Former Shu

Short description: 10th-century Chinese kingdom

Great Shu / Han

大蜀 / 漢

907–925
Capital| Chengdu
Common languages| Ba–Shu Chinese
Government| Monarchy
Emperor|

• 907–918

| Wang Jian

• 918–925

| Wang Zongyan
Historical era| Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

• Foundation of the State of Shu under Tang rule

| 903

• Fall of the Tang dynasty

| June 1, 907 907

• Ended by the Later Tang

| 925 925
Currency| Chinese coin,
Chinese cash

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Tang dynasty

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| Later Tang |

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Today part of| China

Shu had changed its country name from "Shu" to "Han" in 917–918.

China in 923; Former Shu marked brown

Great Shu (Chinese: 大蜀; pinyin: Dàshǔ), known in historiography as the Former Shu (Chinese: 前蜀; pinyin: Qiánshǔ) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It existed from 907 to 925 CE.

The country's name changed from "Shu" to "Han" (Chinese: 漢; pinyin: Hàn) in 917–918, which is not to be confused with another contemporaneous kingdom during the same Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Southern Han (traditional Chinese: 南漢; simplified Chinese: 南汉; pinyin: Nán Hàn), 917–971 CE.

## Contents

* 1 Rulers
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading

## Rulers

Sovereigns in the Former Shu Kingdom 907–925 Temple Names ( Miao Hao 廟號 miao4 hao4)  | Posthumous Names ( Shi Hao 諡號 )  | Personal Names  | Period of Reigns  | Era Names (Nian Hao 年號) and their according range of years

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高祖 gao1 zu3  | Too tedious thus not used when referring to this sovereign  | 王建 wang2 jian4  | 907–918  | Tianfu (天復 tian1 fu4) 907

Wucheng (武成 wu3 cheng22) 908–910
Yongping (永平 yong3 ping2) 911–915
Tongzheng (通正 tong1 zheng4) 916
Tianhan (天漢 tian1 han4) 917
Guangtian (光天 guang1 tian1) 918

Did not exist  | Did not exist  | 王衍 wang2 yan3  | 918–925  | Qiande (乾德 qian2 de2) 918–925

Xiankang (咸康 xian2 kang1) 925

Family tree

Wang Jian 王建 847–918
Gaozu 高祖
907–918
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Wang Yan 王衍 899–925
Houzhu 后主
918–925

## See also

* Later Shu

## References

* Mote, F.W. (1999). Imperial China (900–1800). Harvard University Press. pp. 11–12, 14–15. ISBN 0-674-01212-7.

## Further reading

* Wang, Hongjie (2011). Power and Politics in Tenth-Century China: The Former Shu Regime. Amherst: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1604977646.

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