Northern Wei
The Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) was the first regime in the Northern Dynasties. By the Tuoba Gui established, the capital of Ping City (now Datong City, Shanxi Province), early Mandarin freshness, Wei Tai and seventeen years (493 years) began to Chinese as Mandarin. 439 years, unified North China. 494 years moved to Luoyang, the emperor changed the surname. 534 years, split into the Eastern Wei (both Ye City) and the Western Wei (Chang'an). East Wei Wuding eight years (550 years), high foreign waste filial death Emperor, on behalf of the East Wei self-reliance, the establishment of the Northern Qi Dynasty. The Western Wei Dynasty in the three years (557 years) was ruled by the righteousness and persuasion Zen in the cousin Yuwen feel, the establishment of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the history of the Northern Wei officially declared the end. Tuoba's claim to be the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, the birthplace of the Yellow Emperor when the Warring States period where Wei, and "Wei" has a good meaning, so the country name. With its territory in northern China, is the first regime in the Northern Dynasties, it is known as the "Northern Wei." Different from the previous Cao Wei regime, some history books so called "Wei Wei", but because the historian does not call Cao Wei as "before Wei", so "Wei Wei," said very little use. (The Eastern Wei and the Western Wei Although the surname Tuoba, but most historians do not call the two regimes), Yuan Wei. ...