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Northern China (Chinese: 中国北方 or 中国北部; lit. 'China's North') and Southern China (Chinese: 中国南方 or 中国南部 ; lit. 'China's South') [ note 1 ] are two approximate regions that display certain differences in terms of their geography, demographics, economy, and culture.
During the Northern and Southern dynasties, the Yangtze valley transformed from a backwater frontier region with less than 25% of China's population to a major cultural center of China with 40% of China's population, and after China was subsequently unified under the Tang dynasty, they became the core area of Chinese culture.
Northern Wei: Tuoba Gui takes Bingzhou from Later Yan [1] Emperor Xiaowu of Jin dies and is succeeded by Sima Dezong (Emperor An of Jin) [1] 397: Southern Liang: Tufa Wugu declares himself Prince of Xiping [1] Northern Liang: Duan Ye declares himself Duke of Jiankang in Zhangye [1] 398: Northern Wei: Tuoba Gui moves his capital to Pingcheng [1] 399
This transformed southern China from remote territories to the economic centre that came to rival the north from Tang dynasty onwards. Buddhism, which first reached China via the Silk Road during the Eastern Han dynasty, flourished in the Six Dynasties (and simultaneously in the Northern Dynasties) and has been a major religion in China ever since.
The Jurchen conquest of North China and shift of capitals from Kaifeng to Lin'an was the dividing line between the Northern and Southern Song dynasties. After their fall to the Jin, the Song lost control of North China. Now occupying what has been traditionally known as "China proper", the Jin regarded themselves the rightful rulers of China.
One of this year’s most powerful storms made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, after killing at least four people and injuring at least 95 others in southern China, according to state media.
In the preceding decades, the Mongols had conquered the Jin dynasty in Northern China, and the Southern Song dynasty fell in 1279 after a protracted and bloody war. The Mongol Yuan dynasty became the first conquest dynasty in Chinese history to rule the entirety of China proper and its population as an ethnic minority.
China's desire for a massive surface combatant dates back to the 1960s. China initiated an "055" program in the mid-1970s, then canceled it in 1983 due to weaknesses in its industrial base and ...