Crusade against Dong Zhuo (190)
In order to deal with the Yellow Turban Army, the imperial court delegated the power to local officials to form warlords. Among them, Dong Zhuo controlled the court, and the Eighteenth Route princes with Yuan Shao as their ally were on a crusade, but Dong Zhuo threatened Tianzi to move the capital to Chang'an, and was later killed by lü Bu, the righteous son. The coalition forces broke up in internal strife and divided the forces.
Liu Beiren Xuzhou Mu (194)
Tao Qian was beaten by Cao Cao for help from Liu Bei, liu bei came to help, and Tao Qian handed Xuzhou over to Liu Bei before he died.
Holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes (196)
Cao Cao welcomed the emperor and gained political superiority in holding tianzi hostage to the princes. Since then, the power has returned to Cao, and the Han family has no real name.
Battle of Guandu (200)
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao competed for control of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the two sides confronted each other at Guandu. Xu You jumped from Yuan Shao to Cao Cao and informed cao of the location of the granary, and Cao Cao attacked the granary at night and defeated Yuan Jun.
Sun Quanba Jiangdong (200-252)
At the age of 19, Sun Quan took over his father Sun Jian and his brother Sun Cejiye and became a prince of the party.
Sangu Maolu(207)
Liu Bei followed Xu Shu's advice to find Zhuge Liang, and after three visits Zhuge Liang finally came out of the mountain and immediately formulated the Longzhong Pair.
Battle of Chibi (208)
After Cao Cao unified the north, he sent troops south, and Sun Quan sent Zhou Yu and Liu Bei to jointly resist Cao Cao, and finally defeated Cao's army with fire. After the war, Cao Cao retreated to the Central Plains, Sun Quan occupied Jiangdong, and Liu Bei rose to gradually occupy Jingzhou, laying a new situation for the establishment of the Three Kingdoms.
Liu Bei into Shu (211)
Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou, greeted Liu Bei, and Liu Bei personally led a large army into Yizhou. Later, Liu Bei launched a war to take Yizhou.
Battle of Hanzhong (217-219)
Liu Bei and Cao Cao competed for Hanzhong, but eventually Cao Cao gave up, and Liu Bei established himself as the King of Hanzhong and formally established the foundation.
Battle of Fancheng (219)
Guan Yu's Northern Expedition and the flooding of Fancheng caused Cao Cao heavy losses. Cao Cao wooed Sun Quan, who sent Lü Meng to cross the river in white clothes to secretly attack Jingzhou, and Guan Yu defeated Maicheng and was killed.
Cao Pi usurpers of the Han Dynasty (220)
Cao Cao died shortly after, and Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, forcing Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate. Cao Pi proclaimed the Emperor of Han to establish the State of Wei, and the Han Dynasty collapsed.
Founding of Shu Han (221)
Liu Bei declared himself emperor in Chengdu after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, and the Shu Han regime was formally established.
Battle of Yiling (221-222)
Liu Bei wanted to avenge Guan Yu's conquest of Eastern Wu, but Before the war Zhang Fei was accidentally killed, and shu Han suffered heavy losses in this battle, and Liu Bei died of illness soon after.
Liu Beituoguo (223)
Liu Bei died of illness and was left alone with Zhuge Liang on his deathbed. Crown Prince Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, and Zhuge Liang took power.
Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition (228-234)
Cao Pi fell ill and died, and Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to carry out the Northern Expedition. The Shu army won a partial victory and weakened the Cao family's power, but failed to capture strategic points, and eventually Zhuge Liang died of illness.
Sun Wujian (229)
Eastern Wu defeated Cao Xiu, the King of Wu, Sun Quan, took the throne, and the Sun Wu Dynasty was established.
Sima Shi's dictatorship (249-265)
The Cao family's power gradually weakened, and Sima Yi's military merit family gradually grew, and eventually swept the Wei state's power.
Fall of the Shu Han Dynasty (263)
The State of Wei attacked Shu, Liu Chan surrendered, and Shu Han perished.
Establishment of the Jin Dynasty (265)
After Sima Zhao's death, Sima Yan forced Wei to take the throne, and Wei died. Sima Yan immediately became emperor and changed the name of the country to Jin, which was called Western Jin in history. His grandson Wu died in the Western Jin Dynasty.
During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many talents, and later generations often remembered the heroes of that time. In the literary poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties, there were many works with the theme of the Three Kingdoms, and the folk art and popular literature of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties made the deeds of the Three Kingdoms deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Among them, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" created by Luo Guanzhong in the Ming Dynasty has become one of the four famous works. To this day, the famous people and events of the Three Kingdoms are still familiar.
Establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty (265)
Sima Yan forced Emperor Wei to abdicate and changed Wei to Jin, known in history as the Western Jin Dynasty.
Rebellion of the Eight Kings (291-306)
Sima Yan died of illness and Emperor Hui succeeded to the throne, Emperor Hui was incompetent, and the kings of the clan rebelled one after another, and internal turmoil was turbulent. Eight royal families participated, which lasted 16 years and seriously damaged society. Wuhu took advantage of the void and frequently launched plunder.
Yiguan Nandu(316)
Emperor Yuan of Jin avoided chaos and crossed the river and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang (present-day Nanjing), and the Central Plains clan followed it to the south, known in history as "Yiguan Nandu". With this as the demarcation point, the former is called the Western Jin Dynasty and the later is called the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Wuhu Sixteen Kingdoms (304–439)
The north became the stage of the Hu people and began a civil war, and the Wuhu established sixteen larger states. Among them, the Xiongnu established the Han State, and the Qiang clan established the Former Qin.
Establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317)
After the southern crossing of the crown, Sima Rui declared himself emperor, pardoned the world, and changed to Yuan Daxing.
Battle of Shuishui (383)
Former Qin forces unified the north, and the Qin king Jian Jian launched an attack on the Jin, but the Jin army won a complete victory. The Former Qin regime collapsed and the north split. The infighting in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was unable to recover the Central Plains and continued the confrontation between the north and the south.
Establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386)
Wuhu Zhongxianbei gradually became stronger in infighting, and Tuoba Jue was called the King of Wei, with Wei as the national name, and the history as Northern Wei.
Liu Yudaijin(420)
Liu Yu, a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, deposed the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established himself as emperor, with the state name Song and the historical name of southern Song. Since then, the south has successively experienced the Song Qi Liang Chen Four Dynasties, collectively known as the Southern Dynasty.
Although the Jin Dynasty was a period of decline in Chinese culture since the end of the Han Dynasty, there were also many new developments. The culture of the two Jin Dynasties is more diverse, and it is an era of cultural creation, conflict and integration. The grassland culture of the frontier peoples and the Chinese culture of the Jin Dynasty gradually carried out cultural exchanges and ethnic integration.
Liu Yudaijin(420)
Liu Yu, a powerful minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, deposed the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established himself as emperor with the state name Song. Since then, the south has experienced four dynasties of Song Qi, Liang and Chen, collectively known as the "Southern Dynasty".
Taiwu Destroys Buddha(446)
Due to the rapid development of Buddhist power, the lack of military manpower, Tuoba launched a campaign to destroy Buddhism, and the Northern Buddhist forces declined.
Establishment of Southern Qi (479)
The Southern Dynasty Song Xiangguo Xiao Daocheng usurped the throne and the Song dynasty died. Xiao Daocheng was the emperor, the state name qi, and the history was called southern qi.
Emperor Xiaowen's Reforms (494)
Emperor Xiaowen further Sinicized on the basis of Empress Feng's reforms, which was conducive to the great integration of the people of all ethnic groups and played a positive role in social and economic development.
Establishment of the Liang Dynasty (502)
The decadent rule of the Southern Dynasty Qi lost the hearts of the people, and Xiao Qibing overthrew the Southern Dynasty Qi as emperor, and the state name was Daliang, and Qi died.
Six Towns Uprising (523)
The famine in the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty was rejected to open a warehouse and was refused to launch an uprising, which opened the prelude to the great uprising of the people of all ethnic groups in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Northern Wei Split (534)
Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai each set up puppet emperors and divided them into Eastern and Western Wei.
Hou Jing's Rebellion (548)
Hou Jingmou rebelled against house arrest emperor Wu of Liang and established himself as emperor and changed the name of the state to Han, but was defeated and killed. Since then, the territory of the Southern Dynasty has been greatly reduced, and the situation of the north being strong and the south being weak is difficult to reverse.
Establishment of Northern Qi (550)
Gao Yang replaced the Eastern Wei dynasty and changed the name of the state to Qi, which was historically known as Northern Qi.
Northern Zhou Dynasty (557)
Yuwen Jue replaced the Western Wei Dynasty and changed the name of the state to Zhou, which was called Northern Zhou in history.
Establishment of the Chen Dynasty (557)
Emperor Jing of Liang wanted to take the throne of Chen Ba, and Chen Ba first called the emperor chen the name of the state.
Northern Zhou destroys Northern Qi (577)
The Northern Zhou general Yang Jian went out to destroy Northern Qi, and Northern Zhou unified the north.
Establishment of the Sui Dynasty (581)
Yang Jian secretly amassed strength for usurping the throne and forced Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou to let Yang Jian, and Yang Jian changed the name of the country to Sui.
Sui Dynasty Chen (589)
Emperor Yang Jian of sui ordered Yang Guangnan to conquer the State of Chen, unify the Central Plains, and end the chaotic period of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Past four hundred years.
During this period, there was no particularly powerful state, no feats of territorial expansion, and a state of chaos from beginning to end. But it was the special environment of the Southern and Northern Dynasties that gave birth to unexpected changes for China at that time. The great integration of the nationalities of the Northern Dynasty completely changed people's living habits and culture. This era, which is difficult to call a prosperous era, is also an indispensable part of history.