When the Stars Shine - Things About Song, Liao, Xia and Jin Dynasties

The volume contains more than 200 characters and more than 200 hard-core historical facts, using stories to tell the historical turning point of China's lifeline: in 916 AD, Yelu Abaoji established the Liao Kingdom, to the end of Yashan in the Southern Song Dynasty in 1279. In more than 300 years, the four kingdoms of Liao, Song, Xixia, and Jin waxed and waned. After the cession of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Central Plains lost the northern barrier for 455 years; more than 30 key battles at Sanchuankou, Haoshuichuan, Yancheng, Caishiji... Reshaped the territory; the Chanyuan Alliance obtained 120 years of peace between Song and Liao, and an annual coin of 300,000 horses; the Song-Jin Maritime Alliance (another version of Longzhong's chess game) and the Longxing Peace Conference, every diplomacy was staked on the national destiny. This book does not presuppose a position, but only presents historical materials. Based on first-hand documents such as "Xu Zi Zhi Tong Jian Chang Bian", "History of Liao", "History of Jin", and "Records of the Years Since Jianyan", it restores 12 key decisions that changed the destiny of the country, including the Qingli New Deal, Xining Reform, Yuanfeng Reform, and the Maritime Alliance. From party disputes in the court to border wars, from trade to envoy exchanges, the systems, military, and diplomacy of the four countries are dismantled one by one. This is not the tragic narrative of the "weak Song Dynasty", but a real struggle between four forces on the East Asian chessboard. If you understand this period of history, you will also understand how the two civilizations of farming and nomadism collided, compromised, and were forged.