南朝

Náncháo
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Southern Dynasties (420-589)
  2. 2 succession of four Han-Chinese courts (Song, Qi, Liang, Chen) based at Jiankang

Examples

HSK 6
Náncháo sìbǎi bāshí sì, duōshǎo lóutái yānyǔ zhōng.
Four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasties, how many pavilions stand in the misty rain.
HSK 7-9
Náncháo de shǒudū shì Jiànkāng, jí jīntiān de Nánjīng.
The capital of the Southern Dynasties was Jiankang, today's Nanjing.

Tips

culture
Du Mu's famous line 南朝四百八十寺 captures how aggressively Southern Dynasty emperors patronised Buddhism - Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝) repeatedly renounced the throne to become a monk, each time buying his way back at enormous cost to the treasury.

Stroke Order

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