The Zhou initially moved their capital west to an area near modern Xi ' an, on the Wei River, a tributary of the Yellow River, but they would preside over a series of expansions into the Yangtze River valley.

The one major victory that Wu would have over Wei during this period came in 228, when, with Sun Quan's approval, his general Zhou Fang pretended to be surrendering to Wei after pretending to have been punished repeatedly by Sun Quan.

Just as Yu Fan predicted, however, the venture would end in failure — as Zhou He and Pei Qian, on their way back, were intercepted by Wei forces and killed.

In 241, Sun Quan would launch the last major assault against Wei of his reign, in light of Cao Rui's death in 239, but he rejected a strategy offered by Yin Zha ( 殷札 ) to attack Wei in coordinated effort with Shu on four different fronts, and the campaign ended in failure as well.

Afterwards, Northern Wei would remain a grave and permanent threat to the Liu Song.

While the novel actually follows literally hundreds of characters, the focus is mainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han Dynasty, and would eventually form the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Through his conquests, Cao unites the Central Plains and northern China under his rule, and the lands he controlled would serve as the foundation for the state of Cao Wei in the future.

Normally, Zhang Wei would be formally addressed as " Mr. Zhang " ( not " Mr. Wei ") but even informally he would be addressed as " Zhang Wei " and not " Wei ".

:: King Wei of Chu, having heard of the ability of Chuang Chau, sent messengers with large gifts to bring him to his court, and promising also that he would make him his chief minister.

This situation would end with the partition of Jin, whereby the state was divided between the houses of Han, Zhao and Wei, creating the situation of seven major warring states.

Emperor Xian did so, and Cao Pi formally declined three times ( a model that would be followed by future usurpers in Chinese history ), and then finally accepted, ending the Han Dynasty and starting a new Wei Dynasty.

By the time of his grandson Emperor Xiaoming, Northern Wei was in substantial upheaval due to agrarian revolts, and by 534 had been divided into two halves, each of which would soon be taken over by warlords.

Also that year, she started the building of her future tomb at Fang Mountain ( 方山 ), near Pingcheng, leaving instructions that after she died that it would be unnecessary for her to be buried with her husband Emperor Wengcheng, who was buried near the old Northern Wei capital Shengle ( 盛樂, in modern Hohhot, Inner Mongolia ).

In the aforementioned dialogue of Zhuge Liang, Zhuge presumed that numbers alone would help him prevail over his rival, without considering giving more power to veteran generals like Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and others ; it was only after his failure did Zhuge realize army size alone did not determine the outcome of a battle.

When Liu Shan's regent Zhuge Liang had his first northern expedition in 228, Jiang Wei's commanding officer suspected him of secretly wishing to join Zhuge Liang, and once, when Jiang Wei was outside the city walls with his troops, they closed the city gates and would not allow Jiang Wei to re-enter.

* Wei Qing, a general of Han Dynasty, who strike Xiongnu deeply leading Chinese army and enabled Han control Western Regions later

The later part of this period was marked by the collapse of the tripartite situation: first the conquest of Shu by Wei ( 263 ), then the overthrow of Wei by the Jin Dynasty ( 265 ), and the destruction of Wu by Jin ( 280 ).

Next, Qin armies launched assaults to the east, and later the south as well ; they took the Wei city of Daliang ( now called Kaifeng ) in 225 BC and forced the Chu to surrender by 223 BC.

The later Wei statesman Ximen Bao, who served Marquis Wen of Wei ( 445-396 BC ), was the first hydraulic engineer of China to have created a large irrigation canal system.

However, Zhuge Liang opposed ending the alliance and in fact confirmed it with a formal treaty later that year, in which the two states pledged to support each other and divide Wei equally if they could conquer it.

According to Wei Yuan's work Military history of the Qing Dynasty (), the Later Jin sent 400 troops to Sakhalin in 1616, after a newfound interest because of northern Japanese contacts with the area, but later withdrew as it was considered there was no threat from the island.

The Chinese surname Yuan was later adopted by the Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei to replace Tuoba, and approximates the meanings of " origin " or " round " in the Chinese language.

Most of the deviations occur later in the game, particularly involving the invasions of the other ruling powers, the Kingdom of Sun Wu and the Kingdom of Cao Wei.

He was said to have borrowed the legal elements of his theories from the Canon of Laws, a legal code attributed to Li Kui of the State of Wei, but this book is now considered to be a later forgery.

Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (( 北 ) 魏孝文帝 ) ( October 13, 467 – April 26, 499 ), personal name né Tuoba Hong ( 拓拔宏 ), later Yuan Hong ( 元宏 ), was an emperor of the Chinese / Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei from September 20, 471 to April 26, 499.

** Yuan Ke ( 元恪 ) ( b. 483 ), the Crown Prince ( created 497 ), later Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei

Jiang Wei became a prominent general of Shu later and inherited Zhuge Liang's ideals.

Months later, Cao Pi forced Emperor Xian to abdicate and declared himself emperor of Cao Wei.

Its name came from 213, when Cao Cao's feudal holdings were given the name Wei ; historians often add the prefix Cao ( 曹, from Cao Cao's family name ) to distinguish it from the other states in Chinese history also known as Wei, such as the earlier Wei state during the Warring States Period, and the later Northern Wei state.

Two years later, Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan forced Cao Huan to abdicate in his favour, replacing Wei with the Jin Dynasty.

The Chinese language gazetteer " Haiguo tuzhi " (' Illustrated Gazetteer of the Sea Kingdoms ') by Wei Yuan in 1844 ( with material influenced by the " Sizhou zhi " of Lin Zexu ) was printed in Japan two decades later 1854.

The Northern Wei, for instance, established the Six Garrisons bordering the Rouran, which later became the foci of several major mutinies in the early 6th century.

He later served another warlord Cao Cao and the state of Cao Wei, founded by Cao Cao's successor Cao Pi, during the Three Kingdoms period.

In summer 291, Empress Jia had Emperor Hui personally write an edict to Sima Wei, ordering him to have Sima Liang and Wei removed from their offices.

Meanwhile, Li Yuan wrote another rebel leader, Li Mi the Duke of Wei, who was near Luoyang, trying to see if Li Mi would be willing to follow him, but Li Mi, believing in his own strength, had his secretary Zu Junyan ( 祖君彥 ) write Li Yuan for him in this way:

The Yi script, also historically known as Cuan Wen () or Wei Shu (), is used to write the Yi languages.

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

Wei Shuo was a well-known calligrapher of Eastern Jin Dynasty who established consequential rules about the Regular Script.

He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting ( 画论 ), Introduction of Famous Paintings of Wei and Jin Dynasties ( 魏晋胜流画赞 ) and Painting Yuntai Mountain ( 画云台山记 ).

When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Grand Count Tàibó of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.

The author-scholar Ho Wei described most exactly the process in about 1095 CE, which suggests the Chinese were unaware nickel was a metal in its own right.

On the verge of conquering Wei, the leaders of Zhao and Han fell into disagreement about what to do with Wei, and both armies abruptly retreated.

King Hui of Wei ( 370-319 ) set about restoring the state.

Xiahou Dun questioned Cao Cao about it, and Cao stated that great generals should belong to great lands, and that the land of Wei was not grand enough for a general of Xiahou's caliber.

Sima Qian did not mention Jizi in his section on contemporary Joseon ( i. e. northwestern Korea ), where Wei Man's kingdom had flourished since about 194 BC until it was conquered by the Han Dynasty in 108 BC.

He was supported by his allies, the tribes along the five creeks further south of Jing Province, amongst them, the strongest was the Wuling tribal king Shamoke, who commanded warriors numbering tens of thousands ; while the forces of Wu was anticipating a probable invasion from the state of Wei, and had the army split: the Wu forces in Xiaoting amounted to about 50, 000.

Jiang Wei quickly realized that Wei was about to attack and petitioned Liu Shan to send forces to block off the key passes, but Huang Hao, believing in fortunetellers, disagreed and persuaded Liu Shan to take no actions on Jiang Wei's petition.

In recent decades, archaeologists have found a significant number of treasure hoards that were buried in the Wei valley about the time the Zhou were expelled.

Wei lived in remote rural areas in Northern China and was able to speak with peasant farmers about the widespread famines that had occurred a few years before, during the Great Leap Forward.

There is two opinions about the representing star of Wei in Chinese astronomy.

In a widely cited account of the war, Wei Yuan wrote that about 40 % of the Zunghar households were killed by smallpox, 20 % fled to Russia or Kazakh tribes, and 30 % were killed by the army, leaving no yurts in an area of several thousands li except those of the surrendered.

Wei Shuo (, 272 – 349 ), courtesy name Mouyi ( 茂猗 ), sobriquet He ' nan ( 和南 ), commonly addressed just as Lady Wei ( 衛夫人 ), was a Chinese calligrapher of Eastern Jin, who established consequential rules about the regular script.

It is revealing that the Nihon Shoki editors chose to omit the Wei Zhi particulars about Himiko.

While the Wei Zhi described her as an important ruler in 3rd-century Japan, early Japanese historians purposely avoided naming Himiko, even when the Nihon Shoki quoted the Wei Zhi about envoys from Wa.

The 3rd-century Chinese Wei Zhi (" Records of Wei ") provides details about shaman Queen Himiko and her communications with Emperors Cao Rui and Cao Fang.