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unusual facts about Jin Dynasty


Jewang Ungi

The Jewang Ungi consists of two volumes, both written in seven-character verse; the first deals with the history of China from the earliest years to the Jin Dynasty, and the second covers Korean history from Dangun to King Chungnyeol.


Biographies of Exemplary Women

The online Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia provides an e-text edition of the Lienu Zhuan, including both digitized Chinese content and images of a Song Dynasty woodblock edition with illustrations by Gu Kaizhi 顧凱之 (ca. 344-405 CE) of the Jin Dynasty.

Emperor Shun of Liu Song

He asked Wang, "Are you going to kill me?" Wang responded, "I will not kill you -- just letting you live elsewhere. Do not be sad -- this is what your Liu clan did to the Sima clan as well." (This was a reference to how Emperor Shun's great-grandfather Emperor Wu had seized the throne from Jin Dynasty.

Family tree of Sima Yi

Sima Jun had ten sons, among whom the most notable ones are Sima Chang and Sima Xin.

Shaw Brothers Studio

During the late 1950s to early '60s productions of the Shaw Studio were dominated by actresses like Li Li-Hua, Ivy Ling Po, Linda Lin Dai, Betty Loh Ti and Li Ching in dramatic and romantic features. In particular, the Huangmei opera The Love Eterne, starring Ivy Ling Po and Betty Loh Ti based upon the Butterfly Lovers folk legend from the Jin Dynasty, is one of the highest grossing features of the Shaw Studio.

Zhangjiakou

In August 1211, there raised the Badger's Mount Campaign, Genghis Khan 90,000 strong force destroyed the 450,000 strong Jin Dynasty army.


see also

Battle of Fei

Battle of Fei River (淝水之戰), fought between Former Qin and Eastern Jin Dynasty in AD 383

Empress Du

Empress Du Lingyang (杜陵陽) (321–341), Chinese empress of the Jin Dynasty

Empress Sima

Empress Sima Maoying (司馬茂英) (393–439), Chinese empress of the Jin Dynasty

General Tao

Tao Kan (259–334), Jin Dynasty Chinese general and governor

History of Jin

For its material, the History of Jin drew heavily on the historical records of the Jin Dynasty itself, while the events of its final years drew heavily on the private works and records of scholars such as Yuan Haowen, Liu Qi, Yang Huan and others.

Imitation Song

When Song lost control of northern China to the Jin (金) Dynasty, its capital was moved to Lin'an (modern Hangzhou), where there was a revival of printing, especially literature from Tang left in what was conquered by the Jin Dynasty.

Jurchen script

Jurchen script must have become much less known after the destruction of the Jin Dynasty by the Mongols, but it was not completely forgotten, because it is attested at least twice during the Ming Dynasty: on Yishiha's Tyr stele of 1413 and in a Chinese–Jurchen dictionary included in the multilingual "Chinese–Barbarian Dictionary" (华夷译语) compiled by the Ming Bureau of Translators (四夷馆).

The Patriot Yue Fei

Shao Bing as Han Shizhong, a Song general also known for resisting invaders from the Jin Dynasty.

The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty

It started from its early origins as the Later Jin Dynasty, founded by Nurhachi in 1616, until its eventual collapse when the last ruler Puyi abdicated in 1912.

Wang Fu

Wang Fu (or Fou) :zh:王浮, daoist of the early Jin dynasty, author of the Huahujing.

Wu Hu uprising

The most serious initial revolt, however, was Xiongnu chieftain Liu Yuan, who proclaimed the kingdom of Han Zhao in 304 as well, in the northern heartland of the Jin dynasty.

Xiaowu

Emperor Xiaowu of Jin (362–396), an emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (265–420) in China