五代文武共生 / Five Dynasties Military-Literati Coexistence

Five Dynasties military-literati coexistence names EP252 《太平年》之外的五代十国，什么样？’s claim that the age was “武夫当国” but not anti-institutional in a simple way. Military force made regimes, defended rulers, and often destroyed them; literati remained necessary for documents, commands, ritual language, tax administration, and cultural continuity.

The source uses [[FengDao|冯道]] to expose the moral difficulty of this coexistence. Serving multiple regimes could look like shamelessness under later Song loyalty ethics, but in the Five Dynasties it was often part of how administration survived repeated regime replacement.

Connections

• [[OuyangXiu|欧阳修]] and [[NewFiveDynastiesHistory|《新五代史》]] - later moral judgment.
• Historical Memory Contest - how later eras judge survival behavior.
• Military Personalization / 军队私人化 and [[SongMilitaryCentralization|宋初军事集权]] - military power and later institutional reaction.