CHINAKNOWLEDGE - a universal guide for China studies | HOME | About
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) [Location: HOME > History > Persons > Sanguo, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties]

Chinese History - Persons of the Age of Division

This section includes persons from the "Three Kingdoms" Wei 魏, Shu 蜀 and Wu 吳, the Western and Eastern Jin dynasties 晉, the "Sixteen Barbarian States" 五胡十六國, the "Southern Dynasties" Liu-Song 劉宋, Southern Qi 南齊, Liang 梁, Chen 陳, and the "Northern Dynasties" Northern Wei 北魏, Eastern Wei 東魏 and Western Wei 西魏, Northern Qi 北齊 and Northern Zhou 北周.

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T W X Y Z
Transcription: Pinyin. You can also search for persons by pressing keys [Strg][F].


A[top]
Adou 阿斗, see Liu Shan 劉禪

B[top]

C[top]
Cao Cao 曹操, see Wei Wudi 魏武帝
Cao Fang 曹芳 (ruler of the Cao-Wei dynasty, r. 239-254)
Cao Mao 曹髦 (ruler of the Cao-Wei dyasty, r. 254-260 CE)
Cao Pi 曹丕, see Wei Wendi 魏文帝
Chen Gaozu 陳高祖 Chen Baxian 陳霸先
Chen Houzhu 陳後主 Chen Shubao 陳叔寳
Cui Hao 崔浩

D[top]
Deng Ai 鄧艾
Diao Chan 貂蟬 (beauty with whose help the warlord Dong Zhuo was ruined)
Du Yu 杜預 (Confucian scholar of the Jin period)

E[top]
Empress Dowager Feng 馮太后
Empress Dowager Hu 胡太后
Empress Jia 賈后
Erzhu Rong 爾朱榮

F[top]
Faxian 法顯 (Buddhist monk travelling to India)
Fa Zheng 法正
Fu Jian 苻堅
Fu Xian 傅咸 (writer of the Western Jin)
Fu Xuan 傅玄 (philosopher of the Western Jin)

G[top]
Gan Bao 干寶 (writer of the Eastern Jin)
Gao Huan 高歡
Ge Hong 葛洪 (Daoist master of the Jin)
Ge Xuan 葛玄 (Daoist master of the Three Kingdoms)
Gu Rong 顧榮
Guan Yu 關羽
Guo Jia 郭嘉
Guo Pu 郭璞 (philosopher of the Eastern Jin)
Guo Xiang 郭象 (philosopher of the Western Jin)

H[top]
Han Kangbo 韓康伯 (philosopher of the Eastern Jin)
Han Zhaoliedi 漢昭烈帝 Liu Bei 劉備 (founder of the Shu-Han dynasty, r. 221-222)
He Yan 何晏 (philosopher of the Cao-Wei period)
Helian Bobo 赫連勃勃
Hou Jing 侯景
Huan Wen 桓溫
Huan Xuan 桓玄
Huangfu Mi 皇甫謐 (philosopher and physician of the Western Jin)

J[top]
Ji Han 嵇含 (writer and botanist of the Western Jin)
Ji Kang 嵇康 (thinker of the Western Jin period)
Jiang Wei 姜維
Jin Wudi 晉武帝 Sima Yan 司馬炎
Jin Yuandi 晉元帝 Sima Jun 司馬睿
Juqu Mengxun 沮渠蒙遜

K[top]

L[top]
Li Cong 李聰
Li Gao 李暠
Li Yuan 李淵
Li Xiong 李雄
Liang Wudi 梁武帝 Xiao Yan 蕭衍
Liang Yuandi 梁元帝 Xiao Yi 蕭繹
Liu Bei 劉備, see Han Zhaoliedi 漢昭烈帝
Liu Chan, see Liu Shan 劉禪
Liu Kun 劉琨
Liu Ling 劉伶 (thinker of the Western Jin period)
Liu Laozhi 劉牢之
Liu Shan 劉禪 (last ruler of the Shu-Han dynasty, r. 223-263 CE)
Liu Yao 劉曜
Liu Yi 劉毅
Liu Yu 劉裕, see Song Wudi 宋武帝
Lu Xun 陸遜
Lu Xun 盧循
Lü Bu 呂布
Lü Guang 呂光
Lü Meng 呂蒙

M[top]
Ma Chao 馬超
Mei Ze 梅賾 (Confucian scholar of the Eastern Jin)
Meng Huo 孟獲
Murong Chui 慕容垂
Murong De 慕容德
Murong Hui 慕容廆
Murong Huang 慕容皩

N[top]

O[top]
Ouyang Jian 歐陽建 (philosopher of the Western Jin)

P[top]
Pei Wei 裴頠 (philosopher of the Western Jin)

Q[top]
Qi Gaozu 齊高祖 Xiao Daocheng 蕭道成
Qi Wenxuandi 齊文宣帝 Gao Yang 高洋
Qi Wannian 齊萬年
Qifu Guoren 乞伏國仁

R[top]
Ruan Ji 阮籍 (thinker of the Western Jin period)
Ruan Xian 阮咸 (musician of the Western Jin period)

S[top]
Shan Tao 山濤 (writer of the Cao-Wei period)
Shi Bing 石冰
Shi Hu 石虎
Shi Le 石勒
Shu Xi 束晳 (philosopher of the Western Jin)
Sima Biao 司馬彪 (historian and philosopher of the Western Jin)
Sima Shi 司馬師 (general of the Cao-Wei, ancestor of the Jin)
Sima Yan 司馬炎, see Jin Wudi 晉武帝
Sima Yi 司馬懿
Song Wendi 宋文帝 Liu Yilong 劉義隆
Song Wudi 宋武帝 Liu Yu 劉裕
Su Jun 蘇峻
Sun Ce 孫策
Sun Chuo 孫綽 (philosopher of the Eastern Jin)
Sun En 孫恩
Sun Hao 孫皓 (ruler of the Wu dynasty, r. 264-280)
Sun Jian 孫堅 (warlord of the end of the Later Han period)
Sun Liang 孫亮 (ruler of the Wu dynasty, r. 252-258 CE)
Sun Quan 孫權, see Wu Dadi 吳大帝

T[top]
Tan Daoji 檀道濟
Tang Yu 唐寓
Tao Kan 陶侃
Tufa Rutan 禿髮傉橝
Tufa Wugu 禿髮烏孤
Tuoba Gui 拓跋珪, see Wei Daowudi 魏道武帝

W[top]
Wang Bi 王弼 (Confucian scholar of the Cao-Wei period)
Wang Dao 王導
Wang Dun 王敦
Wang Jun 王濬
Wang Meng 王猛
Wang Rong 王戎 (thinker of the Western Jin period)
Wang Sengbian 王僧辯
Wang Su 王肅 (philosopher of the Wei period)
Wang Yan 王衍 (scholar of the Western Jin)
Wei Daowudi 魏道武帝 Tuoba Gui 拓跋珪
Wei Taiwudi 魏太武帝 Tuoba Tao 拓跋燾
Wei Mingdi 魏明帝 Cao Rui 曹叡 (ruler of the Cao-Wei dynasty, r. 226-239 CE)
Wei Wendi 魏文帝 Cao Pi 曹丕 (founder of the Cao-Wei dynasty, r. 220-226)
Wei Wudi 魏武帝 Cao Cao 曹操 (warlord of the late Han period)
Wei Yuandi 魏元帝 Cao Huan 曹奂 (last ruler of the Cao-Wei dynasty, r. 260-265)
Wei Xiaowudi 魏孝武帝 Tuoba Hong or Yuan Hong 元宏
Wu Dadi 吳大帝 Sun Quan 孫權 (founder of the Wu dynasty, r. 222-252)
Wu Jingdi 吳景帝(r. 258-264) Sun Xiu 孫休 (ruler of the Wu dynasty, r. 258-264)

X[top]
Xiang Xiu 向秀 (thinker of the Western Jin period)
Xiao Daocheng 蕭道成, see Qi Gaozu 齊高祖
Xiao Yan 蕭衍, see Liang Wudi 梁武帝
Xie An 謝安
Xie Xuan 謝玄
Xun Yu 荀彧

Y[top]
Yang Hu 羊祜
Yao Chang 姚萇
Yin Hao 殷浩
Yu Liang 庾亮
Yuwen Hu 宇文護
Yuwen Tai 宇文泰

Z[top]
Zhang Chang 張昌
Zhang Fei 張飛
Zhang Gui 張軌
Zhang Miao 張邈 (philosopher of the Western Jin)
Zhang Zhan 張湛 (philosopher of the Eastern Jin)
Zhang Zhao 張昭
Zhi Yu 摯虞 (writer and politician of the Western Jin)
Zhong Hui 鍾會
Zhou Qi 周玘
Zhou Wudi 周武帝 Yuwen Yong 宇文邕
Zhou Yu 周瑜
Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮
Zu Ti 祖逖
Zu Yue 祖約

Important Chinese of the...

age of mythology and early history (-11th cent. BCE)

Zhou period (11th cent.-221 BCE) and the state of Qin (3rd cent.-206 BCE)

Han period (206 BCE-220 CE)

age of division (220-581)

Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties periods (581-960)

Song, Liao and Jin dynasties (960-1279)

Yuan period (1279-1368)

Ming period (1368-1644)

Qing period (1644-1911)

Republican period (1911-1949)

People's Republic and Taiwan (since 1949)

© 2000 ff · Ulrich Theobald · Mail