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Sui|sweɪ| Also Suy, Swi. [a. Chinese sui.] The name of a dynasty which ruled in China from 581 to 618 a.d. and re-unified the country after the divisions of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. Freq. attrib.
1738J. B. Du Halde Descript. China & Chinese Tartary I. 194 Thus ended the Dynasty nam'd Swi, the last of five petty ones. 1797Encycl. Brit. IV. 653/1 The whole of their [sc. China's] emperors..are comprehended in 22 dynasties, mentioned in the following table..Chin..Swi..Twang [etc.]. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XVI. 550/1 The tower of Kao-ming-chi, with its gardens, temple and pavilions, erected by Kao-tsu of the Swi dynasty. 1897J. MacGowan Hist. China xix. 261 Yang-Kien was forty-eight years old when he became Emperor... He gave his dynasty the name of Sui. 1910Encycl. Brit. VI. 195/2 This period of disorder was brought to a close by the establishment of the Suy dynasty. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. v. 310 We are concerned only with the Sui and the first four reigns of the T‘ang... The Sui Emperors were great patrons of Buddhism. 1969Guardian 2 July 3/2 A 15-inch terra cotta horse of the Sui period (seventh century AD), is offered for {pstlg}6,000. 1972Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. XXXVIII. 29 Much that is ascribed to Sui..should be placed in the opening generations of T‘ang. 1979A. Henning tr. Myrdal's Silk Road (1980) i. 11 Tashkent was known during the Sui dynasty. |