Liu Yin (874 ~ 9 1 1) was originally from Shangcai (now Henan) and Yunpengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and then moved to Quanzhou. His father, Liu Qian, was the secretariat of Fengzhou (now southeast of Wuzhou, Guangxi) in the late Tang Dynasty, with tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of warships. In the first year of Ganning (894), Liu Qian died. Soon after, Liu Yin succeeded to the throne and sealed the state secretariat. In the second year of Tianzhu (905), Liu Yin was appointed as our envoy to the navy of Tang Dynasty (Lingnan East Road). In the first year of Kaiping in Hou Liang (907), Zhu Wen named Liu Yin king of Dapeng County; In three years, it was renamed Nanping Wang; Four years later, he was also named king of the South China Sea.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, scholars from Lingnan gathered, some to escape the war, some were descendants of famous officials exiled to Lingnan, and some were local officials who were not allowed to return to the north because of the war. Liu Yin accepted these three kinds of scholars as assistants. He sent his brother Ada (889 ~ 942) to lead troops to pacify the east-west separatist forces in Lingnan and control Lingnan. The west competed with Chu for land and captured Rong and Tan (now western and southern Guangxi and parts of Guangdong). In the first year of drying (9 1 1), Liu Yin died. Liu Yanji, later renamed Lu, Gong and Li. In the third year of Zhenming (9 17), he proclaimed himself emperor in Panyu, with the title of Da Yue, and changed to Han in the following year, known as Nanhan in history. Liu Yan has three titles: Gan Heng, White Dragon and Judas. In 15 (942), Ada died at the age of 54. His son Liu Zan (formerly known as Hongdu, 920 ~ 943) succeeded to the throne, and his country name was Guangtian. The following year, Zan's younger brother Liu Sheng (formerly known as Hongxi, 920 ~ 958) killed Zan and Zili II. In the sixth year of Ganhe (948), Liu Sheng took advantage of the civil strife in Chu to send troops to attack Chu. By nine years ago, he had occupied more than ten states of Chu. In 16 years (958), Liu Sheng died at the age of 39. His son Liu Yong (Ch ǐ ng) (formerly known as Ji Xing, 942 ~ 980) succeeded to the throne, with the year number Dabao.
When Ada was in power, he relied on scholars to manage the government, and he made all scholars serve the country. He also passed the imperial examination and hired more than ten officials from Jinshi and Mingjing every year, thus avoiding the trouble of Wu Zhi being an official. However, Ada and his successors were dissolute and cruel kings who collected jewels and wealth and built great buildings. When Ada built the Zhaoyang Hall, it was decorated with gold as the top and silver as the bottom, and a lot of pearls, crystals and amber were also used. The rulers of the Southern Han Dynasty abused torture in order to collect and punish the people's resistance, and the people were miserable. In July of the year of Guang Tianyuan (942), shortly after Ada's death, Zhang Yuxian, a native of Boluo (now Guangdong), rose up in Zhou Xun (now southwest of Longchuan, Guangdong), calling himself "Eight Kings of Zhongtian" with the title of Yongle. The Rebel Army defeated the Southern Han loyalist for many times. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, it went north from Lingnan to Ganzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi), with Baiyun Cave as its base and more than 100,000 people. The following year, because of the disparity between the enemy and the enemy, the traitor betrayed him and was suppressed by the army of Nantang.
After Herry Liu ascended the throne, eunuchs monopolized power, which made state affairs more corrupt. In the fourth year of Song Kaibao (97 1), Song Bing captured Guangzhou, Liu Ting fell, and Southern Han died.