vanquished, the Han government withdrew to the east of the Yangtze River.

Ever since the Eastern Han Dynasty, ethnic minorities in northwestern and northern areas kept migra...

The fierce striving for power within the court divided the rule of the Western Jin Court.

The Western Jin Dynasty was a state mainly composed of privileged landlords.

The Sima family were a celebrated, old-established, and wide-ranging family from Henei (now Wen Cou...

With the acquisition of the territory in the far south, Sun Quan obtained a source of notable wealt...

One person worth mentioning in the history of Shu-Han is Guan Yu, one of Liu Bei，s sworn brothers...

The founder of Shu-Han，Liu Bei，the descendant of Han Jingdi ’ s son Liu Sheng, came from Zh...

In 208 Cao Cao led his army to march south, seized Prefect Jingzhou (now Hubei province) and posed ...

During the period of the Eastern Han, transmarine transport expanded, which led to a close relation...