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China has a recorded history of some 3,600 years, beginning with the Shang
Dynasty(16th
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12th century BC).The first stage is the primitive society.
The history was much associated with the supposed pre-Xia Dynasty(21th-16th
centuy BC). The second major periob lasted from about 2,000 to 200 BC. The
history dated the beginning of the slave society from the Xia Dynasty,
which constituted the first Chinese state. The third stage extended all the
way from 221BC, when Qin Shihuang united China, to the Opium War of 1840.
Historical docments name the third period as the Feusal Imperial Rule. The
feudal society in China passed through a period of disunity beginning at
the Three Kingdom Period, and ending in shoet-lived Sui Dynasty(581
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618),
Western Jin(265
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316)via Eastern Jin(317
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439) and the Southern and
Northern Dynasties(386
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589).
The following story occurred in the three Kingdom Period. At the rnd of
the Eastern Han Dynasty(25
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220) a gtrat peasant revolt happened. Many
local officials developed into warlords to assisty the Han Emperor in
suppressing the rebellion. During this period the watlotds took the
opportunity to build uyp their own political and military strengty and made
themselves into autonomous regional warlords. Finally the warlords carved
the Han Empire into three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. The populous
episodic novel,The Romance of the Three Kingdoms traces the rise and fall
of the three kingdoms and vividly depicts the turbulent social conditions
at that time. The rulers of the three independent kingdoms struggled for
supremacy. Cao Cao and his son established the kingdom of Wei at Loyang. He
was in actual control of only the North China homeland. Two rivals soon
proclaimed emperors themselves elsewhere. The kingdom of Wu with its
capital in Nanjing occupied dChangjiang Valley, The kingdom of Shu was
created with its capital in Chengdu. Ti was in the control of Sichuan and
parts ojf the highland of south China.
Wuhou Temple is much associated with the kingdom of Shu. It is the
place to memorate Zhu Geliang, Prime Minister of the kingdom. Wuhou was a
top official title conferred upon Zhu Geliang after his death. It is
unfortunate that no historical documents have recorded the time of its
establishment. However, Du Fu, a top Tang Dynasty poet wrote a poem of
kwhich two lines say as below:"Where would I find the Prime Minister\'s
shrine?Somewhere outside Jinguan, in a dense cypress glade."