At the time of the fall of the Liang Dynasty, Northern Zhou and Northern Qi in the north were still in opposition, so Jiang Zuo continued to change dynasties. The new dynasty that replaced Liang was Chen, built by Chen Baxian.
Before his career, Chen Ba first served as the township's lisi, and then to Jianye as an oil depot official. At that time, the likes of the Ryes and the oil depot were actually the so-called subordinate officials. This kind of subordinate official was essentially a special service household, mixed with the laborers at that time, and had a very low social status. However, chen Baxian had "read military books and practiced martial arts" since he became an adult, and received praise from Xiao Wei, the new Yu Hou. When Xiao Wei was serving as the Assassin of Guangzhou, Chen Baxian joined the army and began to conquer in the southwest, making many military achievements, and was given the title of Gaoyao Taishou and Overseer of the Seven Counties. After Hou Jing's rebellion, Chen Baxian assisted Xiao Bo in the town of Guangzhou, and the latter ordered Baxian to supervise Sixing Commandery (司興郡, in modern Shaoguan, Guangdong). In the first month of the first year of Dabao's reign (550), he led an army to discuss Hou Jing and entered Nankang, and in June of the following year, he marched north along ganshui and sent envoys to Jiangling to persuade him to advance, and Xiao Xuan gave him the title of "History of The Assassination of Eastern Yangzhou, and comprehended the history of Ji Taishou and Yuzhang Nei". In February of the third year of Dabao (552), he marched east with Wang Sheng's army, and after Pinghou Jinghou, the military town of Jingkou. In November of the same year, the Western Wei army attacked Jiangling City, and Emperor Yuan was captured. Wang Monk argued that Northern Qi wanted to send Xiao Yuanming, the Marquis of Zhenyang, back to Northern Qi. Chen Ba attacked and killed him first, restored Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, and took charge of the imperial government himself, and in the second year of Taiping (557), Emperor Jing of Liang ascended the throne, Chen Chaojian, and the history called Chen Baxian Emperor Chen Wu.
Within three years of Emperor Chen's reign as emperor, his main energy was focused on quelling opposition forces such as Wang Lin and rebellions by Xiong Tanlang. In June of the third year of Yongding (559), Emperor Wu of Chen died of illness, because the crown prince Chen Chang was not in Western Wei at the time of the fall of Jiangling, and was in Chang'an, which was already Northern Zhou, and Emperor Wu frequently sent envoys to ask for his return, but "the Zhou people did not send him". Therefore, the general Hou Andu Banshi, together with Emperor Wu's nephew Chen Beiju the Prince of Linchuan, returned to Jiankang. On that day, Chen Bei, the emperor, took the throne as Emperor Wen of Chen. Chen Chang had no great use for northern Zhou at this time, and was sent back in February of the following year, and drowned on the way back to the river.
By the time of the Chen Dynasty, the territory was basically limited to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Basin south of the Yangtze River, and it was impossible to make a unified plan under normal circumstances, so it was already a good political situation to be able to maintain social stability in such a territory. Because Emperor Wen of Chen "started from hardships and knew the sufferings of the people", he was able to govern the country conscientiously, so that "seeing good as a buddha, employing people as oneself, being courteous and thrifty, and being diligent to help", it was not easy for a monarch to do so.
Tiankang died in April of the first year of Tiankang (566) and was succeeded by the crown prince Chen Bozong. However, Emperor Bozong was "benevolent and weak", and during the tenth day, he "took the general of the Hussars, Sikong, the Assassins of Yangzhou, and the New Shang Shu Ling AnCheng Wang Huan as the Great General of the Hussars, and entered the position of Situ, Lu Shangshu, and DuDu of various Chinese and foreign militaries", and the power fell to Chen Hao. Chen Was the younger brother of Emperor Wen and the uncle of Emperor Bozong of Chen. Such a political trend would naturally provoke a reaction, and Zhongshu made Liu Shizhi, the Right Guard general Han Zigao, the Southern Yuzhou Assassin Shi Yu Xiaoqing, and the Xiangzhou Assassin Shi Huajiao oppose it one after another. After quelling these rebellions, in November of the second year of Guangda (568), the empress dowager intervened, causing Chen Bozong to give way to Chen Huan, the former known as Emperor Chen and the latter Emperor Xuan.
In March of the fifth year of Taijian (573), when the political situation at the end of Northern Qi was in turmoil, Emperor Xuan of Chen sent Wu Mingwei to unify the Northern Expedition of 100,000 people, and by the end of the year, the counties of Huainan Were obtained, which was the last successful partial Northern Expedition of the Southern Dynasty. In the ninth year of Taijian's Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Xuan wanted to take Xu and Yan prefectures, and ordered Wu Minghui to march, and Shangshu Mao Xi objected: "Huaizuo Xinping, Bian Hu Weiyi." The Zhou clan began to swallow the state of Qi, and it was difficult to fight with the front, so it was difficult to exhaust the soldiers with shortcomings and deepening. And abandon the work of the boat, the place where the car is ridden, the long is short, not the Wu people. Emperor Xuan did not listen, and the Chen army won first and then lost at Lüliang (in present-day southeast of Xuzhou, Jiangsu), the entire army was destroyed, and Wu Minghui was captured. By the end of Taijian's eleventh year, the Zhou army had attacked the city in Huainan, and the yangtze river was bounded by the north and south. Taijian died in the first month of the fourteenth year of Taijian, and the crown prince Chen Shubao took the throne, that is, the last emperor of the Southern Period, Chen Hou.
The Chen clan began in the cold, and at that time the Southern Dynasty was still a society dominated by door valves, so as an imperial family, not only vigorously revered Confucianism and Buddhism, but also tried to enter the mainstream of culture, such as Emperor Wen", "pay attention to the history of the scriptures, act elegantly, and follow the ritual law when making times.". In its third generation, there were many famous scholars, such as Chen Bomao, who was "studious and humble corporal", and "who was greatly courteous and grassy, and even won the law of the right army"; Chen Bozhi "has a bureau of instruments, a history of knowledge" and so on. Having such an effort as a royal family will of course lead to the entire cultural cause. Chen Hou's attainment in literature and art was at the highest level at that time, and more importantly, as an emperor, "the post-lord heir, Yashang literary and artistic, and the study of art were all gathered." Every courtier who is neglectful and offers praises to himself, who has a resignation, is rewarded with a divine pen, and his knighthood is added, and he thinks of himself as a gentleman, and he knows himself and encourages himself." Therefore, although the Chen Dynasty did not exist for a long time, the cultural talents that emerged were a generation of talents: such as the historians Gu Yewang and Yao Cha, the literary scholars Jiang Zong and Xu Ling, the scribes Shen Wen'a, Zhang Yan, and Zhou Hongzheng, and the Buddhist scholars Zhenzhen and Zhizhi.
Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty criticized him for "fanning the wind of sexual immorality." Of course, this is not a good emperor, but it can unite the clan office, appoint Yuan Xian, Xiao Maha and other old ministers, and do not kill innocents indiscriminately, the so-called "copywriting bookkeeper, Xian Wei Xiao official" is just a continuation of the Cold Man's control machine, compared with many emperors at that time, at least not to lose the middle and lower. The biggest problem is that he is the king of the subjugated country, but if he changes to a middle and upper king, the strength of a small country, and the capture of a big country, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the same fate.
In 589 AD, the Sui army crossed the river in a big way, the army entered Jiankang, Chen Shubao was captured, Chen died, and the Southern Dynasty ended. After entering the Sui Dynasty, Lord Chen Hou pretended to be confused with Liu Chan's wisdom, and spent his whole life, and Chen's disciples were able to "guard the slaughter and spread all over the world", which is rare in the history of the fall of the country.