The Research Of Political And Military Relationships Between Five Dynasties And Ten Countries

Ten Countries during the periods of Five Dynasties were full of wars and the regimes changed frequently. Five Dynasties had complex political and military relationships with Ten Countries. They tried their best to maintain survival through political and military means. And this formed a separate entironment map based on their relatively balanced strength. The key to change the situation is to engender a knocked-down power which can break the balance. The dissertation tries to do a systemic research about political and military relationships between Five Dynasties and Ten Countries, Then we can analyze the essential of their relationships and the impact on their survival, which can make us understand the reasons of the existence of separate entironment and the significance of national reunification in the Northern Song Dynasty. The whole text divides into six parts.Chapter one: the relationship with HuaiNan. This section is the core of the fulltext which analyzes the key factors of South-North separateness——Five Dynastiescontended for hegemony with HuaiNan. Reveals this kind of relationship had decisive impact on the current political situation in that period. Most of other countries came into being their survival strategy by dealing with relationships with Five Dynasties and HuaiNan.Chapter two: the relationships with Wuyue and Chu .this section introduce survival strategy of Wuyue and Chu through attaching them to five Dynasties . analyzes the reasons they did this. Reveals the essential of their relationships.Chapter three: the relationships with Shu and later Shu. this section main research Shu which took advantage of his strategic place to antagonize Five Dynasties and protect itself. shows the decline of Central Plain Regimes is the fundamental reason of Shu's separateness.Chapter four: the relationship with northern Han. HeDong had decisive impact on Five Dynasties's situation. Though Northern Han occupied this strategic place, associated with Khitan, took later Zhou as his enemy, didn't gain achievement. This showed that with the development of later Zhou. The situation of separateness would be over. Chapter five: the relationships with JingNan,Southern Han and Min. The characters of the three countries were that they were small and weak and they did not had firm political position. JingNan usually swung between Five Dynasties and HuaiNan,Shu. Though Southern Han and Min took Five Dynasties as their suzerain at the beginning, they set up their countries in the end. And their destiny depended on the political situation of Five Dynasties.Chapter six: the Ten Countries' relationships under contending for hegemony between HuaiNan and Central plain. This section main research Ten Countries' relationships. We can find that they took their own Countries' interest first through analyzing their cooperation and competition.