The Jin Dynasty (265-420) is a connecting link between the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which is divided into two periods: the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Western Jin Dynasty was one of the unified dynasties in the history of China, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was one of the six dynasties. Two Jin dynasties handed down 15 emperors, totaling 155 years.
In 266, he usurped Wei, established Luoyang as its capital, and gained the title of Gold. Historically known as the Western Jin Dynasty, Wu was destroyed in 280 and unified. After the Eight Kings Rebellion, in 3 16, the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by barbarians in the north, and the chaos in the north was called the Five Rebellions in history. In 3 17, Jinshi moved south, and Si Marui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty under Jianye, which made many northern expeditions. In 383, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was temporarily consolidated after the war with the former Qin Dynasty. During the Jin Dynasty, ethnic minorities moved to the Central Plains, which strengthened national integration, and northerners moved south, developing the Jiangnan area. In 420, Emperor Wu of Song established the Song Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished. The history of China entered the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The Western Jin Dynasty inherited the territory of Cao Wei, and after reunification, it occupied the territory of Sun Wu. The Eastern Jin Dynasty increased and decreased with the change of territory, mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River.
The political system of the Jin Dynasty was clan politics, which was the basis of the six-part system in the three provinces of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Compared with the Three Kingdoms period, agriculture, commerce and handicrafts in the Jin Dynasty developed further.
Although the Jin Dynasty was the declining period of China culture since the end of Han Dynasty, it made new progress in philosophy, literature, art, history, science and technology. Jin Dynasty culture is developing towards diversification, which is an era of cultural creation, conflict and integration. Because the exclusive position of Confucianism has been broken, philosophy, literature, art, history and science and technology have been innovated, and some of them have become independent knowledge. Contemporary ideas, including metaphysics, Taoism and Buddhism, spread from India to the East, and scholars gained the upper hand by talking openly. Because the frontier nationalities brought grassland culture, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had the Central Plains culture and Jiangnan culture, and the two sides gradually began cultural exchanges or ethnic integration.