“guo wei”

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(“Guo Wei” (郭威) (10 September 904 – 22 February 954), also known by his temple name Taizu (太祖), was the founding emperor of imperial China’s short-lived Later Zhou during the “Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” period, reigning from 951 until his death)

(nicknamed “Sparrow Guo” (郭雀兒) for a sparrow-shaped tattoo on his neck, he rose to high position in the “Later Han” as an assistant military commissioner)

(he founded the “Later Zhou” in 951)

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