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The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified dynasty established by ethnic minorities in Chinese history. In 1271 AD, Kublai Khan named the country Yuan. In 1368 AD, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and conquered most of the capital in the Northern Expedition, which lasted 98 years. It took 276 years in the Ming Dynasty from the founding of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang to Li Zicheng's invasion of Beijing in 1644 and Emperor Chongzhen's suicide. The Qing Dynasty is generally considered to be the last feudal dynasty in China. It lasted for 296 years from the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty by Nurhaci to the abdication of the last emperor Puyi in 1912 by Yuan Shikai. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, all aspects of Chinese society have undergone earth-shaking changes, and countless capable and wise men have stepped onto the stage of history and written their own stories with wisdom.

The Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties (960-1279) were a period when China's feudal economy turned from prosperity to decline. The feudal production method spread to distant frontiers, and over three hundred years, multiple coexisting national regimes emerged. The Song Dynasty reappeared in the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, and the Xixia Kingdom were short-lived and perished in the smoke of the war of aggression. The princes and princes determine the world with their great talents and broad strategies, the counselors make plans and travel in the rivers and lakes and temples, the military generals control the treacherous roads to level the four directions, the civil servants use their full knowledge to stabilize the country and benefit the people, and the women come up with good strategies and ingenious plans, all of which shine with the light of wisdom. It is beneficial to open the book, and if you read it carefully, you can also understand your own wisdom in life.

This album brings together five masterpieces of think tank stories in Chinese history: "Qin and Han Chapter", "Three Kingdoms Chapter", "Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties Chapter", "Song, Liao and Jin Chapter" and "Yuan, Ming and Qing Chapter". The emperor's mind is unfathomable, the civil servants manage the government as if they are weighing their weight, the generals break the formation and the thunder cracks the sky, the counselors plan as if they are stargazing, and the wisdom of women is often hidden in the cracks of history - who is smarter? Let's look at the ups and downs of the storm.

"The general trend of the world is that if it divides for a long time, it will unite, and if it unites for a long time, it will divide." The Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties were the era of the most frequent regime changes in Chinese history. In 220 AD, Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor. In 589 AD, the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Southern Dynasty Chen. In just 369 years, it experienced the Three Kingdoms period, the Western Jin period, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. Only 37 of them were unified. Heroes competed for hegemony, wars raged for years, and more than thirty dynasties, large and small, rose and fell. The culture of the Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties has been marked by division and separatism, but it still shines with dazzling light. From the princes and generals to the heroes and girls, living in the troubled times of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, if you want to settle down, you must have a wise man by your side. Their wisdom still shines brightly through the ages.

The Qin and Han Dynasties are the collective name of the two unified dynasties, the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. From the time when Qin Shihuang unified China to when Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was forced to abdicate in Cao Pi, the Qin and Han Dynasties lasted for 421 years. Over the past four hundred years, the situation has been changing, and countless outstanding people have emerged. Qin Shihuang, who had made great contributions to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the "Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty" who assisted Liu Bang in creating the Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo, who controlled the emperor with jokes, Ban Chao, who recovered the Western Regions, and Deng Sui, who solved the crisis of the Eastern Han Dynasty... Whether they were emperors, generals or female counselors, they all used their wisdom and strategies to compose an enduring historical legend and inspire future generations.

From the establishment of the Sui Dynasty by Yang Jian in 581 AD to the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907 AD, these 326 years were the famous Sui and Tang Dynasties in the history of our country. The Five Dynasties were the regimes that changed successively from the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Wu Dynasties established after the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907 AD until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty in 960 AD. The country experienced more than 70 years of turmoil. During these nearly four hundred years, there were times of peace and prosperity, as well as raging wars, and outstanding figures appeared one after another. Yang Jian, who ended the 400-year war, spoke out to remonstrate with Wei Zheng, Li Bi, who was dressed in white as prime minister, Su Dingfang, who destroyed the three kingdoms and opened up new territories, Wu Zetian, who ascended the throne as a woman... In the face of successive crises, they relied on their own wisdom to reverse the situation and contributed one legendary story after another.