China: Painted mural brick from the Jin Dynasty (265 - 420 CE) and Western Wei Dynasty (535 - 557 CE) tombs in the Jiayuguan area, Gansu Province. (Jiayuguan Museum of the Great Wall)

The Jin dynasty, distinguished as the Sima Jin and Liang Jin, was a Chinese dynasty, empire, and era traditionally dated from 265 to 420 CE. It was founded by Sima Yan, son of Sima Zhao who was made Prince of Jin and posthumously declared the founder of the dynasty.

The Western Wei followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei, and ruled northern China from 535 to 557 CE. As with the Northern Wei state that preceded it, the ruling family of Western Wei were members of the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei.

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