Founder of Later Han (漢祖)

Overview

Founder of Later Han was a ruler.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only

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AD 947 契丹入中原
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 107

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 124Volume 124 Book of Later Zhou 26: Biographies 4: Wang Yin, He Fejin, Liu Ci, Wang Jin, Shi Yanchao, Shi Yi, Wang Lingwen, Zhou Mi, Li Huaizong, Bai Wenke, Bai Yanyu, Tang Jinsi · 1 passage

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未幾，契丹入中原，時四方征鎮為契丹所召者靡不灊至，惟懿堅壁拒命，仍送款於漢祖。 Before long the Khitans overran the Central Plains. Of the military commissioners summoned by them across the realm, scarcely one failed to submit. Yi alone held his walls and refused their orders, while sending pledges of loyalty to the founder of Later Han.