Swallowing Thousands of Miles Like a Tiger: Biography of Liu Yu

He was the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (ascended to the throne in 420), and his posthumous title was Emperor Wu. He ended the rule of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established the Liu Song Dynasty, the first political power in the Southern Dynasties, marking the formal formation of the confrontation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He was known as the first emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and Xin Qiji praised him as "sucking up thousands of miles like a tiger." He is known as the emperor with the highest military force in ancient my country, but he is also a grassroots emperor who came from the bottom.