Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Later Liang Dynasty


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 2 Dec 09)

  
  Henan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In the 11th century BC the Zhou Dynasty arrived from the west and destroyed the Shang Dynasty.
Northern Wei splintered in 534 and would not be restored until 589, when the Sui Dynasty reunified China.Sui Emperor Yang's costly attempt to relocate the capital from Chang'an to Luoyang contributed to the downfall of Sui.The Tang Dynasty that followed kept its capital in Chang'an (modern Xi'an, Shaanxi).
In the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that followed, Kaifeng was the capital of four dynasties: Later Liang Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty, and Later Zhou Dynasty.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Henan   (2328 words)

  
 ooBdoo
Another jiedushi of Hedong, Shi Jingtang, overthrew Later Tang to establish the third of the Five Dynasties, Later Jin Dynasty, and yet another jiedushi of Hedong, Liu Zhiyuan, established the fourth of the Five Dynasties (Later Han Dynasty) after the Khitans destroyed Later Jin, the third.
Finally, when the fifth of the Five Dynasties (Later Zhou Dynasty) was established, the jiedushi of Hedong at the time, Liu Chong, rebelled and established an independent state called Northern Han, one of the Ten Kingdoms, in what is now northern and central Shanxi.
Shi Jingtang, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty, the third of the Five Dynasties, ceded a large slice of northern China to the Khitans in return for military assistance.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Shanxi   (2100 words)

  
 Later Jin Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Later Jìn (Simplified Chinese: 后晋,Traditional Chinese:後晉; Pinyin: Hòu Jìn) (936-947) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
The Later Jin Dynasty held essentially the same territories as the Later Liang Dynasty, except for Sichuan in the southwest, which was lost by the Later Liang in its waning years.
However, after the death of the founder of the dynasty, Shi Jingtang, Emperor Shi Chonggui defied the Khitan, resulting in the later invading the territory of the Later Jin in 946 and 947, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin Dynasty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Later_Jin_Dynasty_(Five_Dynasties)   (442 words)

  
 Later Liang Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Later Liang (Traditional Chinese: 後梁, Simplified Chinese: 后梁, pinyin: Hòu Liáng) (June 5, 907-923) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
Meanwhile, Zhu Wen declared himself emperor of the new Later Liang in Kaifeng in 907.
However, the Later Liang was an embarrassment in the brutality it employed, causing many to want to deny it this status, but doing so would break the chain through the other Five Dynasties, and thus to the Song Dynasty, which itself was the successor to the last of the Five Dynasties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Later_Liang_Dynasty   (469 words)

  
 Ancient Liang
The Liang Dynasty was one of the Southern Dynasties, the Song, Qi, Liang and the Chen, which struggled against the Northern non-Chinese Dynasties of the Later Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Zhou.
The Later Liang was under the rule of Emperor Tai Zu.
Liang Menglung (A.D. 1527-1602) was the Governor of Shantung Province who, with Tu Tsemin the Governor of Fukien Province, pettitioned and got the Ming Government to lift the ban on Maritime activity, resulting in the great age of travel cummulating in the journeys of Admiral Cheng Ho.
www.angelfire.com /co/leong/history.html   (2157 words)

  
 CHKRM-President's Letter of the Month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We later purchased a bright red Chevrolet Nova for her, and it worked out fine, until I took it up in the mountains to hunt Elk, and damaged the transmission and some of the front end suspension.
One is the calender of the Later Liang Dynasty, one of the Six Dynasties, which was a period of confusion in China that lasted almost two hundred years, ending with the establishment of the short lived Sui Dynasty and then the famous T'ang Dynasty.
I have used the date of the Later Liang Dynasty for dating this period, because the record left by Hui Shen, does not appear in the Dynastic Histories of the T'ang Dynasty, but is preserved in the history of the Later Liang Dynasty, which is not part of the Dynastic Histories contained in most libraries.
www.1s.com /hkmission/history/chinese.htm   (1584 words)

  
 Tang Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From its establishment in 618 to its downfall in 907, the Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous dynasty in Chinese history.
The early period was a golden age, while the latter was a period of decline.
Later, Zhu deposed the Tang emperor and proclaimed himself emperor of the later Liang Dynasty, which ushered in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten States.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22799.htm   (281 words)

  
 Ancient China Dynasties: Five Dynasties and Ten States Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The prefix 'Later' was added to distinguish these dynasties from the earlier ruling houses of the same name.
Each dynasty was founded by the frontier commanders of their former states.
This form of worship, popular during the Tang Dynasty, survived and was used by the rulers of The Five Dynasties and The Ten States as a means to consolidate their influence over the people.
www.muztagh.com /china-history/five_dynasty/index.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Later Liang Dynasty
returned five days later and subjected the unfortunate city to what he himself called "a blood bath".
In the period of chaos that marked the end of the dynasty
new empire of the Liang (Hou Liang, Later Liang) in 907.
www.angelfire.com /co/leong/history3.html   (334 words)

  
 [No title]
Later, when the West, India, and China all had contact with each other, it was at first India that had the most influence on China, through the introduction of Buddhism.
Later, either one of these characters could be used individually to mean "emperor," as the latter became a suffix for the names of many [258]Han Emperors.
It is under the Anterior Sung Dynasty (420-479) that the tradition of dynastic histories was continued, with the publication of the History of the Later Han Dynasty (the Hou Han Shu) by Fan Ye (398-455).
saturniancosmology.org /files/fries/sangoku.txt   (13390 words)

  
 Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
While Shankara's views were later criticized as too influenced by Buddhism, they are more faithful to the Upanishads than the theism of the critics, who themselves seem increasingly influenced by the monotheism of Islâm.
A ruler in the Chou Dynasty was a
The fall of the Ch'in Dynasty soon thereafter was later seen as proof of the working of the Mandate of Heaven.
www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm   (12355 words)

  
 Five Dynasties Period and Ten Kingdoms Period
The dispersal of political and economic power that marked the collapse of the Tang dynasty resulted in a brief period of disunion known as the Five Dynasties period (AD 907-960).
The former was absorbed by the Liao and later accepted the Liao's overlordship.
While the Qidan were building up a strong state, the central government of the Tang Dynasty had been much weakened by the increasing power of the frontier commanders who were in charge of the country's military regions.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Dynasty/dynasty-five-dynasties.html   (630 words)

  
 Chinese History - Sixteen States 十六國 - Western Liang 南涼 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
Taiwan R.O.C. The Chinese Li Gao 李暠 - said to be an ancestor of the founders of the great Tang Dynasty 唐 - served the Later Liang Dynasty (Houliang 後涼) as local governor, before he declared himself Duke of Liang 涼公 and area commander-in-chief (da dudu 大都督) in 400 and established his own kingdom.
Li Gao saw himself as subject to the Jin Dynasty 晉 and tried to built up a civil administration although he had to rely on the northwestern aristocracy and large land estate owners.
Note: The rulers of the sideline dynasties are usually not called with their posthumous dynastic titles but with their personal names as they are not accepted as righteous rulers by official historiographies.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/rulers-xiliang.html   (232 words)

  
 Medieval Timeline - View the Entire Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Later, Kentish Kings are said to have claimed descent from Aesc (or Oisc), said to have been Hengist's son.
Two days later in St. Sophia, Patriarch John proclaims that the churches in the West and in the East are one and then reads a statement condemning a list of heretics, including the previous patriarch Acacius.
Later, when Beowulf is King of the Gaetas, his kingdom is attacked by a dragon, which he kills, although he is fatally wounded during the battle.
www.shadowedrealm.com /timeline/all.php   (6185 words)

  
 Zhuge Liang (Kong Ming) The Original "Hidden Dragon"
Zhuge Liang was born in 181 AD (the last years of East Han Dynasty), in the Yang-tu, Shantung province, China.
After a long discussion, Zhuge Liang was touched by Liu Bei's sincerity as well as Liu Bei's adoption of his plan for setting up a kingdom in the west and allying with the state of East Wu at the same time.
Throughout his life, Zhuge Liang vowed to resist the Wei (the kingdom founded by his antagonist Cao Cao) and maintain the independence of the Shu, though the state of Wei had several times more land and people than that of the Shu.
www.jadedragon.com /archives/history/liang1.html   (655 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Capital of China
Later Liang Dynasty during the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei in opposition to Chiang Kaishek during the 1920s.
Ye was the capital of Eastern Wei Dynasty and Northern Qi Dynasty.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Capital_of_China   (556 words)

  
 5. The Song Dynasty - All Empires
They were the Later Liang(907 - 923), the Later Tang(923 - 936), the Later Jin(936 - 946), the Later Han(947 - 950)and the later Zhou(950 - 960).
In 960, General Zhao Kuangyin, serving in the army of the Later Zhou Dynasty, was elected emperor by his disgruntled soldiers.
However the military was never as strong as it was in previous dynasties, and Sung armies frequently lost in confrontations with Liao to the west.
www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=The_Song_Dynasty   (1226 words)

  
 Teaching Chinese Archaeology, object 20 - NGA
Later Liang dynasty (A.D. From the tomb of Wang Chuzhi, Xiyanchuan, Lingshan, Quyang, Hebei Province
It dates from the Later Liang dynasty, just after the fall of the Tang.
Wang was a high official who died in A.D. 923, having served both Tang and Liang Dynasty rulers.
www.nga.gov /education/chinatp_sl20.htm   (409 words)

  
 4. The Tang Dynasty - All Empires
He had defeated the armies of the declining Sui dynasty, led by the fatuous emperor Yang Ti.
Later, after Shi Siming died in 761AD, his son Shi Zhaoyi took over his forces, until the rebellion was put down in 763AD.
The Tang dynasty was utterly exhausted by this terrible conflict.
www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=the_tang_dyansty   (1560 words)

  
 Medieval Timeline - Browse by Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The empire of the Tang dynasty was finally overthrown when the Chinese warlord Zhuwen deposed Aidi, the last of the Tang dynasty emperors.
The Late Liang would itself be overthrown in 923 by the Shatuo Turks from China's border provinces who would establish the Later Tang dynasty.
The Fatimid dynasty established by Al-Mahdi was named after Fatima, the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
www.shadowedrealm.com /timeline/century.php?Range=Tenth   (609 words)

  
 Liang Wu-ti Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Liang Wu-ti (464-549) was probably the most famous and most cultured Chinese emperor of the Southern dynasties, and his reign is generally considered their economic and cultural culmination.
After a short interregnum Hsiao Yen mounted the throne himself as the first emperor of the Liang dynasty on April 30, 502, assuming the name of Liang Wu-ti, or Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty.
On that date, and two or three times later, he left the secular world by entering the T'ung-t'ai Monastery as a slave.
www.bookrags.com /biography/liang-wu-ti   (484 words)

  
 Ethics of China 7 BC To 1279 by Sanderson Beck
Liang Ji was executed and his family wiped out in 159 by five court eunuchs, who were ennobled and given huge fiefs of 76,000 families each; the sale of the Liang estate was equal to half the grain taxes for a year.
Later Zhiyi petitioned Yang Guang to stop the razing of the Chen capital, particularly its Buddhist temples, and he complained after a thousand monks, who had come to hear him speak, were dispersed by Sui officials.
After the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907, northern China was ruled by a sequence of five dynasties until 960-Later Liang 907-23, Later Tang 923-36, Later Jin 936-46, Later Han 946-50, and Later Zhou 951-60.
www.san.beck.org /AB3-China.html   (20851 words)

  
 Informat.io on Five Dynasties And Ten Kingdoms Period
Three years later, in 907, he induced the boy emperor to abdicate in his favour.
He then proclaimed the founding of the Later Liang Dynasty, with himself as emperor.
After the founding of Later Jin, the Khitans increasingly began to view Later Jin as their proxy in China proper.
www.hierar.ch /?title=five-dynasties-and-ten-kingdoms-period   (1603 words)

  
 Tang Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Sui Dynasty, for its short life duration of 37 years and the despotic ruling of Sui Emperor Yangdi, was treated as part of the Northern Dynasties by Tang historian Li Yanshou.
Three dynasties of Five Dynasties, in between Posterior Liang and Posterior Zhou, were of alien nature, founded by generals who belonged to a group of nomads called Shatuo (Sha'to), a Turkic tribe.
Three years later, Simo, unable to harness his people, returned to Tang court, later followed Taizong in the Korean campaign (on which occasion Taizong sucked the blood from the arrow wound that Simo suffered), and at last stage died in the Tang capital.
www.republicanchina.org /tang.html   (6825 words)

  
 JWSR v5n3 - David Wilkinson
United Chao, with capitals at Loyang and Ye (Anyang), overawed the Yangtze state of Eastern Jin, the divided Toba Sienbi of Southern Mongolia, the Liang state of Kansu, the Former Yen state of the Murung tribe of the Sienbi in southern Manchuria, as well as the city-states of Kashgaria.
The Chao dynasty destroyed itself as its Hans massacred and destroyed its Huns, and were overrun by Former Yen 350-351.
Rebellions against the Southern Liang dynasty of the Yangtze State broke out in 529, 530, 533, 541, 542, 544, increasing in frequency, extent and participation.
jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol5/vol5_number3/wilkinson/index.html   (12949 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Yu Xin(513-581) who styled himself Zi Shan, was a famous scholar of later South-North dynasty.
Living and working through the Liang、Wei、Zhou and Sui dynasty, Yu Xin was not only a most important writer of Palace poem and Xu-Yu poem, but a literary master in North dynasty.
That is, the appraisal of Yu Xin and his works in the successive dynasties (including the comments), the collection of studies about Yu Xin and his works in the 20th century(papers and books), the preface and postscript of The collected works of Yu Xin, the works with certain writing time, the main books quotation.
www.albany.edu /~xw778685/isp523/word/abstract.htm   (264 words)

  
 Kaifeng, Regent Tour China
It was founded as the capital in Wei Regime in the Warring States Period, in the Later Liang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty in the Five-dynasty Period, in North Song Dynasty and in the late Jin Dynasty.
In addition, King Liangxiao of the Western Han Dynasty, the peasant uprising army in the late Yuan Dynasty and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, also established their capitals here for some time.
In the year 960 AD, Kaifeng was renamed as Dongjing when the North Song Dynasty made it the capital.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/kfg/kaifeng-glance.htm   (302 words)

  
 Henan - China Tour - Travel to China
Later on these were replaced with state of HanHan and state of Wei IIWei (魏).
The Tang Dynasty that followed moved the capital to Chang'an (modern Xi'an, Shaanxi).
In 1127, however, the Song Dynasty succumbed to Jurchen (Jinn DynastyJin Dynasty) invaders from the north, and in 1142 had to cede away all of northern China, including Henan.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Henan   (2031 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.