Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)

Later Liang (後涼)
酒泉 (387–389),
三河 (389–396),
涼 (396–403)
Later Liang (後涼) 酒泉 (387–389),; 三河 (389–396),; 涼 (396–403)
386–403
	Later Liang in the northwest
Capital	Guzang
Government	Monarchy
Tian Wang
• 386–400	Lü Guang
• 400	Lü Shao
• 401–403	Lü Zuan
• 403–406	Lü Long
History
• Established	386
• Lü Guang's claiming of imperial title	396
• Southern Liang's and Northern Liang's independence	397
• Disestablished	403
• Lü Long's death	416
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Former Qin
Southern Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)
Northern Liang
Later Qin
Today part of	China; Kyrgyzstan

The Later Liang (simplified Chinese: 后凉; traditional Chinese: 後凉; pinyin: Hòu Liáng; 386–403) was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history.^[1] It was founded by the Lü family of the Di ethnicity.

All rulers of the Later Liang proclaimed themselves "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang).

Rulers of the Later Liang

Later Liang rulers in a 14th-century manuscript of Rashid al-Din's world history, the Jami' al-Tawarikh

Temple name	Posthumous name	Personal name	Duration of reign	Era names
Taizu	Yiwu	Lü Guang	386–400	Tai'an (太安) 386–389 Linjia (麟嘉) 389–396 Longfei (龍飛) 396–400
–		Lü Shao	400	–
–	Ling	Lü Zuan	400–401	Xianning (咸寧) 400–401
–		Lü Long	401–403	Shending (神鼎) 401–403

Later Liang

Lo Polou 吕婆楼

Lü Guang 呂光 (338–400)
Yiwu 懿武
(r. 386–400)

Lu Bao 吕宝
(d. 392)

Lu Zuan 呂纂 (d. 401)
Ling 靈
r. (397–)399–401

Lü Shao 呂紹 (d. 399)
Yin 隱
(r. 399)

Lü Long 吕隆
(d. 416)
r. 401–403(–416)

↑ Grousset, Rene (1970). The Empire of the Steppes. Rutgers University Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.

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