Second, the details of each period:
1, 770 BC-476 BC in the Spring and Autumn Period
The Spring and Autumn Period, referred to as the Spring and Autumn Period for short, refers to the period from 770 BC to 476 BC, belonging to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhou Wang's influence weakened, and the princes fought with each other. Qi Huangong, Jin Wengong, Song Xianggong, Qin Mugong, and Chu Zhuangwang have successively dominated, and they are known as the Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period (another way of saying it is that the Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period are Qi Huangong, Jin Wengong, Chu Zhuangwang, Wu Wang He Lu and Yue Wang Gou Jian).
2. The Warring States Period from 475 BC to 22 BC1year.
The warring States period, referred to as the warring States period, refers to the period from 475 BC to 22 BC1year. In the history of China, from the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the unification of the Central Plains by Qin Dynasty, countries fought endlessly, so it was called the Warring States Period by later generations. The name of "Warring States" is taken from the Warring States Policy edited and annotated by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty.
3. The Three Kingdoms from 220 to 280.
The Three Kingdoms (220 -280) is a historical period connecting the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, which is divided into three regimes: Cao Wei, Shu Han and Dongwu. Battle of Red Cliffs and Cao Cao were defeated by Sun Liu's allied forces, which laid the rudiment of the tripartite confrontation among the three countries.
4. Sixteen countries (30 1-460)
Sixteen kingdoms period (30 1 year-460 ad)
), Xiongnu, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qiang and Five Lakes were established in the north of China. Cui Hong, a historian of the Northern Wei Dynasty, wrote the Spring and Autumn Period of Sixteen Countries (Wuliang, Siyan, Sanqin, Erzhao, Shicheng and Yixia) with 16 countries, so later historians called this period ". In fact, the number of countries in this period was far more than 16.
5. The Southern Dynasties lasted from 420 AD to 589 AD.
The Southern Dynasty (420-589 AD) is the general name of four dynasties that existed in southern China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties and were founded in Jiankang (now Nanjing). In 420 AD, the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished, and Liu Song replaced it. Four Han regimes, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, have appeared in the south of China, which are the direct inheritors of Chinese culture and confront the northern Wei, eastern Wei (Northern Qi) and western Wei (Northern Zhou) regimes established by Xianbei people in the north. Sima Guang's Zi Tong Zhi Jian regards the Southern Dynasties as orthodox.
6. Northern Dynasties 386-58 1 year
Northern Dynasties (386-58 1) refers to the five northern dynasties that existed in China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Northern Dynasties included the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Five Dynasties (the Sui Dynasty, which inherited the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was called the Sui Dynasty by later generations because it destroyed the southern Chen Dynasty and completed the great cause of reunification). From the unification of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the establishment of the Sui Dynasty by Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty, there were four dynasties, namely Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, which confronted the southern region. The official compilation of history in the Tang Dynasty respected the Northern and Southern Dynasties as orthodox. In February of the first year of Dading in Northern Zhou Dynasty (AD 58 1 year), Emperor Jing of Zhou abdicated to Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, which established the Sui Dynasty and ended the Northern Dynasty.
7. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 907-960 AD
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) was a period of great division in the history of China. This title comes from the New History of the Five Dynasties, which is a combination of the Five Dynasties (907 ~ 960) and the Ten Kingdoms (902 ~ 979).
The Five Dynasties refer to the five regimes in the Central Plains that changed in turn after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty in 907, namely, Hou Liang, the later Tang Dynasty, the later Jin Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty and the later Zhou Dynasty. In 960, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chen Qiao in the later Zhou Dynasty. After usurping the throne in the latter Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty was established, and the Five Dynasties ended.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, there were many separatist regimes outside the Central Plains. Among them, more than ten separatist regimes, such as Houshu, Wu, Nantang, wuyue, Fujian, Chu, Nanhan, Nanping (Jingnan) and Beihan, were collectively called "Ten Countries" by the History of the New Five Dynasties and later historians. After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the remaining regimes of Jingnan, Wuping, Houshu, Nanhan, Nantang, wuyue and Beihan were unified one after another, and the south was basically unified.
3. All the periods in China's history when it was divided into several countries add up to 946 years.