Title: Chinese painting - Qin (221–206 bce) and Han (206 bce–220 ce) dynasties | Britannica
Headings: Qin
(221–206
bce
) and Han (206
bce
–220
ce
) dynasties

Qin (221–206 bce) and Han (206 bce –220 ce) dynasties
From 220 to 1206 ce
Three Kingdoms (220–280) and Six Dynasties (220–589)

Content: the other continues the dynamic linear convention already noted on the embroidered textiles from Jiangling, in the Warring States period (475–221 bce ), as well as on late Zhou painted lacquers, on inlaid bronze tubes used as canopy fittings for chariots, and on woven silks found at Noin-ula, in Mongolia. Elsewhere, in the late Han, a new feeling for pictorial space in a more open outdoor setting appeared on molded bricks decorating tombs near Chengdu; these portrayed hunting and harvesting, the local salt-mining industry, and other subjects. Landscape scene from a bronze fitting of a chariot canopy from Dingxian, Hebei province, drawing, c. 2nd–1st century bc, Western Han dynasty; in the Hebei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, China. Zhang Ping/ChinaStock Photo Library
From 220 to 1206 ce
Three Kingdoms (220–280) and Six Dynasties (220–589)
For 60 years after the fall of Han, China was divided between three native dynasties: the Wei in the north, Wu in the southeast, and Shuhan in the west. It was briefly reunited under the Xi (Western) Jin; but in 311 Luoyang and in 316 Chang’an fell to the invading Xiongnu, and before long the whole of northern China was occupied by barbarian tribes who set up one petty kingdom after another until, in 439, a Turkish tribe, the Tuoba, brought the region under their rule as the Bei (Northern) Wei dynasty. They established a capital at Pingcheng (modern Datong) in Shanxi that they populated through the forced immigration of tens of thousands of Chinese.