Five thousands years have passed since the first Chinese writing.
China has lived under 24 dynasties and about 400 emperors - kings.
The past is the mirror of Today.-Chinese Proverb.
Let us look now and then this huge mirror: today on the Emperors and Kings.
Here is a resmue of Chinese dynasties written in the History.
HuangDi
(Yellow Emperor),
Age of Five Emperors
-2700 ⇒ -2200
Zhou
Epoch of Spring-Autumn
-770 ⇒ -476
Feighting Kindoms
-475 ⇒ -221
-1066 ⇒ -221
Confucius
Qin
-221 ⇒ -206
Emperor of Commencement
Han
-206 ⇒ 220
Glorial Emperor (Han Wudi)
Three Kindoms
220 ⇒ 280
CAO Cao, LIU Bei, SUN Quan, ZHU Geliang
Jin of East and 16 Kindoms
317 ⇒ 439
Dynasty North-South
Dynasty of South
420 ⇒ 589
Dynasty of North
386 ⇒ 581
420 ⇒ 589
Five Epochs and Ten Kindoms
907 ⇒ 979
Song
960 ⇒ 1279
Song Taizu, YUE Fei, 108 Generals of Shuihu,
SU ShiMing
1368 ⇒ 1644
Ming Taizu
Qing
1644 ⇒ 1911
Emperor Kangxi (Peace and Sufficience)
Republic of China
1912 ⇒ 1949
SUN Yetsan, YUAN Shikai, JIANG Zhongzheng (JIANG Kai Shek)
People's Republic of China
1949 ⇒ ∞
MAO Zedong, DENG Xiaoping, ZHOU Enlai (Chou Enlai), JIANG Zemin,
HU Jintao