Since the establishment of China's first historical dynasty, the Xia Dynasty, in the long course of more than 5,000 years of history, many regimes have emerged, some have been unified, some have been divided, and powerful dynasties have even been established outside the Central Plains.
Western Liao Empire
The founder of the Western Liao Empire was named Yelü Dashi, the eighth grandson of the Liao Dynasty Yelü Abaoji, who led the Khitan to fight against Jin and was captured in 1123 AD, and the Jin people attached great importance to Yelü Dashi and married the Jin women to him, hoping to serve the Jin Kingdom and lead the Jin army to find the Tianzuo Emperor Yelü Yanxi. However, Yelü Dashi conquered the Jinguo women who were watching him with his personality charm, and in 1124 he escaped from the Jin camp and returned to emperor Tianzuo of Liao, bringing back a troop, and emperor Tianzuo was very happy. However, it was not long before a rift appeared between Yelü Dashi and Yelü Yanxi, and Yelü Dashi fled in anger, and half a year later Yelü Yanxi was captured, and Liao was destroyed from then on. Yelü Dashi was preparing to go to the last important town of The Liao in the Western Regions, Kedun City, there were 20,000 elites, no matter how dangerous the country encountered, this elite would not move casually, Yelü Dashi thought that if he could lead this army to fight against the Jin, it was very likely to restore the Liao state. Along the way, Yelü Dashi led the people to wade through mountains and rivers, breaking through many difficulties, because Liao still had a great influence in the western region, along the way they also received help from the ethnic minorities in the western region, such as the White Tatars who gave Yelü Dashi 404 war horses, 20 camels and hundreds of sheep. In the end, Yelü Dashi came to the city of Kedun, and gave a speech here, to lead the western expedition, revitalize Daliao, and constantly send emissaries to contact the southern Song Dynasty, Western Xia, and western regions, to isolate the Jin state diplomatically, the white Tatars befriended Yelü Dashi, refused to provide Jin with war horses, and played the game White Tatars did not agree to the Jin kingdom's false way to attack Yelü Dashi, and the troops led by Yelü Yuyan returned without success. In this way, Yelü Dashi gained a foothold in the western region, and Yelü Dashi cultivated in the city of Ködun for 5 years, and led his army to the west in 1130.
Yelü Dashi came to the territory of present-day Emin County in Xinjiang and built a city here, named Ye Mili. Yelü Dashi originally wanted the Qara Khanate to send troops to help restore the country, but the Qarakhanid State was now also in internal and external difficulties, so Yelü Dashi changed his plan and wanted to fight a world in the western region through his own army. Under the leadership of Yelü Dashi, he gradually made the surrounding small states his vassals, and repelled the Jin kingdom on the eastern front, and in 1132 Yelü Dashi officially became emperor, with the name of the country Daliao. Later generations were called Western Liao, Black Khitan and Hala Khitan. Yelü Dashi re-established the Liao Dynasty in the western region, still practicing the northern official and the southern official, and also adopted the Huairou ethnic policy towards the Turks, which was deeply loved. In early 1134, Yelü Dashi defeated the Eastern Qarakhanids and moved the capital from Yemili to Balashagun and renamed it Husihu'er. After the establishment of the Western Liao, Yelü Dashi marched west at the same time, but also attacked the Jin State to the east, contacting the Southern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and other regimes, Liao under the leadership of Yelü Dashi to prosper in the country, Kang Guo ten years (1143) Yelü Dashi died, the temple number Dezong.
At its peak, the Western Liao Dynasty covered an area of about 3.6 million square kilometers and lasted for 94 years. The Europeans spread the story of the Great Stone of Jerusalem to Europe during the Second Crusade: in the distant region of Central Asia, there was a king named John, who constantly fought against the western powers and defended Christianity. But there was no John king in the Western Regions, only a Chinese-speaking, Buddhist emperor, Jeru Dashi, and a Yelü Dashi, the whip of God, shouted by Europeans. Yelü Dashi spread khitan culture and Han culture to the western region, promoting the development and ethnic integration of the western region. Knowing that the Central Asians now call China the Khitan harmonic, after the death of Yelü Dashi, the Central Asian countries, the Song, Western Xia, and Jin party states were all called Dashi to the Western Liao Emperor. As a powerful country that has existed in the western region for nearly a hundred years, as a Chinese dynasty whose countries are not in China, the Western Liao spread advanced farming culture to Central Asia, and the imperial court still practiced the Khitan and Han government systems.
After the fall of the Western Liao, the Khitan nobleman Polohei established the last Khitan regime near Afghanistan, the Qi'erman Dynasty, which had been completely Islamized and did not practice the Han system.
What other dynasties besides the Western Liao dynasty were mistaken for not Chinese dynasties? We'll talk about it in a moment.