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Possibly due to the popularity of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Three Kingdoms era is one of the most well-known non-modern Chinese eras in terms of iconic characters, deeds and exploits. This is reflected in the way that fictional accounts of the Three Kingdoms, mostly based on the novel, play a significant role in East Asian popular culture.
Map of Chinese provinces in the prelude of Three Kingdoms period. (In the late Eastern Han dynasty, 189 CE). In 106 BCE, during the reign of Emperor Wu in the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE – 9 CE), China was divided into 13 administrative divisions (excluding the area under the central government's control), each governed by an Inspector (刺史).
Subsequent to Game of the Three Kingdoms, similar three-player xiangqi variants emerged utilizing half-boards but with different center-connecting geometries and corresponding rules. One of these is Game of the Three Friends ( Chinese : 三友棋 , Pinyin : Sān-yǒu-qí ; also called Sanyou Qi or Three Friends Chess) invented by Zheng Jinde ...
The Chinese territory that existed between the 1750's after the Qing Dynasty had completed its overall unification of China and 1840's before the aggression and encroachment on China by the imperialist powers is the territorial and geographical scope and range of China, a logical and natural formation from the historical process over thousands ...
Map of Chinese provinces in the prelude of Three Kingdoms period (In the late Han dynasty period, 189 CE). In 188 during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220), Yuzhou's capital was established in Qiao County (譙縣; present-day Bozhou , Anhui ).
Bingzhou, or Bing Province, was a location in ancient China. According to legend, when Yu the Great ( c. 2200 BC -2100 BC) tamed the flood, he divided the land of China into the Nine Provinces . Historical texts such as the Rites of Zhou , and "Treatise on Geography" section (volume 28) of the Book of Han , recorded that Bingzhou was one of the ...
Map of Chinese provinces in the prelude of Three Kingdoms period. (In the late Eastern Han dynasty, 189 CE). In the late Han dynasty, much of northern China, including Jizhou, was controlled by the warlord Yuan Shao and headquartered at Ye. In 200, Yuan Shao was defeated by the rival warlord Cao Cao at the Battle of Guandu, and died shortly ...
The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), usually known in Chinese after the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (simplified Chinese: 太平天国; traditional Chinese: 太平天國; pinyin: Tàipíng Tiānguó) proclaimed by the rebels, was a rebellion in southern China inspired by a Hakka named Hong Xiuquan, who had claimed that he was the ...