The division of the three families into Jin is an idiom that refers to the division of the Jin state by the princes of Han, Zhao, and Wei.
The Kingdom of Tang was originally after the ancient emperor Tang Yao.
One day, King Cheng of Zhou, the son of King Ji fa of Zhou Wu, and his younger brother Shu Yu were playing in the courtyard together, and King Cheng casually plucked a sycamore leaf from a tree and handed it to Shu Yu and said, "I have sealed you as Tang Guohou, as evidenced by this leaf."
This was originally a joke between the two children, however, every word said by the ancient Tianzi would be recorded in the history books, and it was not possible to rebel, which was called "no joke".
Shu Yu grew up to really become the monarch of the Tang Kingdom (present-day southern Shanxi Province), known as "Tang Shu Yu".
After Shu Yu became monarch, Yao's descendants migrated from the Tang state to the state of Du (in present-day southeastern Xi'an, Shaanxi).
After Shu Yu's son Xie Fu succeeded to the throne, because the Tang state had Jinshui, the name of the country was changed to "Jin".
Shanxi's abbreviation "Jin" comes from this way.
In 633 BC, Jin Wengong established three armies, each with a general and a general, one in each army, in order of the General of the Middle Army, the General of the Middle Army, the General of the Upper Army, the General of the Upper Army, the General of the Lower Army, and the One of the Lower Army, which was the "Three Armies and Six Secretaries".
Among them, the Chinese army will be zhengqing and rule the Jin state. Liu Qing went out to be in charge of the military and political affairs of the Jin Dynasty, becoming the earliest cabinet system in China.
Liuqing adopted a hereditary system, mainly controlled by eleven clans, including the Fox clan, the Xian clan, the Hao clan, the Xu clan, the Luan clan, the Fan clan, the Zhongxing clan, the Zhi clan, the Han clan, the Zhao clan, and the Wei clan, and they took turns to govern in accordance with the principle of "long death and second compensation".
More than a dozen generations before and after the Liuqing assisted the Duke of Jin in "honoring the king and defending The King" and defending the Chinese civilization, which is the true source of the Chinese civilization, so there is a saying that "the Chinese civilization looks at the Spring and Autumn, and the Spring and Autumn righteousness looks at the Jin State".
The internal contradictions and changes in the Six Qings also created the replacement of the Five Hegemons in the Spring and Autumn Period, during which the enmity and righteousness and hatred fluctuated, and the merger and struggle was fierce.
By the time of the Jin Dynasty, the six secretaries of the Han, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Fan, and Zhonghang clans, whose power was constantly growing, were constantly falling in love with each other.
Later, Zhao destroyed the Fan and Zhongxing clans, and then joined forces with Han and Wei to destroy the Zhi clan.
At this point, the Jinguo Gongfu was already extinct in name only.
In 403 BC (the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou), the three families of Han Qian, Zhao Yuan, and Wei Si of the Jin Dynasty established themselves as princes and divided the Jin state. King Weilie of Zhou had no choice but to appoint the three families as princes. As a result, the three kingdoms of Korea, Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin.
In Sima Guang's chronicle Zizhi Tongjian, this event is listed as the opening chapter: "In the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou, he initially appointed the Jin dynasty physician Wei Si, Zhao Yuan, and Han Qian as princes..."
In 376 BC, Han, Zhao, and Wei deposed the Duke of Jing of Jin, migrated to the Duan clan (present-day Qinshui County, Jin), and divided up the remaining land of the Jin dynasty.
The three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei are also collectively known as the "Three Jins", which is the origin of the "Three Jins".
In Chinese history, the "three branches of the Jin Dynasty" have epoch-making significance and are regarded as the watershed at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the beginning of the Warring States.
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