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The Upheaval of the Five Barbarians also translated as the Uprising, Rebellion [6] or the Revolt [7] of the Five Barbarians (simplified Chinese: 五胡乱华; traditional Chinese: 五胡亂華; lit. 'Five foreign tribes disrupting China' [ 8 ] ) is a Chinese expression used to refer to a chaotic period of warfare from 304 to 316 during the fall ...
The Five Barbarians, or Wu Hu (Chinese: 五胡; pinyin: Wǔ Hú), is a Chinese historical exonym for five ancient non-Han "Hu" peoples who immigrated to northern China in the Eastern Han dynasty, and then overthrew the Western Jin dynasty and established their own kingdoms in the 4th–5th centuries.
Prior to the upheaval of the Five Barbarians, the Di, along with many other nomadic peoples in northwestern China, partook in a number of revolts against the Western Jin dynasty. In 296, a Di chieftain, Qi Wannian, was acclaimed as emperor and led a four-year-long rebellion that devastated the Guanzhong region.
During the first half of the 4th century, the Jin dynasty gradually lost control over its northern territories to the so-called 'Five Barbarians' in a period that would come to know as the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Jin moved its capital south to Jiankang in 318, and by 330, northern China was effectively unified by Shi Le's Later Zhao.
English: A map showing eneral southward migrations during the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians. Information sourced from 晉永嘉喪亂後之民族遷徙 by 譚其驤 ...
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