Later Qin
Qin, known in historiography as the Later Qin (simplified Chinese: 后秦; traditional Chinese: 後秦; pinyin: Hòuqín; 384–417) or Yao Qin (姚秦), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Yao clan of Qiang ethnicity during the Sixteen Kingdoms period in northern China. The Later Qin is entirely distinct from the Qin dynasty, the Former Qin and the Western Qin.
Qin 秦 | |||||||||||||||
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| 384–417 | |||||||||||||||
Later Qin in 404 AD | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Chang'an | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Emperor | |||||||||||||||
• 384–393 | Yao Chang | ||||||||||||||
• 394–416 | Yao Xing | ||||||||||||||
• 416–417 | Yao Hong | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 384 | ||||||||||||||
• Yao Chang's claim of imperial title | 386 | ||||||||||||||
• Liu Bobo's rebellion | 407 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 20 September 417 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||||||||
Its second ruler, Yao Xing, supported the propagation of Buddhism by the Madhyamakin monk Kumārajīva.
All rulers of the Later Qin declared themselves emperors, but for a substantial part of Yao Xing's reign, he used the title Heavenly King.
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