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Sūn Wú. Transcriptions. Wu ( Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Middle Chinese * ŋuo < Eastern Han Chinese: *ŋuɑ [5] ), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a dynastic state of China and one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period. It previously existed from 220 to 222 as a ...
Wu Zetian [note 8] (17 February 624 [note 9] [note 10] – 16 December 705), [3] [4] personal name Wu Zhao, was Empress of China from 660 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. She ruled first as empress consort, through her husband Emperor Gaozong and then as an empress dowager, through her sons Emperors ...
Wu (Chinese: 吳; pinyin: Wú; Old Chinese: * ŋʷˤa) was a state during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period, outside the Zhou cultural sphere.It was also known as Gouwu (句吳 /* [k]ˁ(r)o.ŋʷˁa /) or Gongwu (工/攻吳 /* kˁoŋ.ŋʷˁa /) from the pronunciation of the local language.
The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from 220 to 280 AD following the end of the Han dynasty. [1] This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Western Jin dynasty. Academically, the periodisation begins with the establishment of Cao Wei in 220 and ends with the conquest of Wu by Jin ...
Emperor Wu of Han. Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87 BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. [3] His reign lasted 54 years – a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later – and remains the record for ethnic Han emperors.
King Wu of Zhou ( Chinese: 周 武 王; pinyin: Zhōu Wǔ Wáng; died c. 1043 BCE) was the founder and first king of the Zhou dynasty. The chronology of his reign is disputed but is generally thought to have begun around 1046 BCE and ended with his death three years later. [1] King Wu's ancestral name was Ji and given name Fa.
t. e. According to Chinese mythology and traditional Chinese historiography, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors ( Chinese : 三皇五帝; pinyin : Sān huáng wǔ dì) were a series of sage rulers, and the first Emperors of China. [1] Today, they are considered culture heroes, [2] but they were widely worshipped as divine "ancestral spirits ...
Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou. Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou ( (北)周武帝) (543 – 21 June 578 [1] ), personal name Yuwen Yong (宇文邕), Xianbei name Miluotu (禰羅突), was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Northern Zhou dynasty of China. As was the case of the reigns of his brothers Emperor Xiaomin and Emperor Ming, the early part of his ...