China is famous for going through a cycle of strong empires and fracturing and civil wars. But did people during times of small kingdoms see it as a “civil war” or as a war between separate states? Was there a desire or expectation that they’d all be united again eventually?

中國以經(jīng)歷強大的帝國、分裂和內(nèi)戰(zhàn)的循環(huán)而聞名。但是,在小國林立的時代,當(dāng)時的人們是把它們之間看作是“內(nèi)戰(zhàn)”,還是獨立國家之間的戰(zhàn)爭?當(dāng)時是否會有一種愿望或期望認(rèn)為他們最終會再次統(tǒng)一起來?