Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the Eastern Wei (simplified Chinese: 东魏; traditional Chinese: 東魏; pinyin: Dōng Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty. One of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period, the Eastern Wei ruled the eastern part of northern China from 534 to 550. As with the Northern Wei, the ruling family of the Eastern Wei were members of the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei.
Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the EasternWei (simplified Chinese: 东魏; traditional Chinese: 東魏; pinyin: Dōng Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of...
three time periods: Northern Wei; Eastern and Western Weis; Northern Qi and Northern Zhou. The Northern, Eastern, and Western Wei along with the Northern Zhou...
Wei (Hanzi: 魏; pinyin: Wèi < Middle Chinese: *ŋjweiC < Eastern Han Chinese: *ŋuiC) (220–266), known as Cao Wei (曹魏) or Former Wei in historiography, was...
split into: Western Wei (西魏, 535–557) EasternWei (東魏, 534–550) Zhai Wei (翟魏, 388–392), state of Dingling/Gaoche ethnicity in China Wei River, a main tributary...
Xiaojing of EasternWei ((東)魏孝靜帝) (524 – 21 January 552), personal name Yuan Shanjian (元善見), was the founder and the only emperor of China's EasternWei dynasty...
Yan Northern Wei, Southern Liang, EasternWei, and Western Wei The Northern Wei, the Southern Liang, the EasternWei, and the Western Wei were ruled by...
Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the Western Wei (Chinese: 西魏; pinyin: Xī Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration...
and is an important text describing the history of the Northern Wei and EasternWei from 386 to 550. Widely regarded as the official and authoritative...
military general, monarch, and politician. He was a general of Northern Wei, EasternWei, and Liang, and briefly, after controlling the Liang imperial regime...
became the regent of EasternWei. In 550, he forced the Emperor Xiaojing of EasternWei to yield the throne to him, ending the EasternWei dynasty and starting...
as a vassal kingdom nominally under Cao Wei, its rival state, but declared complete independence from Cao Wei in November 222. It was elevated to an empire...
became firmly in control of the EasternWei court. Eventually, in 550, his son Gao Yang forced Emperor Xiaojing of EasternWei to yield the throne to him,...
Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from 220 to 280 AD following the end of the Han dynasty. This period was preceded by the Eastern Han...
including: The Eastern Zhou dynasty, from 510 BC to 314 BC. The Eastern Han dynasty from AD 25 to 190 and then briefly in AD 196. The Cao Wei (AD 220–265)...
the Battle of Fei River by the Eastern Jin. In the wake of the Former Qin's collapse, the Tuoba formed the Northern Wei dynasty and eventually reunited...
was the site of numerous battles between Western Wei (and its successor Northern Zhou) and EasternWei (and its successor Northern Qi) between 538 and...
from Tuoba to Yuan (元). The empire split into EasternWei and Western Wei in 535, with the Western Wei's rulers briefly resuming use of the Tuoba name...
wife of Gao Huan, the paramount general of Northern Wei and its branch successor state EasternWei, and during Gao Huan's lifetime was already influential...
Northern Wei's division into two (as Gao then made Yuan Shanjian (Emperor Xiaojing of EasternWei) the heir apparent, establishing EasternWei). Emperor...
Shanjian (Emperor Xiaojing of EasternWei)—the son of Emperor Wen's cousin Yuan Dan (元亶)—emperor, thus establishing the EasternWei, Emperor Wen is therefore...
barbarians correspond to astrological signs?" With Northern Wei divided into EasternWei and Western Wei in light of Emperor Xiaowu's flight, Emperor Wu initially...
EasternWei and the part under Yuwen's and Emperor Wen's control known as Western Wei. For the rest of his life, Yuwen endeavored to make Western Wei...
the Han Chinese ruler Gao Huan of the EasternWei. CHAM- PA 500 SASANIAN EMPIRE BYZANTINE EMPIRE NORTHERN WEI HYMYAR SOUTHERN QI Alchon Huns Nezaks TOCHA-...
the creation of Northern Wei. Thus there is some unofficial overlap with the era of the Sixteen Kingdoms. During the Eastern Jin period, the army relied...
EasternWei's powerful minister Gao Huan was succeeded by his sons Gao Cheng and Gao Yang, who took the throne from Emperor Xiaojing of EasternWei in...
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