From the Year of Taiping to Returning to the Song DynastyInterpretation of "The Year of Taiping"Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. At the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, each separatist regime faced a life-and-death decision. The Wuyue Kingdom chose the path of peaceful surrender, which not only preserved the ancestral temple and the country, but also saved the people from the suffering of war.
The uniqueness of the "Wu Yue Model" is that it is an active peaceful reunification rather than a passive military conquest. When Qian Chu made the decision to "return the land to the Song Dynasty", the Northern Song Dynasty did not launch a military attack on the Wuyue Kingdom.
This "Wu Yue Model" achieved a smooth transition of power and avoided the destruction of war. Qian Chu's "returning the land to the Song Dynasty" saved the Wuyue area from the disaster of war, and the economy and culture were completely preserved and passed on. Moreover, the bloodline of the Qian family was preserved and allowed it to continue to enjoy a high status in the new dynasty.
Since its establishment, the Wuyue Kingdom has maintained a close and complex relationship with the Central Plains Dynasty. No matter how the Central Plains dynasty changed, the Wuyue Kingdom carefully handled its relationship with the Central Plains dynasty, taking the security of its territory and people as its primary task. Qian Liu's ancestral precepts had a profound influence on Qian Chu, and became an important ideological basis for his later decision of "returning to the Song Dynasty". During the more than thirty years of Qian Chu's rule, he experienced the succession of three Central Plains dynasties: the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty. He always abided by his ancestral precepts, paid tribute to the Central Plains dynasties, and maintained kinship.
In the era of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, when many heroes came together and wars continued, the Wuyue Kingdom was able to stay in a corner and maintain relative peace and prosperity.
