Relationship Between The Ganzhou Uighur Khanate And Others

The Ganzhou Uighur Khanate was built in end of the 9th century and distinguished in 1028,centered in Ganzhou(Zangye in today).It was just period that the social upheavals and the split during Chinese history. First, there was confrontation among the five Dynasty and Ten States, and then was struggled for hegemony among the Liao, Song and Xixia(tangut)Dynasties. After the Uighurs migrated to Hexi Corridor from Mongolia in mid-9th century, they belonged to the Tibetan Empire firstly, and ruled by the Gui-yi-jun Regime in late. In end of the 9th century, the power of the Ganzhou Uighur expanded rapidly, shaked off the yoke of the Gui-yi-jun Regime, and came on political stage independently.The territory under the Ganzhou Uighur Khanate was limited in the Hexi Corridor with little population and weak power. Because it located in the important vital passage on the Silk Road, around with big and strong power, it faced up danger since the day when it set up. The Gui-yi-jun regime and Jinshan State from west and the Xixia(Tangut)from northeast attempted to annex Hexi Corridor, and furtherly controlled the vital route between Chinese and the west, they looked Ganzhou Uighur with covetous eyes. As far as Ganzhou Uighur was concerned, attended the relations with all great powers was still its basic politics to existence. They attached themselves to the Central plains at east where were turns the Five Dynasties, Northern Song Dynasty and liao Dynasty, allied with Khotan at west and kept friendly with the Tibetans and the Tartars at south and north. There were victory and defeat in the battle between Uighur and Jinshan stete, at lastly, they beated the Jinshan State. From then, the Ganzhou Uighur had controlled the whole Hexi Corridor. But before long, the Tangut rised abruptly and its power intruded into Hexi Corridor continuously and wiped out the Ganzhou Uighur Khanate in 1028.The economy of Ganzhou Uighur , similar to that of Xizhou Uighur, is both farming and stockbreeding, at the same time, trade is an essential of its economy. Ganzhou Uighur relied on the convenient locked, developing the exchange of economy and culture actively with other regimes around it, especially the Central Plains regime. Their actions promoted the trade along the Silk road where the trade caravans, embassdors and monks from the East or the west in an endless stream. The embassdors emissaries of Ganzhou Uighur arrived in Persia, India and Arab in west, and at Luoyang, Kaifeng, capitals of the Five Dynasties, Shangjin, capital of the Liao Dynasty and Bianjin, capital of the Song Dynasty in east and so on. The Ganzhou Uighur played important role on the Silk Road trade.