Romance of the Five Dynasties: Records of a Hundred Years of Wind and Cloud

Speaking of the general trend of the world, if things are divided for a long time, they will be united, and if they are united for a long time, they will be divided. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, chaos broke out, the Five Dynasties overtook each other, the Ten Kingdoms were separated, and the Khitans invaded the south. During this period, heroes emerged in large numbers, including Li Cunxu who restored the Tang Dynasty with three arrows but died of pride and extravagance, Chai Rong who failed to complete the Northern Expedition but died on the middle road, and Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao who mutinied and released their military power over a cup of wine, finally unifying the Song Dynasty. The conflicts in troubled times are all contained in "The Romance of the Five Dynasties".