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In the spring the fourth year of the Tianyou 天佑 era of the Tang Dynasty (AD 907), in February, Yelv-Abaoji , prime minister of the Khitan Khanate , proclaimed himself emperor after holding a fire offering on an altar to worship heaven and the Khitan state was renamed the Great Khitan Empire with the title of tian chao 天朝 Heavenly Dynasty .
Translated by Wang Chen-xu 王晨旭 .
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Although some experts in historical circles regard “Heavenly Dynasty ” as the national title at that time, it was not generally accepted.
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漢班固《漢書 · 武帝記 》卷六.
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《遼史 》:“(神冊 )五年春正月乙丑, 始制契丹大字。”“九 月壬寅,大字成, 詔頒行之。”
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《五代會要 -卷二十九》: “契丹本無文紀, 唯刻木为信, 漢人陷蕃者以隸書之半, 就加增减, 撰為胡書。”
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李孝美 《歷代錢譜 》: “常歲虜使入貢, 人多博易得耳。”
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《遼史 · 兵衛志》: “每正軍一名, 馬三匹, 打草谷、守營鋪家丁各一人。人鐵甲九事, 馬韉轡, 馬甲皮鐵, 弓四箭四百, 長短槍, 骨朶、斧鉞、小旗、錘錐、火刀石、馬盂、粆一斗、粆袋、搭毛人傘各一, 縻馬繩二百尺, 皆自備。”
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Pei, Yb. (2016). The Liao Dynasty Coins Inscribed ‘Ten Thousand Years’. In: Fang, A., Thierry, F. (eds) The Language and Iconography of Chinese Charms. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1793-3_7
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