Di (Five Barbarians)The Di (Chinese: ; pinyin: Dī; Wade–Giles: Ti; < Eastern Han Chinese *tei < Old Chinese (B-S): *tˤij) were an ancient ethnic group that lived in western China, and are best known as one of the non-Han Chinese peoples known as Five Barbarians that seized power in northern China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. This ethnic group should not be confused with the earlier Dí (狄), which refers to unrelated nomadic peoples in northern China during the earlier Zhou dynasty.
Li XiongHouseLiDynastyCheng-HanLi Xiong (李雄) (274 – 11 August 334), courtesy nameZhongjuan (仲雋), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Wu of Cheng (Han) (成(漢)武帝), was the first emperor of the Ba-Di-led Cheng-Han dynasty and commonly regarded as its founder. Li Xiong's declaration of himself as the Prince of Chengdu in late 304 is commonly regarded as the start of the Sixteen Kingdoms era.
HanzhongHanzhong (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; lit. 'middle of the Han River'; abbreviation: Han) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shaanxi province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the south and Gansu to the west. The founder of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang, was once enfeoffed as the king of the Hanzhong region after overthrowing the Qin dynasty.Li ShouHouseLiDynastyCheng-HanLi Shou (Chinese: 李壽; 300 – c.September 343), courtesy nameWukao (武考), also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Zhaowen of (Cheng) Han ((成)漢昭文帝), was an emperor of the Di-led Chinese Cheng-Han dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms era.
SichuanProvince in Southwestern ChinaProvince in ChinaTibetan nameTibetanསི་ཁྲོན་Yi nameYiꌧꍧsyp chuoSichuan is an inland province in Southwestern China. It is located in the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Chengdu, and the province's population stands at 83 million.
Li TeLi Te (李特, 240s - c.March 303), courtesy name Xuanxiu (玄休), posthumously King Jing of Chengdu (成都景王) and later Emperor Jing (景皇帝), was the spiritual founder of the Ba-Di-led Cheng-Han dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Under the ruling Jin dynasty (266–420), he and many people from present-day Gansu sought refuge in Yizhou due to Qi Wannian's rebellion.
Jin dynasty (266–420)Today part ofChinaMongoliaNorth KoreaVietnamAlternative Chinese nameTraditional Chinese司馬晉Simplified Chinese司马晋Second alternative Chinese nameTraditional Chinese兩晉Simplified Chinese两晋Literal meaningTwo Jins
Simplified Chinese charactersStandardized set of Chinese charactersTraditional Chinese charactersTraditional Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets used to write the Chinese language, with the other being simplified characters. Traditional characters predominated in written Chinese, the historical lingua franca of East Asia, until the mid-20th century. Today, they are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia.
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