How did the Tang Dynasty transition to the Song Dynasty? What dynasties did it go through?

In 904 AD, Zhu Wen, the military governor of the Tang Dynasty, abolished the Tang Dynasty and established the Later Liang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was officially destroyed. Jiedu envoys from various places proclaimed themselves kings one after another. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, according to the order of dynasties, it entered the period of division of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which lasted for more than 70 years from 907 AD to 979 AD. By the time of the last dynasty of the Five Dynasties, the Later Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Chai Rong, although he had great talents, was a pity. After his early death, his youngest son Chai Zongxun was led by Zhao Kuangyin, who had military power, to launch the Chenqiao mutiny. He staged a yellow robe and usurped the throne, established the Northern Song Dynasty, and thus entered the Song Dynasty.

The transition from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the northern region experienced three regimes: the Later Liang, the Later Tang, the Later Jin, the Later Han and the Later Wu. They were called the Five Dynasties, except for the Central Plains. Outside the region, more than ten separatist regimes including the Former Shu, Later Shu, Southern Wu, Southern Tang, Wuyue, Fujian, Chu, Southern Han, Nanping (Jingnan), and Northern Han appeared successively in the southern region, which were included in the "New History of the Five Dynasties" and later historians collectively referred to them as the Ten Kingdoms.

In the Hou Zhou Dynasty, the last political power of the Five Dynasties, a generation of heroic leader Zhou Shizong Chai Rong emerged. He was very active in political and internal affairs, and was very diligent in military affairs. After Chai Rong died and his son was young, the military power of the Later Zhou Dynasty was in the hands of general Zhao Kuangyin. Surrounded by his subordinates, Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao Rebellion, put on a yellow robe, usurped the throne of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and changed the country's name to "Song". So far the Northern Song Dynasty was established. The reason for "After Tang is Song"

The first reason may be because many dynasty lists record "Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing", so people only remember "After Tang is Song" . In fact, this is not the case. After the Tang Dynasty and before the Song Dynasty, there was a period of nearly fifty years of "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms". So let’s talk about the “Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” sandwiched between China’s two prosperous dynasties.

The second reason is that the magical emperor we mentioned above regarded the Tang Dynasty as orthodox, so he recognized the Tang Dynasty and regarded the Liang Dynasty as a pseudo-dynasty. Then after he became the emperor, he used The name of the country was "Tang". Then he claimed to be the fourth generation grandson of King Jian, the son of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone knew that this relationship was obvious at first sight. He established the Southern Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River and continued the legal system of the Tang Dynasty until the later master left the city and surrendered. The Southern Tang Dynasty perish. Because they all formally inherited the rule of the Tang Dynasty. And some historians believe that these two dynasties connected the Tang and Song Dynasties. It should be regarded as the orthodoxy of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.