Former Shu

Not to be confused with Qian Chu or Shu Han.

Great Shu (Chinese: 大蜀; pinyin: Dàshǔ), known in historiography as the Former Shu (Chinese: 前蜀; pinyin: Qiánshǔ) or occasionally Wang Shu (王蜀), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It existed from 907 to 925 CE.

Great Shu / Han 大蜀 / 漢
907–925
Capital	Chengdu
Common languages	Ba–Shu Chinese
Government	Monarchy
Emperor
• 907–918	Wang Jian
• 918–925	Wang Zongyan
Historical era	Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
• Foundation of the State of Shu under Tang rule	903
• Fall of the Tang dynasty	June 1, 907 907
• Ended by the Later Tang	925 925
Currency	Chinese coin, Chinese cash
Preceded by Succeeded by Tang dynasty Later Tang
Today part of	China
Shu had changed its country name from "Shu" to "Han" in 917–918.

China in 923; Former Shu marked brown

The country's name changed from "Shu" to "Han" (Chinese: 漢; pinyin: Hàn) in 917–918, which is not to be confused with another contemporaneous kingdom during the same Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the Southern Han (traditional Chinese: 南漢; simplified Chinese: 南汉; pinyin: Nán Hàn), 917–971 CE.

Rulers

Sovereigns in the Former Shu Kingdom 907–925

Temple Names ( Miao Hao 廟號 miao4 hao4)	Posthumous Names ( Shi Hao 諡號 )	Personal Names	Period of Reigns	Era Names (Nian Hao 年號) and their according range of years
高祖 gao1 zu3	Too tedious thus not used when referring to this sovereign	王建 wang2 jian4	907–918	Tianfu (天復 tian1 fu4) 907 Wucheng (武成 wu3 cheng22) 908–910 Yongping (永平 yong3 ping2) 911–915 Tongzheng (通正 tong1 zheng4) 916 Tianhan (天漢 tian1 han4) 917 Guangtian (光天 guang1 tian1) 918
Did not exist	Did not exist	王衍 wang2 yan3	918–925	Qiande (乾德 qian2 de2) 918–925 Xiankang (咸康 xian2 kang1) 925

Family tree
Wang Jian 王建 847–918 Gaozu 高祖 907–918
Wang Yan 王衍 899–925 Houzhu 后主 918–925

See also

• Later Shu

References

• Mote, F.W. (1999). Imperial China (900–1800). Harvard University Press. pp. 11–12, 14–15. ISBN 0-674-01212-7.

Further reading

• Wang, Hongjie (2011). Power and Politics in Tenth-Century China: The Former Shu Regime. Amherst: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1604977646.