The Wu Hu uprising (Wǔhú luànhuá, literally 'the throwing of China into disorder by the five barbarian tribes'), refers to a series of uprisings, occurring between 304 and 316, carried out by five non-Chinese tribes or tribal confederacies against the Western Jin Dynasty.
The five tribes, namely the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Qiang and Di, successfully captured the Western Jin capital of Luoyang as well as Emperor Huai of Jin, destroying the Western Jin regime, after which a large series of regional states and regimes are set up, the most prominent of which are known as the Sixteen Kingdoms ('sixteen kingdoms of the five barbarians').After 316, the Jin Dynasty's control is thus limited to territory south of the Huai River.
