TABLE
I
Liao emperors
and
their regnal
titles"
T'ai-tsu
(r. 9O7-26)
b
Tai-tsung (r. 927-47)
Shih-tsung (r. 947—51)
Mu-tsung (r. 951—69)
Ching-tsung (r. 969—82)
Sheng-tsung (r. 982-1031)
Sheng-tsung cont'd
Hsing-tsung (r. 1031-55)
Tao-tsung (r. 1055-1101)
T'ien-tso
(r.
1101—
25)
Hsuan-tsung (reigned in Southern Capital,
1122)
Shen-ts'e
1
T'ien-tsan
T'ien-hsien
T'ien-hsien
Hui-t'ung
Ta-t'ung
T'ien-lu
Ying-li
Pao-ning
Ch'ien-heng
T'ung-ho
K'ai-t'ai
T'ai-p'ing
Ching-fu
Ch'ung-hsi
Ch'ing-ning
Hsien-yung
T'ai-k'ang'
Ta-an
Shou-lung'
Ch'ien-t'ung
T'ien-ch'ing
Pao-ta
Chien-fu
916
922—26
926
926-38
938-47
947
d
947-51
951-69
969-79
979-83
983-1012
1012—21
1021-31
1031—2
1032-55
1055-65
1065-75
1075-85
1085-95
1095-1101
IIOI—II
1111—21
1121—5
1122
"This table lists information from
Liao
shih,
chaps. 1-30. Ch'i-tan
kuo-chih
has various differences. See the
note in Arthur C. Moule, The
rulers of China
(London, 1957), pp. 91—3 and table, p. 97.
T'ai-tsu's
accession appears twice in
Liao
shih,
in 907 and 916. Probably 907 is the year when he became
paramount leader of the Ch'i-tan, and 916 is the date when he became ruler of a Chinese-style Ch'i-tan
state.
T'ai-tsu's
accession and the dynastic founding are dated 916 by Ch'i-tan
kuo-chih.
Before that date, Liao
shih simply numbers the years. There is some doubt whether Shen-ts'e and T'ien-tsan ever existed: They
may have been invented later to push back the date of the independent Ch'i-tan state to 916. Ch'i-tan
kuo-
chih
dates T'ien-hsien as 927 to 937.
^h'i-tan
kuo-chih
omits Ta-t'ung and dates
T'ien-lu
as 948 to 951.
'Ch'i-tan
kuo-chih
omits T'ai-k'ang and Ta-an.
'Shou-ch'ang in Ch'i-tan
kuo-chih.
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