In the third year of Qing Dynasty (1038165438+1October10), he proclaimed himself emperor of Wu Xingfa, the first ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, and changed his title to Li Yan, its capital and its name to Xingqing House. Xia was overbearing and broke off the relationship between clan and vassal with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty. In order to dominate the west and expand its territory everywhere, it was the peak of Xixia's force to go to war with Song and Liao successively.
1 1 15 years, the Jin dynasty rose, and the situation of the three pillars of Liao, Song and Xixia was destroyed. Liao Dynasty and Northern Song Dynasty were successively destroyed by Jin Dynasty, and Xixia economy was controlled by Jin Dynasty. Since then, the Mongolian empire has risen, invaded Xixia six times, and disintegrated the Jinxia Alliance. Xixia regicide civil strife many times, the economy tends to collapse. In 1227, Xixia died in Mongolia.
Xixia was founded in 1038, and its territory is in present-day Ningxia, northwest Gansu, northeast Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and northwest Shaanxi. There is the Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan in the south (now Tongxin South in Ningxia) and desert in the north, covering an area of more than 20,000 li. Xixia is adjacent to Xijing Road in Liao Dynasty in the northeast and Song Dynasty in the east and southeast.
After the Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao and Song, the northeast, east and south of Xixia were adjacent to the Jin Dynasty. The southern and western parts of Xixia are Tubo, and Huangtou Uighur is adjacent to Xizhou Uighur. More than two-thirds of the country is desert terrain, and the water source is mainly groundwater formed by snow water in the Yellow River and mountains. Yinchuan Plain, where Xingqing House, the capital, is located, is surrounded by Helan Mountain in the west and irrigated by the Yellow River in the east, which is known as "the midsummer of the Yellow River in the world".
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Xixia