Feng Dao And The Political Situation Of The Five Dynasties

Since Zhu Wen eliminated and established the Later Liang, Chinese history had gotten into the Five Dynasties. The Five Dynasties is the history of the dividing period, the war is continuing, the society is chaotic, dynasties change frequently, the local separatist influences are strong, the political situation is complicated. Feng Dao is in the Five Dynasties, he is from beginning to end with the Five Dynasties, and he is active in the high official position in the later Tang Dynasty, the later Jin Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty ang the Later Zhou Dynasty. The political situation of the Five Dynasties has an important influence in the Feng Dao’s life and Feng Dao also played his part. We can know the development of political situation in the Five Dynasties from his life and experience.In the complicated background of the Five Dynasties, the central internal relations are very complex, the changes of central structure are very large, and the official system also chaned which the main part is the change of power in the central political system. Feng Dao is in the central political system, so his own development is affected by these relationships, and we can know the central internal relations from him. The central internal fight which contains the fight between emperors and ministers and the fight of the ministers. The emperors want to suppress the ministers and the ministers struggle each other, then it emerges the conplex relation of centre in the Five Dynasties.The Five Dynasties is the continuation and development of the Military governor during the late Tang Dynasty which set up a separatist regime and had new development. Feng Dao is a politician of the Five Dynasties, through whom we can know the development between centre and locality. At that time the strong locality was bound to threaten the domination of central government, so the central government took a series of measures to weaken the local forces, to control them and wield power. Then the central government weakened the local forces and achieved some successThe political situation of the Five Dynasties wasn’t stable, not only the contradiction in the central plains imperial courts, but also the aggression from other nationalities, especially the Khitan. Feng Dao was sent to the Khitan as the emissary of central plains imperial courts and he is the link relationship between the central plains imperial courts and the Khitan, so we can know the change about the relationship between the central plains imperial courts and the Khitan. During the Five Dynasties, central plains imperial courts and the Khitan still maintained contact which cotained peaceful communication and war. Whether to central plains imperial courts, the Khitan and our country’s national relationship, the effect of communication between the central plains imperial courts and the Khitan is great.Although the Five Dynasties has been the turbulent situation, the unified factors were growing. The power of the central government expanded gradually and the unified war pulled open the prologue, than the trend of history is from spolt to unity progressively.