Night Banquet - The Splendor Behind the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

Author: Du Wenyu
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book takes the Southern Tang as the narrative focus, yet it unfolds the complete picture of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. These fifty-three years are so turbulent and chaotic that even words like "chaos" and "turmoil" struggle to accurately describe its historical state. Taking the Central Plains, the center of the continuation of Chinese civilization, as an example, five dynasties replaced one another in the blink of an eye—the longest lasted seventeen years, while the shortest was merely more than three years. The laws and traditions of the ancestors were played with recklessly.