Comments by "Good Citizen" (@GoodCitizen-gm1tl) on "The Historian's Craft" channel.

Confucianism values loyalty very much but each change of dynasty in China was a result of disloyalty as ursup and coups made their successful ways. Each monarch family in China ruled the country for 200-300 years (long-lived dynasties) or 100-200 years or less than 100 years (short-lived dynasties) and got replaced by new monarch families who successfully overthrew their predecessor and proclaimed a new dynasty. All the dynasties inherited the same imperial system and Chinese culture but differed in fashion tastes, slightly different in architecture styles and could have the same or different laws. The new dynasty had the duty to complie scattered historical records of its predecessor and publish the official history of that dynasty, so Chinese history were very well-recorded and printed in a consecutive manner passing down from the antiquity to now. The last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, collapsed in 1911 and its successor the ROC was ravaged by wars and the new successor PRC (which overthrew the ROC in 1949) is still in the middle of processing the official history of the Qing dynasty which is not yet published yet. When China was split into different kingdoms, they would fight with each other all the time in attempts to unify all under eventually one kingdom, which usually culminated in the refunification of China. This cycle of "the empire long united must divide and the empire long divided must unite" was very apparent in Chinese history.
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