The period of political disunity between the Tang and the Song, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, lasted little more than half a century, from 907 to 960.

During this same time, sections of southern and western China were occupied by ten, more stable, regimes so the period is also referred to as the Ten Kingdoms.

However, landscape art did not reach greater level of maturity and realism in general until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907-960 AD ).

In China, the Han Dynasty is replaced by the Jin Dynasty and later the Tang Dynasty until the 10th century sees renewed fragmentation in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

The Tang Dynasty (; ; Middle Chinese: Dâng ) ( June 18, 618 – June 1, 907 ) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

* Later Jin Dynasty ( Five Dynasties ) ( 936-947 ) ( 後晉 ), one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.

In doing so, he suggests that the historiography of the Three Kingdoms should begin at the rise of the Ten Eunuchs to power.

Many Chinese laymen extend the Three Kingdoms into the Later Han Dynasty, variably to 184 ( to the Yellow Turban Rebellion ) or to 189 ( the Ten Eunuchs ' coup ).

** the Later Han Dynasty and the Northern Han kingdom and the Southern Han kingdom of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms

The Song Dynasty (; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch ' ao ; ) was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279 ; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu of Song ( r. 960 – 976 ) unified China through conquering other lands during his reign, ending the upheaval of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

By the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period it was called Jiangning ( 江寧 ); in the Southern Song Dynasty the name of Jiankang was revived.

# REDIRECT Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms () was between 907 – 960 / 979 AD and an era of political upheaval in China, between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the founding of the Song Dynasty.

However, only ten are traditionally listed, hence the era's name, " Ten Kingdoms.

Thus, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ensued.

This is the official end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

These were known as " The Ten Kingdoms ".

In the waning years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the region was ruled by Zhou Xingfeng.

# REDIRECT Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( AD 907 – 960 ), a book called the Records of the Unworldly and the Strange written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated:

The King of Wu-Yue in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was often known as the " Dragon King " or the " Sea Dragon King " because of his extensive hydro-engineering schemes which " tamed " the sea.

* Later Zhou Dynasty ( 951 – 960 ), during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

spray fire device ) was a Chinese piston flamethrower that used a substance similar to gasoline or naphtha, invented around 919 AD during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Li Houzhu () ( 937 – 978 ), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang ( 南唐後主, literally " the latter lord of Southern Tang "), personal name Li Yu ( 李煜 ), né Li Congjia ( 李從嘉 ), courtesy name Chongguang ( 重光 ; pinyin: chòngguāng ), posthumously known as Prince of Wu ( 吳王 ), was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

** Wu ( Ten Kingdoms ), one of the kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

* Yang Longyan ( 897 – 920 ), King of Wu of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, also known as Yang Wei

The city, still known as Guangling, was briefly made the capital of the Wu Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Wu ( 吳 ), also referred to as Huainan ( 淮南 ), Hongnong ( 弘農 ), Southern Wu ( 南吳 ), or Yang Wu ( 楊吳 ), was one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China which was in existence between the years of 907 and 937.

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

Holy of Holies ), was prepared to receive and house the Ark ( 1 Kings 6: 19 ); and when the Temple was dedicated, the Ark — containing the original tablets of the Ten Commandments — was placed therein ( 1 Kings 8: 6-9 ).

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

They co-starred together in nine films: The Flame and the Arrow ( 1952 ), Ten Tall Men ( 1951 ), ( 1952 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Valdez Is Coming ( 1971 ), Ulzana's Raid ( 1972 ), The Midnight Man ( 1974 ), and ( 1977 ).

He is also known separately as the " Great Sage " ( 至聖 ), " First Teacher " ( 先師 ), and " Model Teacher for Ten Thousand Ages " ( 萬世師表 ).

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

He argues against the idea that Christians should reject their family for an ascetic life, which stems from Luke, contending that Jesus would not have contradicted the precept to " Honour thy Father and thy Mother " ( Exodus ), one of the Ten Commandments.

In 1974, the same year as the PDFLP changed its name into the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), it acted as a strong supporter of the 1974 Ten Point Program.

Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.

:: The Wuyue Kingdom ( 904-978 ), during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

** Wuyue, one of the kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

During Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, Wuyue Kingdom ( 907-960 ) made Hangzhou its capital.

* Wuyue, a state in modern Zhejiang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Kingdom of Wuyue (; Shanghainese: ), 907-978, was a small independent coastal kingdom founded during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( 907-960 ) of Chinese history.

Qian Chu (), born Qian Hongchu ( 錢弘俶 ), ( 929 – 988 ) was the last King of Wuyue ( reigned 947 – 978 ), a kingdom in southern-eastern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Qian Liu () ( March 10, 852-May 6, 932 ), courtesy name Jumei ( 具美 ), nickname Poliu ( 婆留 ), formally King Wusu of Wuyue ( 吳越武肅王 ) with the temple name of Taizu ( 太祖 ), was founder and first king of the Kingdom of Wuyue ( 907-978 ) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, ruling over roughly modern Zhejiang on the east coast of China.