The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589 AD, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin
Army of Northern Wei terracotta soldiers in Xianbei uniform, tomb of Sima Jinlong, 484 CE.
Northern Wei officer. Tomb statuette, Luoyang Museum.
Northern Wei Buddha Maitreya gilt-bronze figurine, 443
Civil officer, Western Wei, 535–557
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The Sixteen Kingdoms, less commonly the Sixteen States, was a period in Chinese history from AD 304 to 439 when the political order of the Jin dynasty in northern China fragmented into a series of sho
Northern and Southern dynasties
…pinyin: Nán běi cháo) was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589 AD, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin dynasty. It is sometimes considered to be the latter part of a longer period known as the Six Dynasties (220–589 AD). The period…
Distribution of the non-Han peoples within and outside of northern China prior to the fall of Western Jin.
A bronze Buddha statue created under the Later Zhao during the reign of Shi Hu in 338. It is the earliest known Buddha sculpture produced in China.
17th-century portrait of the Former Qin poet, Su Hui with her palindrome poem, the Star Gauge (璇璣圖). Few poems from the Sixteen Kingdoms survived, and the Star Gauge is unique as it consists of 29 by 29 grid of characters which can be read in roughly 3,000 different ways.
Bodhisattva sculptures at Maijishan Grottoes, a series of Buddhist rock-cut caves in Tianshui, Gansu. Construction of the grottoes began during the Later Qin period and was expanded by later dynasties such as the Western Qin and Northern Wei. These specific sculptures, however, were only first constructed under the Sui dynasty.