Six Dynasties

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era of Chinese history historical period

The Six Dynasties were a succession of short-lived Chinese regimes that ruled parts of southern China between the fall of the Han and the rise of the Sui, a period marked by political fragmentation and significant cultural and literary flourishing.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Six Dynasties period	4
Six Dynasties culture	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of Chinese history ⓘ historical period ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Liuchao NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Southern Dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital	Jiankang NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	courtly aristocratic culture ⓘ migration of northern elites to the south ⓘ north–south political division ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
endTime	589 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	art ⓘ calligraphy ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ religion ⓘ
followedBy	Sui dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
follows	Han dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
governmentForm	monarchy ⓘ
hasNotableFigure	Ge Hong NERFINISHED ⓘ Gu Kaizhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Tao Yuanming NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang Xizhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Xie Lingyun NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Chen dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Eastern Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ Liang dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Liu Song dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Qi dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageUsed	Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	southern China ⓘ
majorCity	Jiankang NERFINISHED ⓘ Jianye NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	advances in calligraphy ⓘ cultural flourishing ⓘ development of Chinese Buddhism ⓘ development of landscape poetry ⓘ literary flourishing ⓘ metaphysical xuanxue philosophy ⓘ political fragmentation ⓘ
overlapsWith	Northern and Southern dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixteen Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Chinese history ⓘ
precededBy	Late Han period NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ Confucianism ⓘ Daoism NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	220 ⓘ

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Capital of Six Dynasties → relatedTo → Six Dynasties ⓘ

Jinling → historicalPeriodUsed → Six Dynasties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Six Dynasties period

Jinling → associatedWith → Six Dynasties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Six Dynasties culture

East Asian Buddhism → historicalPeriodOfSpread → Six Dynasties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Six Dynasties period

Chinese Buddhist Canon → timePeriod → Six Dynasties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Six Dynasties period

Pengcheng → flourishedIn → Six Dynasties ⓘ

this entity surface form: Six Dynasties period