关于五代“山后八军”的几个问题

Some questions about “the Eight Armies in the back of T'ai-hang Mountains” in the Five Dynasties

"山后八军"作为五代"山后"地区的一支重要军事力量,史料记载出入处较多,存有概念混淆、内涵及外延不明等情况。五代"山后八军",实乃唐末幽州刘仁恭首设于山后地区,源自八个具有防御性质的军镇,名称上沿袭幽州东北的"八防御军"而来。五代"山后八军"与宋"山后八州"是两个截然不同的地理概念。

＂The Eight Armies in the back of T＇ai-hang Mountains＂ were some important military forces in the Five Dynasties. There are a lot of discrepancies in different historical sources, which inevitably leads to conceptual confusions and unclear meanings. ＂The Eight Armies in the back of T＇ai-hang Mountains,＂ designed by Liu Jen-Kung who was the supreme executive for Yu-chou in the late Tang Dynasty, derived from eight military regimes which were administrative regions for defense, and were named after ＂the eight defensive regimes＂ in the northeast of Yo-chou. Moreover, the present essay concludes that ＂the Eight Armies in the back of T＇ai-hang Mountains＂ in the Five Dynasties and ＂the Eight Chou in the back of T＇ai-hang Mountains＂ in the Sung Dynasty were different geographical concepts.