When the first millennium AD was about to pass, the Tang Empire, which once dominated the east, looked down on the world, and was the leader of the people, after hundreds of years of prosperity, fell apart, collapsed, and disappeared, and reached the end of the dynasty. From the Bohai Sea in the east to the Tianshan Mountains in the west, the Xing'an Mountains in the north and the Cangshan Mountains and Erhai Lake in the south, the Great Tang Empire has a vast territory of tens of thousands of miles; The empire; the Tang Empire in the Eurasian Continent, where the business and the sea are connected to the neighboring countries, the missions travel between land and water, and the martial arts and martial arts are conquered.Such a great empire has collapsed, it is hard to imagine how painful its decline will be!It is even more difficult to imagine, what kind of chaos is on the land that has lost its center and center of gravity!

In fact, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world has entered a great change.From historical data, we can see that this kind of major change has never been a natural process of replacing the old with the new, but a brutal battle for hegemony full of violence, blood and turmoil. The world fell into continuous turmoil and chaos. In terms of the pattern of chaos, this kind of chaos is mainly characterized by the warlords' struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, the integration of tribes in the border areas, and the alienation and differentiation of energy in large systems. The situation is complicated.

This kind of chaos in time and space is based on the evolution context of ups and downs, replacement and transformation, and interlacing and superposition. The turmoil knows no bounds. After decades of chaos, the establishment and rise of the Song Dynasty made the Chinese civilization glow with vitality again.This opportunity did not come easily. During the five dynasties and ten states between the Tang and Song Dynasties, hundreds of regional regimes rose and fell randomly.The direct result is that the top and bottom are in disarray, falling apart, chaos abounds, all industries are withered, and the empire is lost.

The Five Dynasties is a lost period in the history of China's thousands of years of feudal empire. The Five Dynasties was a chaotic period when various contradictions in the empire accumulated, intensified and collided. The Five Dynasties are the fractured and broken layers of the history of inheriting the core moral civilization of the imperial power. The Five Dynasties was an arena where the weak preyed on the strong, fought for power and profit, and was full of force. The Five Dynasties is a big game of subversion of high and low, social reshuffle, and human desire. People in later generations criticized the Five Dynasties a lot, perhaps because the Five Dynasties lacked spirit and ideals, and more of it was the grabbing and entanglement of immediate interests.

Criticizing the Five Dynasties is of no help, and it is still of some value to explore the mechanism of the social operation of the Five Dynasties. Does the readjustment of social movements require such a high price?The chaos of the Five Dynasties was deep, long, and widespread, which made people feel embarrassed. The administrative and military configuration of Li Tang's separatist regime planted the root of disasters for the military bosses in the Five Dynasties period. The warlord's consciousness of being the grass head king with a gun led to endless wars and chaos during the Five Dynasties period.

Those who lacked the banner of righteousness and rebellion became the source of the virus that infected the whole society from the moment Li Tang was buried. Therefore, the Five Dynasties were chaotic, selfish, disorderly, terrifying, helpless, and unstoppable. In a world full of opportunities and temptations, the military leaders who hold the army in their hands released tremendous energy.Disputes in troubled times, vicissitudes of life, the paleness, brokenness and rebirth of great principles, and the humanity, integrity and survival of small people are intertwined and colorful.Many strongmen who influenced and shaped the course of history appeared, and many little people with moral mutations and strange behaviors appeared.

To interpret history, it is easier to start by following the events, and it is also interesting with flesh and blood.Exploring events is inseparable from the fate of characters, and paying attention to motivation and results will enhance the three-dimensional sense.Speaking of the stories of the Five Dynasties, there are too many characters to count.Tang Zhaozong, the doomsday emperor who wants to be the "Qing Emperor" to recreate the world, Zhu Quanzhong, who is more cunning than Cao Cao, Li Keyong, who is proud and brave, Qian Liu, who is far away and close to attack, and Wang Jian, who is ambitious to steal Sichuan, is heroic. Li Cunxu, who was weak in succession, Yelu Abaoji, who unified the eight tribes of Khitan, Shi Jingtang, who was notorious for thousands of years of ceding land and betraying the country, Feng Dao, who has survived political struggles for several dynasties, and Jingxiang, Gaiyu, Ge Congzhou, Chai Rong who was brilliant and mighty but died young, and Zhao Kuangyin who was grand and heroic and decided to stop fighting.These "big men" came on stage one after another, staged scenes of tragedies and comedies, pushing the great empire into the abyss, and then to the peak.So what have these various so-called "big shots" done?why doHow is the process?What are the consequences?

History runs in the general trend, but history is also composed of turbulent big events and colorful small details and coincidences.Sneak into it, travel through it, savor it carefully, the taste is endless. Where are the major conflict points of the Five Dynasties?Let's try to dissect them one by one. After the Jin Dynasty, there was also chaos, and it lasted for a long time. It is said that the moral world was in decline, but there were still celebrities at that time.In the past few decades of the Five Dynasties, why are there not even a famous person, or even a decent article?We try to organize our comments.

The fall of the decaying Tang Empire smashed an old world, and the replacement of the Five Dynasties meant falling into an even more sinful old world.Did the Five Dynasties create and build?Let's explore together. Why didn't the Five Dynasties evolve into the Spring and Autumn and Warring States?Because the vassal town is not a relatively independent kingdom divided into enfeoffments, it has no economic foundation and social structure foundation.Why can't the warlords respond to everyone and sweep the world?Because the warlords are not the founders of a new era with a clear-cut banner, they are not attractive to the common people, and they still hold the pipa half-hidden to the crumbling old royal family, and they are not revolutionary and progressive.

The Five Dynasties smashed a decayed old world and old empire, but opened up a more corrupt and bloody new world. Leaders who appeared on the stage one by one could not find a new system to replace the fallen Tang Empire. The Five Dynasties Rebellion originated from the fact that the Tang Empire was too large, too systematic, and too developed. After the collapse of the Tang Empire, a huge energy vacuum was formed that was difficult to fill, and it was difficult to quickly emerge a single powerful force to replace it.For example, after the Eastern Han Dynasty and after the Qing Dynasty, this was the case.Only after a long period of time can the legacy energies of the old empire be dispelled, and new forces will be conceived in twists and turns, before they will move towards integration again.After the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the government, warlords and peasant uprisings destroyed the population, production, economy and culture of the society more and more deeply. The smaller it is, the more meaningless it becomes, until it stops moving.

Is the deformation and alienation of the Five Dynasties progress or regression?Is it an indispensable process, or a nightmare that should have been avoided?The Five Dynasties is a period of variation in the feudal history process. Its negative impact is to completely release the dark inferiority of individual destruction of the group and individual destruction of the individual in human nature, making evolutionary correction and regression extremely difficult.This is also the background of the founding of the country in the Song Dynasty, and it was a big problem facing Zhao Kuangyin, so that the Song Dynasty over-reflected the disadvantages of pluralism and openness in the Tang Dynasty, which was the deep-seated historical motivation for abandoning multiculturalism and pursuing ideological unity. There are too many topics about the Five Dynasties, and we savor them while drinking tea.