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List of emperors in later Tang dynasty
List of late Tang emperors: Li, Li Siyuan, Li Conghou and Li Congke.

1, Li (885-926), that is, the Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty (reigned in 923-926), Xiaozi Yazi, a native of Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), a strategist in the Late Tang Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, and the son of Li Keyong, the king of Jin Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Li was an ordinary proofreader, who led Jinzhou secretariat from a distance. Later, he attacked his father as Hedong our envoy and Jin Wang.

2. Li Siyuan (867-933), namely Mingzong in the later Tang Dynasty (reigned 926-933), was born in Jincheng, Yingzhou (now Yingxian County, Shanxi Province), and was the second emperor in the later Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. His original name was Miao Yulie, and he was renamed Xu Li after he proclaimed himself emperor. Li Siyuan, the adopted son of Li Keyong, king of Jin, is famous for his bravery. Later, he assisted Li Jianli in the later Tang Dynasty.

3. Li Conghou (9 14-934), the post-Cheng Tang emperor (reigned 933-934), was a slave of the fine print bodhisattva, the third emperor of the post-Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, the third son of Li Siyuan in Ming Taizu, and his biological mother was Empress Zhaoyi. He has only been in office for five months and is twenty-one years old. In the post-Jin period, I mourned for Emperor Min.

4. Li Congke (885-937), the last emperor of the late Tang Dynasty (reigned 934-936), was born in Pingshan (now Pingshan, Hebei Province), the last emperor of the Five Dynasties, and was adopted by Li Siyuan of Mingzong. Li Congke fought with Li Siyuan since he was a child, and made many achievements in the war of destroying the back beam in the later Tang Dynasty.

The title of the later Tang dynasty

In March of God bless four years (907), Emperor Zhao of Tang Dynasty established Wen as Zen King, and Zhu Wen changed Tang as Liang, which was called ""in history. The State of Jin, the State of Qi, and the State of Wu still take "Tang" as the title, and still call "God Bless" as the title.

In 923, Li proclaimed himself emperor in Weizhou (now Anyang, Henan) and changed to Tongguang. At the end of the same year, Li destroyed the back beam and built Luoyang as its capital. Traditionally, Li did not use his own title "Jin" as the title of the new dynasty, but used "Tang" as the title, which was called "later Tang" in history. Tang Zhaozong's "God Bless" was always used as the year number until the girder was extinguished.

Therefore, the official titles of "pre-Jin regime" and "post-Tang regime" are still Tang. However, in order to distinguish the Tang established by Li Yuan from the Jin established by Shi Jingtang, the regime before Li proclaimed himself emperor was called "Qian Jin", while the regime after he proclaimed himself emperor was called "Hou Tang".