Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Asian
6. East Asian
7. Chinese (culture or style)
8. Chinese dynastic styles and periods

Narrower term/s

• Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Xia (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Cheng Han (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Former Zhao (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Later Zhao (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Former Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Western Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Northern Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Southern Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Former Qin (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Later Qin (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Western Qin (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Later Yan (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Northern Yan (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Southern Yan (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)
• Former Yan (Sixteen Kingdoms, culture, style, period)

Anotations

Scope note:

Cultures, styles, and period in Chinese history dating 304 to 439, when the political order of northern China fractured into a series of short-lived sovereign states founded by ethnic Xiongnu, Xianbei, Di, Jie, Qiang, and Dingling rulers who took on Chinese dynastic names. The period ended with the unification of northern China by the Northern Wei in the early 5th century.