Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, also known as the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, is the most frequent period of regime change in China's history, which is mainly divided into the Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei, Wu Zhou), the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Due to the long-term feudal regime and constant wars, the development of China culture in this period was particularly affected. Its outstanding performance is the rise of metaphysics, the introduction of Buddhism, the prosperity of Taoism and the introduction of Persian and Greek culture.
During the more than 360 years from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty, and in the process of the rise and fall of more than 30 dynasties, the above-mentioned many new cultural factors influenced and infiltrated each other, complicating the development of Confucianism and the image and historical position of Confucius in this period.