公元11世纪初，在中华大地的西部崛起了一个剽悍的民族—-党项族，继而建立了一个长达二百年的大夏国，即西夏王朝。本书用演义的形式，生动形象地阐述了西夏的二王十帝，从百年迁徙、五州称王、元昊立国、梁氏专权，到乾顺崇文、仁孝中兴、任得敬分国，直至灭亡的历史。书中不仅塑造了元昊、梁太后、任得敬等众多人物，而且对西夏的政治、军事、经济、文化、宗教、民风、民俗以及以北宋、辽、金、蒙古等周边地区及兄弟民族的历史，也都有生动的描写。(In the early eleventh Century, in the land west of China, a brave nation raises—- Dangxiang People. Then set up a two-hundred-year country, the Western Xia dynasty. This book uses romance form to vividly describe the emperors in Xixia from its start points to the perishing. The book not only created the Yuan Hao, Queen Mother, Ren Jing, and many other characters, and has vivid descriptions about its politic, military and economic and cultural, religious, folkway and folk custom and the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao, Jin, Mongolia and other surrounding areas.)