 The Sixteen Kingdoms were a collection of numerous short-lived sovereign states in northern China and its neighboring areas (304–439), founded after the Jin Dynasty lost the northern part of their territory and were confined to their former southern territory, thus chronologically overlapping the end of the Jin Dynasty and the actual establishment of the full Southern and Northern Dynasties period (420 to 589).One noted poet of this era, somewhere in the fourth century, was Su Hui, a poet of the Former Qin state (351–394), which unified northern China, in 376.Typically, for female poets of this time and place in history, almost all of her literary works are lost.