If the last princes were ashamed of their ancestors, then Yelu Dashi was the chosen son who honored his ancestors. As the eighth-generation grandson of Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, he turned the tide when the Liao Dynasty was about to die. He led his troops thousands of miles away, opened up territories, conquered foreign countries, spread Chinese culture, and established the unparalleled Western Liao Empire.
At the end of the Liao Dynasty, except for the sixteen states of Yanyun and the land of mountains and mud, all the rivers and mountains fell into the hands of the Jin people, and Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi was missing. When the country was about to fall, Yelu Dashi supported Yelu Chun as emperor in Nanjing to stabilize the situation of the court. After the death of Yelu Chun, he assisted Xiao Puxian in power and repelled the attacks of the Song Dynasty army many times, bringing hope of resurrection to the Liao Dynasty.
The Jin soldiers went south again, and the weather-beaten Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures could no longer live. Facing the dim Yelu Yanxi, the frustrated Yelu Dashi left with two hundred people and rebuilt Daliao thousands of miles away. He surrendered the Uyghurs, Kalulu, Seljuks, Khwarezm and other countries, and dominated the Western Regions. He was known as Jur Khan, the Khan of Khans.
According to legend, he possessed magical weapons such as the Gate of Alexander and the Fountain of Youth, which helped him defeat powerful enemies. He once defeated a hundred thousand Seljuk coalition forces at the Battle of Katwan and became the legendary King John the Elder of the East in Europe. In the Islamic region in the mid-twelfth century, it was recognized that there were five great monarchs, namely, Turkic, Arab, Indian, Eastern Roman, and Chinese monarchs, and the Chinese monarch they referred to was the Western Liao emperor.
It is a pity that the historical materials of the Western Liao Dynasty are generally good, and the Chinese people know very little about this classic that is more than a hundred years old. This story is based on historical data and shapes the
