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{{Short description|10th-century Chinese kingdom}}
{{Distinguish|Qian Chu|Shu Han}}
{{Infobox country
|native_name            = 大蜀 / 漢
|conventional_long_name = Great Shu / Han
|common_name            = Former Shu
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|era                    = Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
|status                 = Empire
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|empire                 = 
|government_type        = Monarchy
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|year_start             = 907
|year_end               = 925
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|year_exile_start       = 
|year_exile_end         = 
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|event_start            = Fall of the [[Tang dynasty]]
|date_start             = June 1, 907
|event_end              = Ended by the [[Later Tang]]
|date_end               = 925
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|event_pre              = Foundation of the State of Shu under [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] rule
|date_pre               = 903
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|p1                     = Tang dynasty
|s1                     = Later Tang
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|image_map              = L.LIANG.jpg
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|capital                = [[Chengdu]]
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|common_languages       = [[Ba–Shu Chinese]]
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|currency               = [[Ancient Chinese coinage|Chinese coin]],<br>[[Cash (Chinese coin)|Chinese cash]]
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|leader1                = [[Wang Jian (Former Shu)|Wang Jian]]
|leader2                = [[Wang Zongyan]]
|leader3                =  
|leader4                = 
|year_leader1           = 907–918
|year_leader2           = 918–925
|year_leader3           = 
|year_leader4           = 
|title_leader           = [[Former Shu#Rulers|Emperor]]
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|footnotes              = Shu had changed its country name from "Shu" to "Han" in 917–918.
|today                  = China
}}
[[File:Five Dynasties Ten Kingdoms 923 CE.png|thumb|280px|China in 923; Former Shu marked brown]]
'''Great Shu''' ({{lang-zh|c=大蜀|p=Dàshǔ}}), known in historiography as the '''Former Shu''' ({{lang-zh|c=前蜀|p=Qiánshǔ|links=no}}) or occasionally '''Wang Shu''' (王蜀), was a [[Dynasties in Chinese history|dynastic state of China]] and one of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Ten Kingdoms|Ten Kingdoms]] during the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period]]. It existed from 907 to 925 CE.

The country's name changed from "Shu" to "Han" ({{lang-zh|t=漢|p=Hàn|links=no}}) in 917–918, which is not to be confused with another contemporaneous kingdom during the same [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period]], the [[Southern Han]] ({{lang-zh|t=南漢|s=南汉|first=t|p=Nán Hàn|links=no}}), 917–971 CE.

==Rulers==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Sovereigns in the Former Shu Kingdom 907–925
|-
! Temple Names ( [[Miao Hao]] 廟號 miao4 hao4)
! Posthumous Names ( [[Shi Hao]] 諡號 )
! Personal Names
! Period of Reigns
! Era Names ([[Nian Hao]] 年號) and their according range of years
|-
| Gao Zu|高祖 gao1 zu3
| Too tedious thus not used when referring to this sovereign
| Wang Jian|王建 wang2 jian4
| 907–918
| Tianfu (天復 tian1 fu4) 907<br>
Wucheng (武成 wu3 cheng22) 908–910<br>
Yongping (永平 yong3 ping2) 911–915<br>
Tongzheng (通正 tong1 zheng4) 916<br>
Tianhan (天漢 tian1 han4) 917<br>
Guangtian (光天 guang1 tian1) 918
|-
| Did not exist
| Did not exist
| Wang Yan|王衍 wang2 yan3
| 918–925
| Qiande (乾德 qian2 de2) 918–925<br>
Xiankang (咸康 xian2 kang1) 925
|}

{{tree chart/start|summary=Former Shu}}
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{{tree chart|border=1| Wjn  |Wjn=<small>Wang Jian 王建 847–918</small><br>'''[[Wang Jian (Former Shu)|Gaozu]] 高祖'''<br /> 907–918}}
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{{tree chart|border=1| Wyn  |Wyn=<small>Wang Yan 王衍 899–925</small><br>'''[[Wang Yan (Former Shu)|Houzhu]] 后主'''<br /> 918–925}}
{{tree chart/end}}

==See also==
*[[Later Shu]]

==References==
*{{cite book|title=Imperial China (900–1800)|author=Mote, F.W.|year=1999|publisher=Harvard University Press|pages=11–12, 14–15|isbn=0-674-01212-7}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Wang|first=Hongjie|title=Power and Politics in Tenth-Century China: The Former Shu Regime|year=2011|publisher=Cambria Press|location=Amherst|isbn=978-1604977646 }}

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