Liang, known in historiography as the Later Liang (simplified Chinese: 后梁; traditional Chinese: 後梁; pinyin: Hòu Liáng) (1 June 907 – 19 November 923) or the Zhu Liang (Chinese: 朱梁), was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

[citation needed] By 904, he had exerted control over both of the twin Tang dynasty capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang.

The Later Liang maintained a tense relationship with the Shatuo Turks, due to the rivalry between Zhu Quanzong and Li Keyong, a relationship that began back in the time of the Tang dynasty.

This was typically done for the purpose of strengthening the present rulers' ties to the Mandate themselves.

Several justifications were given for this, and successive Five Dynasties regimes, to be conferred the Mandate of Heaven.