Huang dynasty

Great Huang 大黄(Jin) Dà Huáng (Pinyin)
Flag Imperial Seal
Anthem:  永恒軍軍歌 Yǒnghéngjūn jūngē "Anthem of the Everlasting Army" Royal anthem:  天命永恒 Tiānmìng yǒnghéng "The Mandate Eternal"
Territory controlled by the Huang dynasty is shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled is shown in light green.
Political Map of Da Huang
Capital	Basingse
Largest city	Xi'hai
Official languages	Standard Jin
Recognised regional languages	Bayar Zhuang Others
Official script	Simplified Jin
Ethnic groups (2022)	90.3% Jin 9.7% others
Religion (2022)	State Legalism (official) 74.5% Folk religion 18.3% N'nhivaranism 5.2% Christianity 1.6% Azdarin 0.4% Other
Demonym(s)	Jin
Government	Unitary parlimentary anocratic semi-consitutional monarchy
• Emperor	Yingjie Emperor
• Prince Regent	Shunwang, Prince Huang
• Prime Minister	Cheng Pu
Legislature	Advisory Council
Formation
• First pre-imperial dynasty	c. 2070 BCE
• First Imperial dynasty	c. 221 BCE
• Conquest by the Bayarids	932 CE
• Establishment of the Great Khan's Court-in-Taizhou	1145 CE
• Great Kra Invasion	1353—1358
• Establishment of the Kra—Na dynasty	1358
• Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion	1672—1674
• Establishment of the ethnic Jin—Huang dynasty	1674
• Wucheng Heavenly Rebellion	1900—1902
• Republic of Jin established	1902—1931
• Corrective Movement	1931—1943
• End of the Republic and Reestablishment of the Huang dynasty	12 February 1943
• Current constitution (1991)	29 August 1991
Area
• Total	1,125,344 km2 (434,498 sq mi)
Population
• 2022 census	121,648,117
• Density	108.1/km2 (280.0/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2022 estimate
• Total	$1.387 trillion
• Per capita	$11,400
Gini (2022)	36.4 medium
HDI (2022)	0.79 high
Currency	Yuan (元/¥) (JY)
Time zone	(GST+8)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+7 ((GST+7))
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy CE
Driving side	left
Calling code	+16
Internet TLD	.jn

The Huang dynasty, officially the Great Huang (Jin: 大黄; pinyin: Dà Huáng), is a sovereign state in Southeast Ochran, situated in the Jin Peninsula, spanning 1,125,344 square kilometres (434,498 sq mi), with a population of 121,648,117. The country is bordered to the northeast by Seonko and shares maritime borders with Daobac to the south and Tsurushima through the Kaihei islands to the east. The national capital is Basingse, and the most populous city and largest financial centre is Xi'hai.

Modern Jin traces their origins to a cradle of civilisation in the fertile Yellow River basin in the Central Jin Plain. Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of hunter-gatherers, emerged into settled life as early as 7000 BCE, gradually evolving into multiple early Jin civilisations. The interactions of different and distinct cultures and ethnic groups influenced each other's development; specific cultural regions that developed the early Jin civilisation were the Huanghe civilisation, the Chiangjiang civilisation, and the Nanbei culture.

These early civilisations would set the foundations of several regional cities, eventually turning into city-states and petty kingdoms. The semi-legendary Kingdom of Wei in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Zhang and Liao states developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies known as dynasties. Jin writing, Jin classic literature, and the Hundred Schools of Thought emerged during this period and influenced Da Huang and its neighbours for centuries to come.

Early Jin historians attributed to the notion of one dynasty succeeding another; however, current archaeological, geological, and anthropological findings have shown that the political situation in the Jin peninsula was much more complicated. These political entities existed concurrently and would remain disunited until the third century BCE when the King of Wu, Wu Shi Huang, founded the first Jin empire, the short-lived Wu dynasty. The more stable Jin dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) followed the fall of the Wu and established a model for nearly two millennia in which the Jin empire was one of the world's foremost economic power.

Throughout its existence, the Jin dynasty expanded, fractured, and reunified; was conquered and reestablished; absorbed foreign religions and ideas; and made world-leading scientific advances, such as the Four Great Inventions: gunpowder, paper, the compass, and printing. However, by the late 6th century CE, centuries of disunity led to the fall of the Jin. The following Zhou (581–618) and the Later Wei (618–907) dynasties would reunify the empire. The xenophilic Later Wei welcomed foreign trade and culture across the Kayatman Sea and the Jade Road and adapted N'nhivaranism to Jin culture.

The Song dynasty (907–932) would replace the Later Wei and see an increasingly urban and commercialised economy in the empire. During this period, the civilian scholar-officials, or the literati class, would emerge and replace the military aristocrats of earlier dynasties with the introduction of the Song Imperial examination system. The Song emperors sought to avoid the same mistakes that had led to the downfall of their predecessors and introduce wide-ranging reforms to curb the power of the military. However, in 932, the Bayarid invasion cut short the Song reforms and established the Great Khan's Court in Taizhou, also known as the Zheng dynasty (932–1358), by Jin historians. Another foreign culture would conquer the Bayarid-led Zheng dynasty, the Kra, establishing the Kra–Na dynasty (1358–1674) before the Huang dynasty (1674–1902) reestablished ethnic Jin control.

The Jin monarchy collapsed in 1902 with the Wucheng Heavenly Rebellion when the Republic of Jin (ROJ) replaced the Huang dynasty. In its early years as a republic, the country underwent a period of instability known as the Warlord Era before mostly reunifying in 1913 under a Nationalist government with the Huang royalist forces spread thin and contained in the central and northern mountains. With financial and military aid from the Empire of the Latins, the Republic of Jin recovered from the disastrous Cross-Strait war before participating in the Hanaki War in 1927 to conquer their claimed lands. However, the Hanaki War ended in another failure for the Jin. The surrender left a power vacuum in the country, leading to renewed fighting between the scattered remnant armies and a reinvigorated royalist army. The civil war culminated into the Corrective Movement (1931–1943) and ended with a royalists coup from disaffected republican generals and civil servants who wanted an end to the instability. The Huang emperor was reinstated to the throne, and the military and civil servants reestablished the dynasty on 12 February 1943.

Da Huang has since periodically alternated between civil, monarchic and military rule. Whilst the emperor has been seen as the Son of Heaven and an undisputed autocrat of all under Heaven, this archaic belief in the emperor's divinity has slowly faded away from the new bureaucrats of the late 20th century. Dissent among government officials has led to the stagnation of the empire's recovery leading to foreign economic exploitation and civil unrest between the literati and the military, alongside a resurging Kra rebellion in the northern provinces. To circumnavigate this byzantine bureaucracy, the Yingjie emperor introduced the 1991 constitution as a compromise between the three estates, allowing some form of democratic rule to modernise its bureaucracy.

Da Huang is currently governed as a parlimentary constitutional monarchy; in practice, however, structural advantages in the constitution due to the compromise in the 1991 constitution have resulted in a complex parliamentary anocratic semi-constitutional monarchy system balanced between the military, the literati, and the monarchist. Da Huang is a middle power in global affairs and ranks moderately on the Human Development Index. It is also classified as a newly industrialised economy, with manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism as leading sectors.

Etymology

Main article: Names of Da Huang

Jinae (today's Longxi) and the Daobac islands on this 1530 map drawn according to the records of famed Tyresene ethnographer and medieval author Ahumm Bōdashtarti

The name Dà Huáng (大黄; lit. "Great Yellow") in its national language, Standard Jin, has been used by native Jin since the dynasty's foundation. Its origin is generally accepted to be named after the Yellow River though some modern scholars attributed the name directly to the founder of the early Huang dynasty, Huang Junyan. Another accepted argument for the source of the word is that it was adapted from the poem Mother River (Jin: 母河; pinyin: mǔ hé) authored by the famous 10th-century CE poet Wang Wei. The old Jueju style poetry depicts the Yellow River as the "Mother River" and the "cradle of Jin civilisation":

《母河》	Mother River
黄河滔滔万古情 母亲河润金夏生 源远流长浩浩荡 根基文明大地成	The Yellow River flows endlessly, with an ancient affection, As the mother river, it nurtures the birth of our civilization, Originating from afar and flowing endlessly, It lays the foundation for the great land of our culture.

While the name Da Huang has been used natively since the 17th century, foreigners did not use this name during this period. The Jin peninsular includes many contemporary and historical appellations in various languages for the Southeast Ochran country. Of the most common, the word "Jinae" has appeared on many foreign maps and records from the world's western hemisphere. Its origin has been traced through Latin, Mutli, and Tyreseian back to the Uthire word Jindā, used in the Tahamaja empire. "Jinae" appears in Akutze Selenecha's 1516 translation of the 1346 journal of the Tyresene explorer Ahumm Bōdashtarti. Bōdashtarti's usage was derived from the Scipio-Latinic word Jiña, which was in turn derived from Uthire Jindā (जिन्दा). Jindā was first used in early N'nhivara scripture, including the Tuntutan Roh (805 BCE) and the Tuntutan Kuasa (850 BCE). In 1655, Clímaco Casados suggested that the word Jinae is derived ultimately from the name of the Jin dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). Although usage in Tahamaja sources precedes this dynasty, various sources still give this derivation. According to the Latin Dictionary, the origin of the Uthire word is a matter of debate.

Da Huang is also sometimes referred to by its informal name "Zhongguo" (simplified Jin: 中国; traditional Jin: 中國; pinyin: Zhōngguó) from zhōng ("central") and guó ("state"), a term developed under the Eastern Liao dynasty in reference to its royal demesne. The name Zhongguo is also translated to "Middle Kingdom" in Latin and was used as a cultural concept to distinguish the Jinxia people from perceived "barbarians". It was then applied to the area around Qinjing (present-day Daxing) during the Western Liao dynasty and then to the Central Jin Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Zheng dynasty (also known as the Great Khan's Court in Taizhou).

History

Main article: History of Da Huang

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Jinae history

Prehistory

Further information: History of Da Huang § Prehistory

10,000 years old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18000–7000 BCE)

Regarded as one of the world's oldest civilisation, Da Huang is home to multiple archaeological and human-fossil sites dating from 680,000–780,000 years ago. Archaeological expeditions by the Daxing Academy have found various early human fossils, such as the Northern Snowman in Beixuefeng, the oldest fossil evidence of humans in Jinae, and the fossils of the Xian Man, a Homo erectus who used fire, discovered in the Xianren Cave home to the oldest continuously inhabited human sites up until the late 4th millennium BCE. The fossilised teeth of Homo sapiens, dating to 125,000–80,000 years ago, have also been discovered in Longdong Cave, Shannan. Humans likely already settled in Da Huang at the earliest 2.12 million years ago, evidenced by stone tools recovered from the Loess Plateau in northwestern Jinae.

The early Jin civilisations were defined by different and distinct cultures and ethnic groups that inhabited the various major rivers of the Jin Peninsular. Widescale agriculture varied at different times in the various regions, developing gradually from the initial domestications of a few grains and animals to the addition of many other species over subsequent millennia. The earliest evidence of cultivated rice, found by the Chiangjiang River, was carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago. They were home to the Chiangjiang civilisation, the oldest of the three noted early Jin cultures from this millennium. Early evidence for millet agriculture was found in the Yellow River, radiocarbon-dated to about 7000 BCE. They were home to Huanghe civilisation and are traditionally believed to be the origins of modern Jin proto-writing. The Jiahu site of the Huanghe civilisation is one of the best-preserved archaeological sites that feature 3,172 cliff carvings dating to 6000–5000 BCE, featuring 8,453 individual characters such as the sun, moon, stars, gods and scenes of hunting and grazing. These proto-writings would also be developed in the later Nanbei culture and the earlier Chiangjiang civilisation, as their interactions would help influence each other and set the foundations for several regional cities, eventually turning into city-states and petty kingdoms.

Early dynastic rule

Further information: Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Wei dynasty, Zhang dynasty, Liao dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, and Warring States period

Yinxu, the ruins of the capital of the late Zhang dynasty (14th century BCE)

There are multiple competing records of which dynasty was the first to rule in Jinae, though the earliest records point to the semi-legendary Kingdom of Wei (also known as the Wei dynasty). If these records were to be believed, the Wei dynasty ruled in Central Jinae around 2070 BCE. It would have begun Da Huang's political system based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, which practice lasted to the modern day. However, the Wei dynasty is considered mythical as historians have yet to prove if the Bronze Age excavation sites at Hebei, Shannan, are the remains of the Wei dynasty or another culture from the same period.

In contrast, contemporary historians and archaeological evidence confirm the succeeding Zhang dynasty as the earliest dynasty to have ruled Central Jinae. Founded by Tang of Zhang (Cheng Zhang), the Zhang ruled the fertile floodplains around the Yellow River in Central Jinae from the 17th to the 11 century BCE, traditionally succeeding the Wei dynasty—their oracle bone script (from c.1500 BCE) represents the oldest form of Jin writing yet found and is a direct ancestor of modern Jin characters. Excavations at the Ruins of Yinxu (near modern-day Yin), which has been identified as the last Zhang capital, uncovered eleven major royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites containing weapons of war and remains of animal and human sacrifices. Tens of thousands of bronze, jade, stone, bone, and ceramic artefacts have been found on the site.

The Zhang eventually declined due to various factors, including internal conflicts, external invasions, and changes in climate and agriculture. They were eventually conquered by the Liao, who ruled between the 11th and 5th centuries BCE. One of the most significant achievements of the Liao Dynasty was the development of the "Mandate of Heaven" concept, which held that the ruler's authority was based on the will of heaven, and a ruler's legitimacy was determined by his ability to govern with benevolence and effectiveness. This concept laid the foundation for the Jin belief in the divine right to rule and influenced the political structure and philosophy of subsequent dynasties. The Liao is also known for its advancements in agriculture, including introducing iron tools and new farming techniques, which increased agricultural production and population growth. This period also saw the development of a sophisticated system of writing and record-keeping, with the use of bronze inscriptions, which provided valuable insights into the history and culture of ancient Jinae.

The society in ancient Jinae under the Liao dynasty was feudalistic, with a king as the central authority. However, power was decentralised, and local lords were granted land and authority in exchange for their loyalty and military service. This practice led to the fragmentation and the emergence of powerful regional states and feudal warlords that slowly eroded centralised authority. Some principalities eventually emerged from the weakened Liao, no longer fully obeyed the Liao king, and continually waged war with each other during the 300-year Spring and Autumn period. By the time of the Warring States period of the 5th–3rd centuries BCE, only seven powerful states were left.

Imperial Jinae

Further information: Wu dynasty, Jin dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Zhou dynasty, Later Wei, Three Kingdoms period, and Song dynasty

Da Huang's first emperor, Wu Shi Huang, is famed for having united Jinae proper and ordering the construction of several marvel feats of engineering; this includes the lifelike terracotta soldier statues from the Terracotta Army, which was meant to guard the Mausoleum of the First Wu Emperor, to uniting the Warring States' walls to form the Great Wall of Jinae.

The Warring States period ended in 221 BCE after the state of Wu conquered the other six kingdoms and reunited the former territories of the Liao dynasty, establishing the dominant order of autocracy under the Wu state. King Zheng of Wu proclaimed himself the First Emperor of the Wu dynasty as Wu Shi Huang (Jin: 吳始皇; pinyin: Wú Shǐ Huáng) and enacted Wu's legalist reforms throughout Jinae. Most notable of his reforms was the standardisation of Jin characters, measurements, road widths (i.e., cart axles' length), currency, and the introduction of the jùnxiàn system (郡縣制, "commandery-county system") or prefectural system, with the establishment of twenty-two prefectures and a rotational system for appointing local officials . His dynasty also conquered the Yue tribes in the present-day Guanxi Circuit (Jin: 广西道; pinyin: 'Guǎngxī dào) and the southern Ba state , expanding the empire's borders to Jinae proper (present-day Da Huang borders). Wu Shi Huang ordered their ancient capital to be razed, and a new city would build on its ruins. This city would later be known as Basingse and would become the Zheng dynasty's capital city, retaining its status to the present day.

The Wu dynasty lasted only fifteen years, falling soon after the First Emperor's death. His harsh legalist reforms and policies and his purge of the old aristocracy from the conquered states led to widespread resentment from the peasants and the surviving nobility. This resentment would eventually cumulate into a widespread peasant rebellion after the First Emperor's death, allowing the surviving nobility to reclaim their ancestral estates and military power from their old territories, further developing the unrest into a civil war.

The civil war would culminate in the Chu–Jin contention, during which the imperial library at Xiangyang (present-day Danyang) was burned to the ground. The Jin dynasty would emerge victorious and rule Jinae proper from 206 BCE to 220 CE, creating a cultural identity amongst its populace still remembered in the ethnonym of the Jin people. The Jin expanded the empire's territory considerably, with their military campaigns defining the borders of the present-day East Ochran cultural sphere on the Ochran mainland. Jin expansion reached as far as the Great Northern Steppes, Seonko, Kwun Fong, the East–South Ochran divide along the Kra Maena river, and the borders of the Tsurushima southern Kitagan peninsula. Jin's involvement in Central Ochran and Lan Na helped establish the land route of the Jade Road and helped develop various Jin-influenced city-states along the route. Jin Jinae gradually became the largest economy of the ancient world. Despite the Jin's initial decentralisation and official abandonment of the Wu philosophy of Legalism in favour of Ruism, Wu's legalist institutions and policies continued to be employed by the Jin government and its successors.

Two Conquest Dynasties

Main article: Conquest dynasties

Further information: Bayarid conquest of Jinae, Zheng dynasty, Division of the Bayarid Empire, War of the Bayarid's Successors, Zheng—Tahamaja contention, Fall of the Zheng dynasty, Siriwang Eruption, Upheaval of the Western Barbarians, Long March, and Anachak Kang

See also: Seven Centuries of Humiliation

Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion and the return of ethnic Jin rule

Main article: Huang dynasty (1674–1902)

Further information: Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion

Cross-strait War and the Fall of the Huang dynasty

Further information: Sick man of Ochran, Late Huang reforms, Cross-Strait War, and Wucheng Heavenly Rebellion

Establishment of the Republic and the Hanaki War

Main article: Republic of Jin

Further information: Warlord Era, Hanaki War, and Second Cross-Strait War

The Corrective Movement and Reestablishment of the Huang dynasty

Further information: Corrective Movement

Reforms and contemporary history

Further information: Self-Strengthening Movement, Monsoon War, Gengzi New Policies, Hundred Days' Reform, and 1991 Jin constitution

Geography

Main article: Geography of Da Huang

Climate

Main article: Climate of Da Huang

Biodiversity

Main article: Wildlife of Da Huang

Environment

Main articles: Environment of Da Huang and Environmental issues in Da Huang

See also: Renewable energy in Da Huang, Water resources of Da Huang, Energy policy of Da Huang, and Climate change in Da Huang

Politics

Main article: Politics of Da Huang

Further information: 1991 Jin constitution

Political triumvirate

Further information: Royalist Party, Constitutionalist Party, and EAGF under Cao Fang

See also: Republican Revolutionarists in Da Huang

Government

Main article: Government of Da Huang

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Da Huang

Foreign relations

Main article: Foreign relations of Da Huang

Territorial disputes

Main article: Territorial disputes of the Jin

See also: List of wars involving the Jin and Cross-Strait relations

Sociopolitical issues and human rights

See also: Human rights in Da Huang, Social Welfare in Da Huang, Elections in Da Huang, Censorship in Da Huang, and Internal conflict in Da Huang

Slavery and human trafficking

Further information: Sex trafficking in Da Huang

Genocide allegations and crimes against the Kra

See also: Kra conflict, 2013 Jin anti-Kra riots, and Kra genocide

Military

Main articles: Everlasting Army and Paramilitary forces of Da Huang

See also: Cao Fang and EAGF under Cao Fang

Anxi J-94 4th generation fighter used by the EAAF

The Everlasting Army (Jin: 永恒軍; pinyin: Yǒnghéngjūn), more fully called the Standing Army of the Central Plains, (中原帝國常備軍; Zhōngyuán dìguó chángbèijūn) constitutes the military of Da Huang and is amongst the world's largest militaries. It consists of the Ground Force (EAGF), the Navy (EAN), the Air Force (EAAF), and various paramilitary forces that serve as the gendarmerie during peacetime.

The Everlasting Army have a combined manpower of 406,000 active duty personnel and another 345,000 active reserve personnel. The head of the Everlasting Army is the emperor, although this position is only nominal and highly contentious in the current political climate. Under the 1991 constitution, the armed forces were to be managed by the Board of War, which is jointly headed by the Minister of the Army and the Minister of the Navy under the direct supervision of the emperor. In reality, however, the armed forces are split between those loyal to the dajiang (大将; lit. Grand General) Cao Fang of the EAGF and the Royalist party, with some junior officers loyal to the Constitutionalists. Da Huang's official military budget for 2022 totalled JY¥54.09300 billion, accounting for 3.9 per cent of the annual GDP.

According to the constitution, serving in the armed forces is the duty of all Jin citizens. Da Huang still uses the active draft system for males over the age of 18, except those with a criminal record or who can prove that their loss would bring hardship to their families. Males who have not completed their pre-university education, are awarded the Public Service Commission (PSC) scholarship, or are pursuing a medical degree can opt to defer their draft. However, this deferment is subject to varying degrees of success; well-to-do citizens have been known to bribe draft officials, most notably from the EAGF, to dodge the draft entirely. Hence, the poor and less educated are often subjected to varying lengths of active service, with some serving for as long as the maximum five years of reserve training as a Territorial Defence Soldier. This practice has long been criticised, as some media question its efficacy and value. It is alleged that conscripts of the EAGF end up as servants to senior officers or clerks in military cooperative shops. In a report issued in April 2019, EAGF military conscripts are found to have faced institutionalised abuse systematically hushed up by the army authorities.

Historically, Da Huang's military has been mired in corruption and nepotism; the Eastern Depot of the EAGF functions as the political arm of the EAGF military authorities. It has overlapping social and political tasks with civilian bureaucracy, adopting an anti-democratic ideology recently. The military is also notorious for numerous corruption incidents, such as accusations of illegal trafficking, promotion of high-ranking officers in the form of nepotism, and deeply entrenching themselves into the Jin civilian politics.

Economy

Main article: Economy of Da Huang

For the economic history of Jinae, see Economic history of Jinae before 1902, Economic history of Jinae (1902–1943), and Economic history of Jinae (1943–present).

Income and wealth disparities

See also: Income inequality in Da Huang

Tourism

Further information: Tourism in Da Huang

See also: Jin World Heritage Site

Agriculture and natural resources

Further information: Agriculture in Da Huang

Science and technology

Main articles: Science and Technology in Da Huang, List of Jin discoveries, and List of Jin inventions

Historical

Main article: History of science and technology in Da Huang

Modern era

Space program

Main article: Jin space program

Infrastructure

Transport

Main articles: Transport in Da Huang and List of airports in Da Huang

Energy

Further information: Energy in Da Huang

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Da Huang

Ethnic groups

Main articles: List of ethnic groups in Da Huang, Ethnic minorities in Da Huang, and Ethnic groups in Jin history

Languages

Main articles: Languages in Da Huang and List of endangered languages in Da Huang

Urbanisation

See also: List of cities in Da Huang, List of cities in Da Huang by population, and Megalopolises in Da Huang

Education

Main articles: Education in Da Huang, Higher education in Da Huang, and List of universities in Da Huang

Health

Main articles: Health in Da Huang and Healthcare in Da Huang

See also: Medicine in Da Huang

Religion

Main article: Religion in Da Huang

Culture and Society

Main article: Jin culture

The Temple of Heaven, a center of heaven worship and a designated World Heritage site, symbolizes the Interactions Between Heaven and Mankind.

The Fenghuang Examination Hall, the largest examination hall for imperial examination in ancient Jinae.

Since ancient times, Jin culture has been heavily influenced by the Hundred Schools of Thought philosophies from the 8-5th century BCE. Of the most prominent, Fajia (Legalism) and Rujia (Ruism) contended to become the state's enforced philosophy for much of the country's early dynastic era, so much so that the line between philosophy and religion blurred, and one could no longer distinguish between the two. Promoting the two schools of thought provided opportunities for social advancement; one's high performance in the prestigious imperial examinations would allow one to promote their social class and improve their socioeconomic standing. The imperial examinations are thought to have originated from the time of the Jin dynasty. The literary emphasis of the exams affected the general perception of cultural refinement in Da Huang, such as the belief that calligraphy, poetry, and painting were higher forms of art than dancing or drama. This emphasis, in turn, transformed Jin culture into an inward-looking one focusing on the nation's cultural history and national perspective of the world. Today, examinations and a culture of merit remain greatly valued by the general populace, but their practice has been questioned and challenged by the political instability between the triumvirate.

Architecture

Main articles: Jin architecture and List of Designated Heritage Sites in Da Huang

Fenghuang County, an ancient town that harbors many architectural remains of the Later Wei and Song dynasty, including the Fenghuang Examination Hall.

Literature

Main article: Jin literature

Cuisine

Main article: Jin cuisine

Music

Main articles: Music of Jin, J-pop, and Jin opera

Cinema

Main article: Cinema of Da Huang

Fashion

Main articles: Jin clothing and Jinfu

Sports

Main articles: Sports in Da Huang, Jinae at the Olympics, and Da Huang at the Paralympics

See also

• Outline of Jinae