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Relation | Target | Textual basis |
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type | dynasty | |
name | 北涼 | default |
authority-wikidata | Q1539360 | |
link-wikipedia_zh | 北凉 | |
link-wikipedia_en | Northern_Liang |
All rulers of the Northern Liang proclaimed themselves "wang" (translatable as either "prince" or "king").
Most Chinese historians view the Northern Liang as having ended in 439, when its capital Guzang (姑臧) in modern Wuwei, Gansu fell to Northern Wei forces and the Northern Liang ruler Juqu Mujian captured. However, some view his brothers Juqu Wuhui and Juqu Anzhou, who subsequently settled with Northern Liang remnants in Gaochang (高昌) in modern Turpan Prefecture, Xinjiang, as a continuation of the Northern Liang, and thus view the Northern Liang as having ended in 460 when Gaochang fell to Rouran and was made a vassal.
It was during the Northern Liang that the first Buddhist cave shrine sites appear in Gansu Province. The two most famous cave sites are Tiantishan ("Celestial Ladder Mountain"), which was south of the Northern Liang capital at Yongcheng, and Wenshushan ("Manjusri's Mountain"), halfway between Yongcheng and Dunhuang. Maijishan lies more or less on a main route connecting China and Central Asia (approximately west of modern Xi'an), just south of the Weihe (Wei River). It had the additional advantage of located not too distant from a main route that also ran N-S to Chengdu and the Indian subcontinent.
In 442, remnants of the Northern Liang royal family established a new kingdom in Gaochang, known in historiography as the Northern Liang of Gaochang (高昌北涼 Gāochāng Bĕi Liáng; 442–460). The new state was led by Juqu Wuhui and Juqu Anzhou where they would hold on to power until 460 when they were conquered by the Rouran. The remnants of the Juqu family were slaughtered.
Read more...: Rulers of the Northern Liang Rulers family tree
Source | Relation | from-date | to-date |
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北涼建康公 | ruled | 397/6/12神璽元年五月戊戌 | 401/6/26天璽三年五月癸酉 |
北涼太祖 | ruled | 401/6/27永安元年六月甲戌 | 433/6/3義和三年四月戊戌 |
北涼哀王 | ruled | 433/5/5永和元年四月己巳 | 439/10/23永和七年九月辛卯 |
北涼拓王 | ruled | 443/2/15承平元年正月壬寅 | 444/6/30承平二年五月癸亥 |
北涼武拓王 | ruled | 444/7/1承平二年六月甲子 | 460/12/28承平十八年十一月戊子 |
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十六國春秋 | 4 |
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