Historical inheritance involves not only the demand of feudal dynasties for their orthodox places but also choice and judgment of cultural orientation. In this consideration, the sense of writing the national history and former dynasties reveals that the minority regimes founded by Shatuo, Jurchen, Mongolia and the like selfconsciously connected their histories with the former Dynasties of the Han people. In other words, an interrelated bond was introduced to selfconsciously link all ethnics together, which oversteps a purely political strategic consideration and ascends to a cultural choice. This is just an important element for China’s historical transition from separation to unification and Chinese ethnics’ experience from mutual struggle to national integrity.

national integrity; times of the Five Dynasties; history compilation; cultural orientation