Nanjing was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.

Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, was divided into three dynasties: Dongwu, Dongjin, Southern Song, Nanqi, Nanliang and Nanchen.

As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, Nanjing was called "the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties". During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Dong was Sun Quan's world, and its capital was Jianye (now Nanjing). In 3 17 AD of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Si Marui, a royal family of the Western Jin Dynasty who fled to the south of the Yangtze River, proclaimed himself emperor in Jiankang (now Nanjing) and established the Eastern Jin regime.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the four dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen all took Jiankang (now Nanjing) as their capital. As for the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, whose capital is Yingtian (now Nanjing), and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whose capital is Tianjing (now Nanjing). They were not included in the Six Dynasties.

The Six Dynasties inherited the Han Dynasty and started the Tang Dynasty, creating a splendid "Six Dynasties Civilization", which achieved unprecedented prosperity in science, technology, literature, art and other aspects, and the southern part of China was greatly developed, creating a new historical era of Chinese civilization.

age characteristics

1, connecting the preceding with the following: Six Dynasties is an extremely important era connecting Qin and Han Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties; The Six Dynasties was an era when the Han nationality was formally formed and stepped onto the historical stage. The Six Dynasties was an era of political power struggle, such as the change of "carrying on the family line" and the fate of life, such as the drift of "turning over accounts". The Six Dynasties was an era when boats followed the road, merchants made friends with envoys, and marine culture rose.

2. Cruel struggle: The Six Dynasties were sandwiched between the two empires of Han and Tang Dynasties. Apart from the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty for several decades, the Six Dynasties and some Han or non-Han regimes in the north formed a long-term division between the north and the south.

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