Chinese History for Everyone 06: the Great Split Era
by Yang Zhao
About This Novel
The "Chinese History for Everyone" series is a brand-new general history of China. It does not introduce readers to dry historical events and knowledge points, but explores the deep logic behind Chinese history and provides a new set of cognitive methods for understanding Chinese history. The series consists of 4 volumes and 13 volumes, presenting a panoramic view of the evolution of "China", a unique and tenacious life entity. The sixth volume, "The Great Schism Era", focuses on the "cultural vitality of the era of classification" to help everyone re-understand the so-called "Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties" as a period of division. You will see: the widely circulated statement in Chinese history of "Five Husbands Ruined China" cannot withstand scrutiny; the two wonderful books "Characters" and "Shishuo Xinyu" brilliantly present The culture of character evaluation in the Six Dynasties; the literature of the Southern and Northern Dynasties had outstanding achievements in poetic innovation and rhyme structure, which paved the way for Tang poetry; the Northern Wei Dynasty was the key to connecting the two empires of Qin and Han and the Sui and Tang Dynasties. To understand the Sui and Tang Dynasties, one must first understand the institutional innovations of the Northern Wei Dynasty; Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty tried hard to gain the power of monasteries in order to compete with the family estates, but failed...
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