Why are Chinese dynasties not named after the actual dynastys that ruled them? For ex...?

Ancient China's political tradition mostly originated from the Zhou Dynasty. The short answer is that the Zhou Dynasty didn't put the family name as the name of the dynasty. So the dynasty afte…

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