Liu Chengyou
Male, Deceased Person
0929 – 0951
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Who was Liu Chengyou?
Liu Chengyou, also known by his posthumous name Emperor Yin, was the 2nd and final emperor of imperial China's short-lived Later Han during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 948 until his death.
Liu Chengyou was only 16 years old when he succeeded his father Liu Zhiyuan who died suddenly. His reign was marked by arbitrary killing of his important ministers, and it eventually led to his downfall. When he killed the entire family of general Guo Wei in 951, Guo's army attacked the capital, and Liu Chengyou was killed by another inferior in a desperate attempt to escape.
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