Editing Sinicization (section)

====Northern and Southern dynasties====
{{Main|Northern and Southern dynasties}}
The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period in the [[history of China]] that lasted from 386 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the [[Sixteen Kingdoms]] period. Though an age of [[civil war]] and political chaos, it was also a time of flourishing arts and culture, advancement in technology, and the spread of [[Mahayana|Mahayana Buddhism]] and [[Taoism|Daoism]]. The period saw large-scale migration of [[Han Chinese]] to the lands south of the [[Yangtze]]. The period came to an end with the unification of all of [[China proper]] by [[Emperor Wen of Sui|Emperor Wen]] of the [[Sui dynasty]]. During this period, the process of sinicization accelerated among the non-Han arrivals in the north and among the indigenous people in the south. This process was also accompanied by the increasing popularity of Buddhism ([[Chinese Buddhism#History|introduced into China in the first century]]) and Daoism in both [[northern and southern China]].<ref name=ger>{{cite book |last1=Jacques Gernet |title=A History of Chinese Civilization |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern |url-access=registration |date=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521497817 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern/page/192 192]–193 |edition=illustrated, reprint, revised}}</ref>