"Chaos" is related to two great political upheavals in ancient China, namely "Chaos" and "Eight Trough".

The "seven chaos" refers to the "seven chaos" in the early Western Han Dynasty, and the "eight evils" refers to the "eight chaos" in the Jin Dynasty, all of which are the products of the intensified struggle for imperial power.

The "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" and "Eight Kings Rebellion" had a great impact on the social economy at that time, and the lives of ordinary people were even more difficult. Therefore, later generations used "at sixes and sevens" to represent a state of chaos or disorder.

Chaos 7-The Chaos of the Seven Kingdoms

The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was a vassal rebellion that took place during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty in China.

After Han Jing ascended the throne, Chao Cuo, an adviser to the imperial court, proposed to weaken the power of the vassals and strengthen centralization. In the third year of Jingdi (before 154), Jingdi adopted Chao Cuo's "feudal policy of separatist regime" and successively issued imperial edicts to cut off the fiefs of Chu, Zhao and other vassal states.

At this time, Wu United Liu Cheng of Chu, Sun He of Liu Sui of Zhao, Bi Guang of Jinan, Liu Yin of Zichuan, Liu Xiongqu of Jiaodong and other imperial clan governors of Liu, and launched a rebellion in the name of "Jun Qing side". Because of Liang's persistence and the attack of the Han army led by Zhou Yafu, this chaos was put down within three months, which is the famous "Zhou Yafu Rebellion" in history.

Eight Bad Things-"Eight Kings Rebellion"

The rebellion of the Eight Kings was a civil strife caused by the royal family's struggle for the central government in the Western Jin Dynasty.

The unrest lasted for sixteen years and was divided into two stages: the first stage was from March to June in the first year of Yuankang (29 1), which lasted for three months; The second stage lasted for seven years, from the ninth year of Yuankang (299) to the first year of Guangxi (306).

Its core figures are Sima Liang, Sima Wei of Chu, Sima Lun of Zhao, Sima Zhou of Qi, Sima Yi of Changsha, Sima Ying of Chengdu, Sima Hao of Hejian and Sima Yue of Donghai. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more than eight kings of the Western Jin Dynasty who participated in this turmoil, but the main participants were eight, and the Book of Jin merged these eight kings into a series of biographies, so the history called this turmoil "the chaos of eight kings".