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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Taxes_and_the_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 Taxes and the census </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Taxes_and_the_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military_and_foreign_policy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military_and_foreign_policy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Military and foreign policy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Military_and_foreign_policy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Military and foreign policy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Military_and_foreign_policy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Protectorates_and_tributaries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Protectorates_and_tributaries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Protectorates and tributaries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Protectorates_and_tributaries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Soldiers_and_conscription" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Soldiers_and_conscription"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Soldiers and conscription </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Soldiers_and_conscription-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Eastern_regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Eastern regions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Western_and_Northern_regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Western_and_Northern_regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Western and Northern regions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Western_and_Northern_regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Economy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Economy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Silk_Road" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Silk_Road"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1 Silk Road </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Silk_Road-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seaports_and_maritime_trade" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seaports_and_maritime_trade"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Seaports and maritime trade </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seaports_and_maritime_trade-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture_and_society" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture_and_society"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Culture and society </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture_and_society-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Culture and society subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Culture_and_society-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Chang'an" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chang'an"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Chang'an </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chang'an-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Literature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion_and_philosophy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_and_philosophy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Religion and philosophy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_and_philosophy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leisure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leisure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Leisure </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Leisure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Status_in_clothing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Status_in_clothing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.5 Status in clothing </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Status_in_clothing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Position_of_women" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Position_of_women"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.6 Position of women </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Position_of_women-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cuisine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cuisine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.7 Cuisine </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cuisine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Science_and_technology" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Science_and_technology"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Science and technology </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Science_and_technology-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Science and technology subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Science_and_technology-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Engineering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Engineering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Engineering </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Engineering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Woodblock_printing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Woodblock_printing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Woodblock printing </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Woodblock_printing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cartography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cartography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Cartography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cartography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Medicine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Medicine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Medicine </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Medicine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alchemy,_gas_cylinders,_and_air_conditioning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alchemy,_gas_cylinders,_and_air_conditioning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 Alchemy, gas cylinders, and air conditioning </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alchemy,_gas_cylinders,_and_air_conditioning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Historiography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Historiography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Historiography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Historiography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 References </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle References subsection </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Citations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Works_cited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_cited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Works cited </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works_cited-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Toggle the table of contents </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">Tang dynasty</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 118 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-118" aria-hidden="true" > 118 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dinastie" title="Tang-dinastie – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Tang-dinastie" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-Dynastie" title="Tang-Dynastie – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Tang-Dynastie" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A8%E1%89%B3%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%8D_%E1%88%A5%E1%88%AD%E1%8B%88_%E1%88%98%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%8D%E1%88%A5%E1%89%B5" title="የታንግ ሥርወ መንግሥት – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="የታንግ ሥርወ መንግሥት" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9" title="سلالة تانغ الحاكمة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سلالة تانغ الحاكمة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinast%C3%ADa_Tang" title="Dinastía Tang – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Dinastía Tang" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinast%C3%ADa_Tang" title="Dinastía Tang – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Dinastía Tang" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_%C3%B1emo%C3%B1anga" title="Tang ñemoñanga – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Tang ñemoñanga" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_s%C3%BClal%C9%99si" title="Tan sülaləsi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Tan sülaləsi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%E2%80%8C%D9%84%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="تان سولا‌له‌سی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="تان سولا‌له‌سی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B6" title="তাং রাজবংশ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="তাং রাজবংশ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B4ng" title="Tông – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Tông" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F%D2%BB%D1%8B" title="Тан династияһы – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Тан династияһы" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Імперыя Тан – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Імперыя Тан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Дынастыя Тан – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Дынастыя Тан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Тан – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Тан" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%90%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BE%92%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8D" title="ཐང་རྒྱལ་རབས། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཐང་རྒྱལ་རབས།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastija_Tang" title="Dinastija Tang – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Dinastija Tang" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierniezh_Tang" title="Tierniezh Tang – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tierniezh Tang" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Тан улас – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Тан улас" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target">Буряад</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D3%97" title="Тан империйӗ – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Тан империйӗ" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98%C3%AD%C5%A1e_Tchang" title="Říše Tchang – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Říše Tchang" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenhinllin_Tang" title="Brenhinllin Tang – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Brenhinllin Tang" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dynastiet" title="Tang-dynastiet – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Tang-dynastiet" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-Dynastie" title="Tang-Dynastie – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Tang-Dynastie" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangi_d%C3%BCnastia" title="Tangi dünastia – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tangi dünastia" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A4%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Δυναστεία Τανγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Δυναστεία Τανγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinast%C3%ADa_Tang" title="Dinastía Tang – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Dinastía Tang" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastio_Tang" title="Dinastio Tang – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Dinastio Tang" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dinastia" title="Tang dinastia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Tang dinastia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF" title="دودمان تانگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دودمان تانگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty" title="Tang Dynasty – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Tang Dynasty" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastie_Tang" title="Dynastie Tang – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Dynastie Tang" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADshliocht_Tang" title="Ríshliocht Tang – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ríshliocht Tang" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinast%C3%ADa_Tang" title="Dinastía Tang – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Dinastía Tang" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90" title="唐 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="唐" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target">贛語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%B2ng-chh%C3%A8u" title="Thòng-chhèu – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Thòng-chhèu" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%B9%EB%82%98%EB%9D%BC" title="당나라 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="당나라" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B9%D5%A1%D5%B6_(%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%A1)" title="Թան (դինաստիա) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Թան (դինաստիա)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B6" title="तांग राजवंश – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="तांग राजवंश" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%27ang" title="T'ang – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="T'ang" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastio_Tang" title="Dinastio Tang – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Dinastio Tang" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_a_Tang" title="Dinastia a Tang – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Dinastia a Tang" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinasti_Tang" title="Dinasti Tang – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Dinasti Tang" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangveldi%C3%B0" title="Tangveldið – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Tangveldið" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%AA_%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92" title="שושלת טאנג – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שושלת טאנג" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangsa_Tang" title="Wangsa Tang – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Wangsa Tang" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C5%8B_Kewiya%C9%A3_K%C9%A9%C9%96%C9%9Bza%C9%A3" title="Taŋ Kewiyaɣ Kɩɖɛzaɣ – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Taŋ Kewiyaɣ Kɩɖɛzaɣ" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%B6" title="ಟ್ಯಾಂಗ್ ರಾಜವಂಶ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಟ್ಯಾಂಗ್ ರಾಜವಂಶ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ტანის დინასტია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ტანის დინასტია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D3%99%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%96" title="Тан әулеті – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Тан әулеті" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasaba_ya_Tang" title="Nasaba ya Tang – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Nasaba ya Tang" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanedana_Tang" title="Xanedana Tang – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Xanedana Tang" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%B0%E0%BA%A7%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%87%E0%BA%96%E0%BA%B1%E0%BA%87" title="ລາຊະວົງຖັງ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ລາຊະວົງຖັງ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familia_Tam" title="Familia Tam – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Familia Tam" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanu_dinastija" title="Tanu dinastija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Tanu dinastija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang%C5%B3_dinastija" title="Tangų dinastija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Tangų dinastija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dinasztia" title="Tang-dinasztia – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Tang-dinasztia" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Династија Танг – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Династија Танг" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%82" title="താങ് രാജവംശം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="താങ് രാജവംശം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%87" title="تانگ سلسله – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="تانگ سلسله" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinasti_Tang" title="Dinasti Tang – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Dinasti Tang" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinasti_Tang" title="Dinasti Tang – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Dinasti Tang" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B2ng-di%C3%A8u" title="Dòng-dièu – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Dòng-dièu" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%81" title="Тан улс – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Тан улс" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%90%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%86%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA" title="တန်မင်းဆက် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="တန်မင်းဆက်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dynastie" title="Tang-dynastie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Tang-dynastie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B6" title="ताङ्ग राजवंश – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="ताङ्ग राजवंश" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90" title="唐 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="唐" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_(%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%B8%D0%B9)" title="Тан (некъий) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Тан (некъий)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-D%C3%BCnastii" title="Tang-Dünastii – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Tang-Dünastii" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dynastiet" title="Tang-dynastiet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Tang-dynastiet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dynastiet" title="Tang-dynastiet – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Tang-dynastiet" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan" title="Tan – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Tan" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A4%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%97_%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%B5%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC" title="ਤੰਗ ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਤੰਗ ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF" title="تانگ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="تانگ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BC%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8D" title="ټانگ كورنۍ – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ټانگ كورنۍ" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%87%E1%9E%9C%E1%9E%84%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9F%E1%9E%90%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%84" title="រាជវង្សថាង – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="រាជវង្សថាង" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinast%C3%ACa_Tang" title="Dinastìa Tang – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Dinastìa Tang" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-Dynastie" title="Tang-Dynastie – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Tang-Dynastie" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastia_Tang" title="Dynastia Tang – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dynastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%B1_s%C3%BCl%C3%A2lesi" title="Tañ sülâlesi – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Tañ sülâlesi" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qırımtatarca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Империя Тан – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Империя Тан" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Тан династия – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Тан династия" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Tang" title="Dinastia Tang – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Dinastia Tang" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%82_%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%A2%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%82%E0%B7%81%E0%B6%BA" title="තාං රාජවංශය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="තාං රාජවංශය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Tang dynasty" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchang_(dynastia)" title="Tchang (dynastia) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Tchang (dynastia)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastija_Tang" title="Dinastija Tang – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Dinastija Tang" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%86%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%95%D8%AA%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF" title="ئیمپراتۆریەتیی تانگ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئیمپراتۆریەتیی تانگ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Династија Танг – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Династија Танг" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastija_Tang" title="Dinastija Tang – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Dinastija Tang" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang-dynastia" title="Tang-dynastia – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Tang-dynastia" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangdynastin" title="Tangdynastin – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Tangdynastin" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastiyang_Tang" title="Dinastiyang Tang – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Dinastiyang Tang" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81" title="தாங் அரசமரபு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தாங் அரசமரபு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D2%A3_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%81%D0%B5" title="Таң династиясе – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Таң династиясе" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%A8%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%87" title="ราชวงศ์ถัง – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ราชวงศ์ถัง" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Имперотурии Тонг – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Имперотурии Тонг" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Hanedan%C4%B1" title="Tang Hanedanı – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Tang Hanedanı" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_(dinasti%C3%BDa)" title="Tan (dinastiýa) – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Tan (dinastiýa)" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Династія Тан – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Династія Тан" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%81" title="تانگ شاہی سلسلہ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="تانگ شاہی سلسلہ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%AD_%D8%B3%DB%87%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89%D8%B3%D9%89" title="تاڭ سۇلالىسى – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="تاڭ سۇلالىسى" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target">ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangzciuz" title="Dangzciuz – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Dangzciuz" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vahcuengh</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nh%C3%A0_%C4%90%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Dng" title="Nhà Đường – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Nhà Đường" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90" title="唐 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="唐" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastiya_Tang" title="Dinastiya Tang – Waray" lang="war" 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class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Abdication in favour of <a href="/wiki/Later_Liang_(Five_Dynasties)" title="Later Liang (Five Dynasties)">Later Liang</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">June 1, 907</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area</th></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">715<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-OxfordArea-6">[6]</a></th><td class="infobox-data">5,400,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population</th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div 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href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/tɑːŋ/</a>,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[tʰǎŋ]</a>; <a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: 唐朝<a href="#cite_note-9">[a]</a>), or the Tang Empire, was an <a href="/wiki/Dynasties_of_China" title="Dynasties of China">imperial dynasty of China</a> that ruled from 618 to 907, with an <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zhou" title="Wu Zhou">interregnum</a> between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a> and followed by the <a href="/wiki/Five_Dynasties_and_Ten_Kingdoms_period" title="Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period">Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period</a>. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilisation, and a <a href="/wiki/Golden_age_(metaphor)" title="Golden age (metaphor)">golden age</a> of cosmopolitan culture.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis20121-10">[9]</a> Tang territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivalled that of the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a>. The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Li" title="House of Li">Li family</a> founded the dynasty after taking advantage of a period of Sui decline and precipitating their final collapse, in turn inaugurating a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty was formally interrupted during 690–705 when Empress <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a> seized the throne, proclaiming the <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zhou" title="Wu Zhou">Wu Zhou</a> dynasty and becoming the only legitimate Chinese <a href="/wiki/Empress_regnant" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress regnant">empress regnant</a>. The <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion" title="An Lushan rebellion">An Lushan rebellion</a> (755–763) led to devastation and the decline of central authority during the latter half of the dynasty. Like the previous <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a>, the Tang maintained a civil-service system by recruiting <a href="/wiki/Scholar-official" title="Scholar-official">scholar-officials</a> through <a href="/wiki/Imperial_examination" title="Imperial examination">standardised examinations</a> and recommendations to office. The rise of regional military governors known as <a href="/wiki/Jiedushi" title="Jiedushi">jiedushi</a> during the 9th century undermined this civil order. The dynasty and central government went into decline by the latter half of the 9th century; agrarian rebellions resulted in mass population loss and displacement, widespread poverty, and further government dysfunction that ultimately ended the dynasty in 907. The Tang capital at <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Xi%27an" title="Xi'an">Xi'an</a>) was the world's most populous city for much of the dynasty's existence. Two censuses of the 7th and 8th centuries estimated the empire's population at about 50 million people,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999111,_141-12">[11]</a> which grew to an estimated 80 million by the dynasty's end.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDu199837-13">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman2006106-14">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[b]</a> From its numerous subjects, the dynasty raised professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers for <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_in_Inner_Asia" title="Tang dynasty in Inner Asia">control</a> of <a href="/wiki/Inner_Asia" title="Inner Asia">Inner Asia</a> and the lucrative trade-routes along the <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a>. <a href="/wiki/List_of_tributaries_of_Imperial_China" class="mw-redirect" title="List of tributaries of Imperial China">Far-flung kingdoms and states paid tribute</a> to the Tang court, while the Tang also indirectly controlled several regions through a <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_(imperial_China)" title="Protectorate (imperial China)">protectorate</a> system. In addition to its political <a href="/wiki/Hegemony" title="Hegemony">hegemony</a>, the Tang exerted a powerful cultural influence over neighbouring <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asian</a> nations such as <a href="/wiki/Classical_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Japan">Japan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_of_Korea" title="Three Kingdoms of Korea">Korea</a>. <a href="/wiki/Chinese_culture" title="Chinese culture">Chinese culture</a> flourished and further matured during the Tang era. It is traditionally considered the greatest age for <a href="/wiki/Chinese_poetry" title="Chinese poetry">Chinese poetry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYu199873–87-16">[14]</a> Two of China's most famous poets, <a href="/wiki/Li_Bai" title="Li Bai">Li Bai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Du_Fu" title="Du Fu">Du Fu</a>, belonged to this age, contributing with poets such as <a href="/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)">Wang Wei</a> to the monumental <a href="/wiki/Three_Hundred_Tang_Poems" title="Three Hundred Tang Poems">Three Hundred Tang Poems</a>. Many famous painters such as <a href="/wiki/Han_Gan" title="Han Gan">Han Gan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Xuan" title="Zhang Xuan">Zhang Xuan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Fang_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Zhou Fang (Tang dynasty)">Zhou Fang</a> were active, while Chinese court music flourished with instruments such as the popular <a href="/wiki/Pipa" title="Pipa">pipa</a>. Tang scholars compiled a rich variety of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_historiography" title="Chinese historiography">historical literature</a>, as well as encyclopaedias and geographical works. Notable innovations included the development of <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">woodblock printing</a>. <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> became a major influence in Chinese culture, with <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Buddhism" title="Chinese Buddhism">native Chinese sects</a> gaining prominence. However, in the 840s, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wuzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Wuzong of Tang">Emperor Wuzong</a> enacted policies to <a href="/wiki/Great_Anti-Buddhist_Persecution" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution">suppress Buddhism</a>, which subsequently declined in influence. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Timeline of the Tang dynasty">Timeline of the Tang dynasty</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Establishment">Establishment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Establishment">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Transition_from_Sui_to_Tang" title="Transition from Sui to Tang">Transition from Sui to Tang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Taizong of Tang">Emperor Taizong of Tang</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TangGaozu.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/TangGaozu.jpg/110px-TangGaozu.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/TangGaozu.jpg/165px-TangGaozu.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/TangGaozu.jpg/220px-TangGaozu.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9982" data-file-height="20541" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozu of Tang">Emperor Gaozu of Tang</a> (566–635) dating to the <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a> (1368–1644)</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Li" title="House of Li">House of Li</a> had ethnic <a href="/wiki/Han_Chinese" title="Han Chinese">Han</a> origins, and it belonged to the northwest military aristocracy prevalent during the <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200690–91-17">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200440–41-18">[16]</a> According to official Tang records, they were <a href="/wiki/Patrilineality" title="Patrilineality">paternally descended</a> from <a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a>, the traditional founder of <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> (whose personal name was Li Dan or Li Er), the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> general <a href="/wiki/Li_Guang" title="Li Guang">Li Guang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Li_Gao" title="Li Gao">Li Gao</a>, the founder of the Han-ruled <a href="/wiki/Western_Liang_(Sixteen_Kingdoms)" title="Western Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)">Western Liang</a> kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELatourette1934191-19">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDrompp2004126-20">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDrompp2005376-21">[19]</a> This family was known as the <a href="/wiki/Longxi_County" title="Longxi County">Longxi</a> Li lineage, which also included the prominent Tang poet <a href="/wiki/Li_Bai" title="Li Bai">Li Bai</a>. The Tang emperors were partially of <a href="/wiki/Xianbei" title="Xianbei">Xianbei</a> ancestry, as <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozu of Tang">Emperor Gaozu of Tang</a>'s mother <a href="/wiki/Dugu_sisters" title="Dugu sisters">Duchess Dugu</a> was part-Xianbei.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkaff2012125-22">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETogan2011177-23">[21]</a> Apart from the traditional historiography, some modern historians have suggested the Tang imperial family might have modified its genealogy to conceal their Xianbei heritage.<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a> Emperor Gaozu (born Li Yuan) was the founder of the Tang. He was previously Duke of Tang and governor of <a href="/wiki/Taiyuan" title="Taiyuan">Taiyuan</a>, the capital of modern <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a>, during the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a> (581–618).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200690–91-17">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200078,_93-26">[24]</a> Li had prestige and military experience, and was a first cousin of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Yang_of_Sui" title="Emperor Yang of Sui">Emperor Yang of Sui</a> (their mothers were both one of the <a href="/wiki/Dugu_sisters" title="Dugu sisters">Dugu sisters</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> Li Yuan rose in rebellion in 617, along with his son and his equally militant daughter <a href="/wiki/Princess_Pingyang" title="Princess Pingyang">Princess Pingyang</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 623), who raised and commanded her own troops. In winter 617, Li Yuan occupied <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a>, relegated Emperor Yang to the position of <a href="/wiki/Taishang_Huang" title="Taishang Huang">Taishang Huang</a> ('retired emperor'), and acted as <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> to the puppet child-emperor <a href="/wiki/Yang_You" title="Yang You">Yang You</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200440-27">[25]</a> On the news of Emperor Yang's murder by General <a href="/wiki/Yuwen_Huaji" title="Yuwen Huaji">Yuwen Huaji</a> on June 18, 618, Li Yuan declared himself emperor of the newly founded Tang dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200440-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200078-28">[26]</a> Emperor Gaozu ruled until 626, when he was forcefully deposed by his son <a href="/wiki/Li_Shimin" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Shimin">Li Shimin</a>, the Prince of Qin. Li Shimin had commanded troops since the age of 18, had prowess with bow and arrow, sword and <a href="/wiki/Lance" title="Lance">lance</a> and was known for his effective cavalry charges.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200080-29">[27]</a> Fighting a numerically superior army, he defeated <a href="/wiki/Dou_Jiande" title="Dou Jiande">Dou Jiande</a> (573–621) at <a href="/wiki/Luoyang" title="Luoyang">Luoyang</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hulao" title="Battle of Hulao">Battle of Hulao</a> on May 28, 621.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200440–42-30">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200078,_82,_85–86,_95-31">[29]</a> Due to fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushed and killed two of his brothers, <a href="/wiki/Li_Yuanji" title="Li Yuanji">Li Yuanji</a> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 603) and crown prince <a href="/wiki/Li_Jiancheng" title="Li Jiancheng">Li Jiancheng</a> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 589), in the <a href="/wiki/Xuanwu_Gate_Incident" title="Xuanwu Gate Incident">Xuanwu Gate Incident</a> on July 2, 626.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200442-32">[30]</a> Shortly thereafter, his father abdicated in his favour, and Li Shimin ascended the throne. He is conventionally known by his <a href="/wiki/Temple_name" title="Temple name">temple name</a> Taizong.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> Although killing two brothers and deposing his father contradicted the <a href="/wiki/Confucian" class="mw-redirect" title="Confucian">Confucian</a> value of <a href="/wiki/Filial_piety" title="Filial piety">filial piety</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200442-32">[30]</a> Taizong showed himself to be a capable leader who listened to the advice of the wisest members of his council.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> In 628, Emperor Taizong held a Buddhist memorial service for the casualties of war; in 629, he had Buddhist monasteries erected at the sites of major battles so that monks could pray for the fallen on both sides of the fight.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200693-33">[31]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_the_Eastern_Turks" title="Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks">Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Turkic_Khaganate" title="Eastern Turkic Khaganate">Eastern Turkic Khaganate</a> was destroyed after the capture of its ruler, <a href="/wiki/Illig_Qaghan" title="Illig Qaghan">Illig Qaghan</a> by the famed Tang military officer <a href="/wiki/Li_Jing_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Li Jing (Tang dynasty)">Li Jing</a> (571–649), who later became a <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">Chancellor of the Tang dynasty</a>. With this victory, the Turks accepted Taizong as their <a href="/wiki/Khagan" title="Khagan">khagan</a>, a title rendered as <a href="/wiki/Tian_Kehan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tian Kehan">Tian Kehan</a> in addition to his rule as <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">emperor of China</a> under the traditional title "<a href="/wiki/Son_of_Heaven" title="Son of Heaven">Son of Heaven</a>".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200442–43-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000124-35">[33]</a> Taizong was succeeded by his son Li Zhi (as <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozong of Tang">Emperor Gaozong</a>) in 649. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:642px;max-width:642px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:262px;max-width:262px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:221px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:China,_742.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/China%2C_742.svg/260px-China%2C_742.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/China%2C_742.svg/390px-China%2C_742.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/China%2C_742.svg/520px-China%2C_742.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="850" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Tang circuits (道; dào) in 742 according to <a href="/wiki/The_Cambridge_History_of_China" title="The Cambridge History of China">The Cambridge History of China</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:193px;max-width:193px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:221px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons,_648-651_CE,_Afrasiyab_murals,_Samarkand.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg/250px-Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg" decoding="async" width="191" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg/330px-Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg/500px-Tang_Dynasty_emissaries_at_the_court_of_Varkhuman_in_Samarkand_carrying_silk_and_a_string_of_silkworm_cocoons%2C_648-651_CE%2C_Afrasiyab_murals%2C_Samarkand.jpg 2x" data-file-width="773" data-file-height="896" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Tang emissaries to the <a href="/wiki/Sogdia" title="Sogdia">Sogdian</a> king <a href="/wiki/Varkhuman" title="Varkhuman">Varkhuman</a> in <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a> (648–651) – <a href="/wiki/Afrasiab_murals" title="Afrasiab murals">Afrasiab murals</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:181px;max-width:181px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:221px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Huteng_dancer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Huteng_dancer.jpg/250px-Huteng_dancer.jpg" decoding="async" width="179" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Huteng_dancer.jpg/330px-Huteng_dancer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Huteng_dancer.jpg/500px-Huteng_dancer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1391" data-file-height="1721" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">7th-century Sogdian <a href="/wiki/Huteng" title="Huteng">Huteng</a> dancer – Xiuding temple pagoda, <a href="/wiki/Anyang" title="Anyang">Anyang</a>, Henan</div></div></div></div></div> The Tang engaged in <a href="/wiki/Tang_campaigns_against_the_Western_Turks" title="Tang campaigns against the Western Turks">military campaigns against the Western Turks</a>, exploiting the rivalry between <a href="/wiki/Western_Turks" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Turks">Western</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Turkic_Khaganate" title="Eastern Turkic Khaganate">Eastern Turks</a> in order to weaken both. Under <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Taizong of Tang">Emperor Taizong</a>, campaigns were dispatched in the Western Regions against <a href="/wiki/Gaochang" title="Gaochang">Gaochang</a> in 640, <a href="/wiki/Karasahr" title="Karasahr">Karasahr</a> in 644 and 648, and <a href="/wiki/Kucha" title="Kucha">Kucha</a> in 648. The wars against the Western Turks continued under <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozong of Tang">Emperor Gaozong</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Western_Turkic_Khaganate" title="Western Turkic Khaganate">Western Turkic Khaganate</a> was finally annexed after General <a href="/wiki/Su_Dingfang" title="Su Dingfang">Su Dingfang</a>'s defeat of Khagan <a href="/wiki/Ashina_Helu" title="Ashina Helu">Ashina Helu</a> in 657. Around this time, the Tang court enjoyed visits by numerous dignitaries from foreign lands. These were depicted in the <a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_Periodical_Offering" title="Portraits of Periodical Offering">Portraits of Periodical Offering</a>, probably painted by <a href="/wiki/Yan_Liben" title="Yan Liben">Yan Liben</a> (601–673).<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[c]</a> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1010px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize thumbimage" style="overflow:auto"><a href="/wiki/File:%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_(annotations).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Foreign ambassadors visiting the Tang court – the Portraits of Periodical Offering by Yan Liben (601–673)"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg/1000px-%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="1000" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg/1500px-%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg/2000px-%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_%28annotations%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="11912" data-file-height="1558" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:%E7%8E%8B%E4%BC%9A%E5%9B%BE_%E5%94%90%E9%98%8E%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%AC_(annotations).jpg" title="File:王会图唐阎立本 (annotations).jpg"> </a></div>Foreign ambassadors visiting the Tang court – the <a href="/wiki/Portraits_of_Periodical_Offering" title="Portraits of Periodical Offering">Portraits of Periodical Offering</a> by Yan Liben (601–673)</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wu_Zetian's_usurpation">Wu Zetian's usurpation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Wu Zetian's usurpation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zhou" title="Wu Zhou">Wu Zhou</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg/180px-%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg/270px-%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg/360px-%E6%AD%A6%E6%9B%8C%E5%83%8F.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a>, the sole recognised empress regnant in Chinese history</figcaption></figure> Having entered Emperor Gaozong's court as a lowly consort, <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a> ultimately acceded to the highest position of power in 690, establishing the short-lived Wu Zhou. Emperor Gaozong suffered a stroke in 655, and Wu began to make many of his court decisions for him, discussing affairs of state with his councillors, who took orders from her while she sat behind a screen.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200697–98-38">[35]</a> When Empress Wu's eldest son, the crown prince, began to assert his authority and advocate policies opposed by Empress Wu, he suddenly died in 675. Many suspected he was poisoned by Empress Wu. Although the next heir apparent kept a lower profile, Wu accused him of plotting a rebellion in 680; he was banished and later obliged to commit suicide.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200698-39">[36]</a> In 683, Emperor Gaozong died and was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Zhongzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Zhongzong of Tang">Emperor Zhongzong</a>, his eldest surviving son by Wu. Zhongzong tried to appoint his wife's father as chancellor: after only six weeks on the throne, he was deposed by Empress Wu in favour of his younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Ruizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Ruizong of Tang">Emperor Ruizong</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200698-39">[36]</a> This provoked a group of Tang princes to rebel in 684. Wu's armies suppressed them within two months.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200698-39">[36]</a> She proclaimed the Tianshou <a href="/wiki/Chinese_era_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese era names">era</a> of Wu Zhou on October 16, 690,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForte1988234-40">[37]</a> and three days later demoted Emperor Ruizong to <a href="/wiki/Crown_prince_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crown prince (China)">crown prince</a>. He was also forced to give up his father's surname Li in favour of the Empress Wu.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarlowe200864-41">[38]</a> She then ruled as China's only <a href="/wiki/Empress_regnant" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress regnant">empress regnant</a> in history. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:408px;max-width:408px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty,_Henan_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg/200px-20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg/300px-20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg/400px-20210220_A_model_of_Luoyang_in_Sui_and_Tang_dynasty%2C_Henan_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" /></a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-%E6%B4%9B%E9%98%B3%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E9%81%97%E5%9D%80%E4%B8%AD%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%8D%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="3813" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Model of Luoyang imperial palace during Wu Zetian's reign. Many major construction projects were commissioned during Wu Zetian's time, such as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bright_Hall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bright Hall (page does not exist)">Bright Hall</a> [<a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E5%A0%82" class="extiw" title="zh:明堂">zh</a>] of Luoyang (right) commissioned by Wu Zetian (original 93 m (305 ft) tall).<a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a></div></div></div></div> A palace coup on February 20, 705, forced Empress Wu to yield her position on February 22. The next day, her son Zhongzong was restored to power; the Tang was formally restored on March 3. She died soon after.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200445-43">[40]</a> To legitimise her rule, she circulated a document known as the Great Cloud Sutra, which predicted that a reincarnation of the <a href="/wiki/Maitreya" title="Maitreya">Maitreya</a> Buddha would be a female monarch who would dispel illness, worry, and disaster from the world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999116-44">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen200397–98-45">[42]</a> She even introduced numerous revised <a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters_of_Empress_Wu" title="Chinese characters of Empress Wu">written characters</a> for the language, though they reverted to the original forms after her death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield200474-46">[43]</a> Arguably the most important part of her legacy was diminishing the hegemony of the Northwestern aristocracy, allowing people from other clans and regions of China to become more represented in Chinese politics and government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200682-47">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer19858-48">[45]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emperor_Xuanzong's_reign">Emperor Xuanzong's reign</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Emperor Xuanzong's reign">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:312px;max-width:312px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:132px;max-width:132px"><div class="thumbimage" style="border:none;;height:173px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="西安大雁塔" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg/130px-%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg/195px-%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg/260px-%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE%89%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%81%E5%A1%94.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="960" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Giant_Wild_Goose_Pagoda" title="Giant Wild Goose Pagoda">Giant Wild Goose Pagoda</a> in Chang'an, built in 652 and repaired by Wu Zetian in 704</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:176px;max-width:176px"><div class="thumbimage" style="border:none;;height:173px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Xi'anwildgoosepagoda2" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG/250px-Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG" decoding="async" width="174" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG/330px-Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG/500px-Xi%27anwildgoosepagoda2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="544" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Small_Wild_Goose_Pagoda" title="Small Wild Goose Pagoda">Small Wild Goose Pagoda</a>, built by 709, was adjacent to the Dajianfu Temple in Chang'an, where Buddhist monks gathered to translate <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> texts into Chinese<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKiang199912-49">[46]</a></div></div></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong of Tang</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunhuang217.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Dunhuang217.jpg/220px-Dunhuang217.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Dunhuang217.jpg/330px-Dunhuang217.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Dunhuang217.jpg/440px-Dunhuang217.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2298" /></a><figcaption>Mural depicting Tang architecture constructed in 707–710 – <a href="/wiki/Mogao_Grotto" class="mw-redirect" title="Mogao Grotto">Mogao Grotto</a> Cave 217</figcaption></figure> There were many prominent women at court during and after Wu's reign, including <a href="/wiki/Shangguan_Wan%27er" title="Shangguan Wan'er">Shangguan Wan'er</a> (664–710), a poet, writer, and trusted official in charge of Wu's private office.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200446-50">[47]</a> In 706, the wife of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, <a href="/wiki/Empress_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)">Empress Wei</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 710), persuaded her husband to staff government offices with his sister and her daughters, and in 709 requested that he grant women the right to bequeath hereditary privileges to their sons (which before was a male right only).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20026-51">[48]</a> Empress Wei eventually poisoned Zhongzong, whereupon she placed his fifteen-year-old son upon the throne in 710. Two weeks later, <a href="/wiki/Li_Longji" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Longji">Li Longji</a> (the later Emperor Xuanzong) entered the palace with a few followers and slew Empress Wei and her faction. He then installed his father <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Ruizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Ruizong of Tang">Emperor Ruizong</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 710–712) on the throne.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200699-52">[49]</a> Just as Emperor Zhongzong was dominated by Empress Wei, so too was Ruizong dominated by <a href="/wiki/Princess_Taiping" title="Princess Taiping">Princess Taiping</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200447-53">[50]</a> This ended when Princess Taiping's coup failed in 712, and Emperor Ruizong abdicated to <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200699-52">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20026-51">[48]</a> The Tang reached its height during Emperor Xuanzong's 44-year reign, which has been characterized as a golden age of economic prosperity and pleasant lifestyles within the imperial court.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20027-54">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer19858-48">[45]</a> Xuanzong was seen as a progressive and benevolent ruler, having abolished the death penalty in 747. Previously, all executions had to be approved by the emperor; in 730, there were only 24 executions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200247-55">[52]</a> Xuanzong bowed to the consensus of his ministers on policy decisions and made efforts to staff government ministries fairly with different political factions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200447-53">[50]</a> His staunch Confucian chancellor <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Jiuling" title="Zhang Jiuling">Zhang Jiuling</a> (673–740) worked to reduce <a href="/wiki/Deflation" title="Deflation">deflation</a> and increase the money supply by upholding the use of private coinage, while his aristocratic and <a href="/wiki/Technocratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Technocratic">technocratic</a> successor <a href="/wiki/Li_Linfu" title="Li Linfu">Li Linfu</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 753) favoured government monopoly over the issuance of coinage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200489-56">[53]</a> After 737, most of Xuanzong's confidence rested in Li Linfu, his long-standing chancellor, who championed a more aggressive foreign policy employing non-Chinese generals. This policy ultimately created the conditions for a massive rebellion against Xuanzong.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200447–48-57">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="An_Lushan_rebellion_and_catastrophe">An Lushan rebellion and catastrophe</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: An Lushan rebellion and catastrophe">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion" title="An Lushan rebellion">An Lushan rebellion</a></div> Previously at the height of their power, the <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion" title="An Lushan rebellion">An Lushan rebellion</a> (755–763) ultimately destroyed the prosperity of the Tang. <a href="/wiki/An_Lushan" title="An Lushan">An Lushan</a> was a half-<a href="/wiki/Sogdiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdiana">Sogdian</a>, half-<a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a> Tang commander since 744, who had experience fighting the <a href="/wiki/Khitans" class="mw-redirect" title="Khitans">Khitans</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a> with a victory in 744, yet most of his campaigns against the Khitans were unsuccessful.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXu1993455–467-58">[55]</a> He was given great responsibility in <a href="/wiki/Hebei" title="Hebei">Hebei</a>, which allowed him to rebel with an army of more than 100,000 troops. After capturing Luoyang, he named himself emperor of a new, but short-lived, <a href="/wiki/Yan_(Anshi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yan (Anshi)">Yan state</a>. Despite early victories scored by the Tang general <a href="/wiki/Guo_Ziyi" title="Guo Ziyi">Guo Ziyi</a> (697–781), the newly recruited troops of the army at the capital were no match for An Lushan's frontier veterans; the court fled Chang'an. While the heir apparent raised troops in <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a> and Xuanzong fled to <a href="/wiki/Sichuan" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a>, they called upon the help of the <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_Khaganate" title="Uyghur Khaganate">Uyghur Khaganate</a> in 756. The <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Uyghur people">Uyghur</a> khan <a href="/wiki/Bayanchur_Khan" title="Bayanchur Khan">Moyanchur</a> was greatly excited at this prospect, and married his own daughter to the Chinese diplomatic envoy once he arrived, receiving in turn a Chinese princess as his bride. <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Uyghur_people" title="History of the Uyghur people">The Uyghurs</a> helped recapture the Tang capital from the rebels, but they refused to leave until the Tang paid them an enormous sum of tribute in silk. Even <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_caliphate" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid caliphate">Abbasid Arabs</a> assisted the Tang in putting down the rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006100-59">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005184–185-60">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer19859-61">[58]</a> A massacre of foreign Arab and Persian Muslim merchants by Tian Shengong happened during the An Lushan rebellion in the 760 <a href="/wiki/Yangzhou_massacre_(760)" title="Yangzhou massacre (760)">Yangzhou massacre</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWan201711-62">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQi2010221–227-63">[60]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibetans</a> took hold of the opportunity and raided many areas under Chinese control, and even after the <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Empire" title="Tibetan Empire">Tibetan Empire</a> had fallen apart in 842, followed soon after by the Uyghur <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Qocho" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Qocho">Kingdom of Qocho</a>, the Tang were in no position to <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_West" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the West">reconquer Central Asia</a> after 763.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006100-59">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen200334-64">[61]</a> So significant was this loss that half a century later jinshi examination candidates were required to write an essay on the causes of the Tang's decline.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGascoigneGascoigne200397-65">[62]</a> Although An Lushan was killed by one of his eunuchs in 757, this time of troubles and widespread insurrection continued until rebel <a href="/wiki/Shi_Siming" title="Shi Siming">Shi Siming</a> was killed by his own son in 763.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005185-66">[63]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG/220px-Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG/330px-Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG/440px-Leshan_Buddha_Statue_View.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Construction of the <a href="/wiki/Leshan_Giant_Buddha" title="Leshan Giant Buddha">Leshan Giant Buddha</a> began in 713 and was completed in 803. The statue is 71 m (233 ft) high.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG/220px-Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG/330px-Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG/440px-Nanchan_Temple_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Nanchan_Temple_(Wutai)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanchan Temple (Wutai)">Nanchan Temple</a> built during the late 8th century</figcaption></figure> After 710, regional military governors called <a href="/wiki/Jiedushi" title="Jiedushi">jiedushi</a> gradually came to challenge the power of the central government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang200391-67">[64]</a> After the An Lushan rebellion, the autonomous power and authority accumulated by <a href="/wiki/Three_Fanzhen_of_Hebei" title="Three Fanzhen of Hebei">the jiedushi in Hebei</a> went beyond the central government's control. After a series of rebellions between 781 and 784 in present-day Hebei, <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shandong" title="Shandong">Shandong</a>, and Hubei, the government had to officially acknowledge the jiedushi's hereditary rule without accreditation. The Tang government relied on these governors and their armies for protection and to suppress local revolts. In return, the central government would acknowledge the rights of these governors to maintain their army, collect taxes and even to pass on their title to heirs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200843–44-68">[65]</a> As time passed, these military governors slowly phased out the prominence of civil officials drafted by exams, and became more autonomous from central authority. The rule of these powerful military governors lasted until 960, when a new civil order under the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> was established. The abandonment of the equal-field system also meant that people could buy and sell land freely; many poor fell into debt because of this and were forced to sell their land to the wealthy, which led to the exponential growth of large estates.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006100-59">[56]</a> With the breakdown of the land allocation system after 755, the central Chinese state barely interfered in agricultural management and acted merely as tax collector for roughly a millennium, save a few instances such as the Song's failed land nationalisation during the 13th-century war with the <a href="/wiki/Mongols" title="Mongols">Mongols</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200490–91-69">[66]</a> With the central government collapsing in authority over the various regions of the empire, it was recorded in 845 that bandits and river pirates in parties of 100 or more began plundering settlements along the Yangtze River with little resistance. In 858, massive floods along the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canal_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Canal of China">Grand Canal</a> inundated vast tracts of land and terrain of the <a href="/wiki/North_China_Plain" title="North China Plain">North China Plain</a>, which drowned tens of thousands of people in the process. The Chinese belief in the <a href="/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven" title="Mandate of Heaven">Mandate of Heaven</a> granted to the ailing Tang was also challenged when natural disasters led many to believe that the Tang had lost their right to rule. In 873, a disastrous harvest shook the foundations of the empire; in some areas only half of all agricultural produce was gathered, and tens of thousands faced famine and starvation. In the earlier period of the Tang, the central government was able to meet crises in the harvest—from 714 to 719, records show that the Tang government responded effectively to natural disasters by extending the price-regulation <a href="/wiki/Granary" title="Granary">granary</a> system throughout the country. The central government was able then to build a large surplus stock of foods to ward off the rising danger of famine and increased agricultural productivity through <a href="/wiki/Land_reclamation" title="Land reclamation">land reclamation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20027-54">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowman2000105-70">[67]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rebuilding_and_recovery">Rebuilding and recovery</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Rebuilding and recovery">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Xumipagodazhengding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Xumipagodazhengding.jpg/250px-Xumipagodazhengding.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Xumipagodazhengding.jpg/330px-Xumipagodazhengding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Xumipagodazhengding.jpg/500px-Xumipagodazhengding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Xumi_Pagoda" title="Xumi Pagoda">Xumi Pagoda</a>, built in 636</figcaption></figure> Although these natural calamities and rebellions stained the reputation and hampered the effectiveness of the central government, the early 9th century is nonetheless viewed as a period of recovery for the Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200215–17-71">[68]</a> The government's withdrawal from its role in managing the economy had the unintended effect of stimulating trade, as more markets with fewer bureaucratic restrictions were opened up.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006101-72">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200685-73">[70]</a> By 780, the old grain tax and labour service of the 7th century were replaced by a semi-annual tax paid in cash, signifying the shift to a money economy boosted by the merchant class.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer19859-61">[58]</a> Cities in the southern <a href="/wiki/Jiangnan" title="Jiangnan">Jiangnan</a> region such as <a href="/wiki/Yangzhou" title="Yangzhou">Yangzhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suzhou" title="Suzhou">Suzhou</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hangzhou" title="Hangzhou">Hangzhou</a> prospered the most economically during the late Tang period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006101-72">[69]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Salt_in_Chinese_history" title="Salt in Chinese history">government monopoly on salt production</a>, weakened after the An Lushan rebellion, was placed under the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Commission" title="Salt Commission">Salt Commission</a>, which became one of the most powerful state agencies, run by capable ministers chosen as specialists. The commission began the practice of selling merchants the rights to buy monopoly salt, which they transported and sold in local markets. In 799, salt accounted for over half of the government's revenues.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006100-59">[56]</a> S. A. M. Adshead writes that this salt tax represents "the first time that an indirect tax, rather than tribute, levies on land or people, or profit from state enterprises such as mines, had been the primary resource of a major state".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200450-74">[71]</a> Even after the power of the central government was in decline after the mid-8th century, it was still able to function and give out imperial orders on a massive scale. The <a href="/wiki/Old_Book_of_Tang" title="Old Book of Tang">Old Book of Tang</a> (945) recorded that a government decree issued in 828 standardised the use of square-pallet <a href="/wiki/Chain_pump" title="Chain pump">chain pumps</a> for irrigation throughout the country.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b347-75">[72]</a> The last ambitious ruler of the Tang was <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xianzong" class="mw-redirect" title="Emperor Xianzong">Emperor Xianzong</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 805–820), whose reign was aided by the fiscal reforms of the 780s, including a government monopoly on the salt industry. He also had an effective and well-trained imperial army stationed at the capital led by his court eunuchs; this was the Army of Divine Strategy, numbering 240,000 in strength as recorded in 798. Between 806 and 819, Emperor Xianzong conducted seven major military campaigns to quell the rebellious provinces that had claimed autonomy from central authority, managing to subdue all but two of them. Under his reign, there was a brief end to the hereditary jiedushi, as Xianzong appointed his own military officers and staffed the regional bureaucracies once again with civil officials.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200451-76">[73]</a> However, Xianzong's successors proved less capable and more interested in the leisure of hunting, feasting, and playing outdoor sports, allowing eunuchs to amass more power as drafted scholar-officials caused strife in the bureaucracy with factional parties.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200214–16-77">[74]</a> The eunuchs' power was not challenged following the <a href="/wiki/Ganlu_Incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Ganlu Incident">Ganlu Incident</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wenzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Wenzong of Tang">Emperor Wenzong</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 826–840) failed in his plot to have them overthrown; instead, Wenzong's allies were publicly executed in Chang'an's <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an#West_Central_Chang'an" title="Chang'an">West Market</a> on the eunuchs' command.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006101-72">[69]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg/290px-Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg/435px-Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg/580px-Mogao_Cave_156_battle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1396" /></a><figcaption>A late Tang mural commemorating the victory of General <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Yichao" title="Zhang Yichao">Zhang Yichao</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Empire" title="Tibetan Empire">Tibetan Empire</a> in 848 – from <a href="/wiki/Mogao_Caves" title="Mogao Caves">Mogao cave</a> 156</figcaption></figure> Decades after the An Lushan rebellion, the Tang was able to muster enough power to launch offensive military campaigns, including its <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_Khaganate#Fall" title="Uyghur Khaganate">destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate</a> in Mongolia from 840 to 847.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaumer2012310-78">[75]</a> The Tang managed to restore indirect control over former territories as far west as the <a href="/wiki/Hexi_Corridor" title="Hexi Corridor">Hexi Corridor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gansu" title="Gansu">Gansu</a>; in 848, the general <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Yichao" title="Zhang Yichao">Zhang Yichao</a> (799–872) managed to wrestle control of the region from the Tibetan Empire during <a href="/wiki/Era_of_Fragmentation" title="Era of Fragmentation">its civil war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaenzer201635–37-79">[76]</a> Shortly afterwards, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang_(9th_century)" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (9th century)">Emperor Xuanzong of Tang</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 846–859) acknowledged Zhang as the protector (防禦使; fángyùshǐ) of Sha Prefecture, and military governor of the new <a href="/wiki/Guiyi_Circuit" title="Guiyi Circuit">Guiyi Circuit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End_of_the_dynasty">End of the dynasty</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: End of the dynasty">edit</a>]</div> In addition to factors like natural calamity and jiedushi claiming autonomy, a rebellion by <a href="/wiki/Huang_Chao" title="Huang Chao">Huang Chao</a> (874–884) devastated both northern and southern China, took an entire decade to suppress, resulted in the sacking of both Chang'an and Luoyang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005189–190-81">[78]</a> In 878–879, Huang's army committed <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_massacre" title="Guangzhou massacre">a massacre</a> in the southern port of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> against foreign Arab and Persian Muslim, Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian merchants.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGernet1996292-82">[79]</a> A medieval Chinese source claimed that Huang Chao killed 8 million people.<a href="#cite_note-83">[80]</a> The Tang never recovered from Huang's rebellion, which paved the way for the later overthrow of the Tang. Large groups of bandits in the size of small armies ravaged the countryside in the last years of the Tang. They smuggled illicit salt, ambushed merchants and convoys, and even besieged several walled cities.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006108-84">[81]</a> Amid the sacking of cities and murderous factional strife among eunuchs and officials, the top tier of aristocratic families, which had amassed a large fraction of the landed wealth and official positions, was largely destroyed or marginalised.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20036–7-85">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[83]</a> During the last two decades of the Tang dynasty, the gradual collapse of central authority led to the rise of the rival military figures <a href="/wiki/Li_Keyong" title="Li Keyong">Li Keyong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zhu_Wen" title="Zhu Wen">Zhu Wen</a> in northern China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20037–12-87">[84]</a> Tang forces had defeated Huang's rebellion with the aid of allied <a href="/wiki/Shatuo" title="Shatuo">Shatuo</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Turkic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkic people">Turkic people</a> of what is now <a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a>, led by Li Keyong. He was made a jiedushi, and later <a href="/wiki/Jin_(Later_Tang_precursor)" title="Jin (Later Tang precursor)">Prince of Jin</a>, bestowed with the imperial surname Li by the Tang court.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20036–7,_10,_12-88">[85]</a> Zhu Wen, originally a salt smuggler who served as a lieutenant under the rebel Huang Chao, surrendered to Tang forces. By helping to defeat Huang, he was renamed <a href="/wiki/Zhu_Quanzhong" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhu Quanzhong">Zhu Quanzhong</a> ("Zhu of Perfect Loyalty") and granted a rapid series of promotions to military governor of Xuanwu Circuit.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20037,_10,_12-89">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986c320–321footnote_h-90">[87]</a> In 901, from his power base of <a href="/wiki/Kaifeng" title="Kaifeng">Kaifeng</a>, Zhu Wen seized control of the Tang capital Chang'an and with it the imperial family.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20037-91">[88]</a> By 903, he forced <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Zhaozong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Zhaozong of Tang">Emperor Zhaozong of Tang</a> to move the capital to Luoyang, preparing to take the throne for himself. In 904, Zhu assassinated Emperor Zhaozong to replace him with the emperor's young son <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Ai_of_Tang" title="Emperor Ai of Tang">Emperor Ai of Tang</a>. In 905, Zhu executed the brothers of Emperor Ai as well as many officials and <a href="/wiki/Empress_He_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Empress He (Tang dynasty)">Empress Dowager He</a>. In 907, the Tang dynasty was ended when Zhu deposed Ai and took the throne for himself (known posthumously as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang). He established the <a href="/wiki/Later_Liang_(Five_Dynasties)" title="Later Liang (Five Dynasties)">Later Liang</a>, which inaugurated the <a href="/wiki/Five_Dynasties_and_Ten_Kingdoms_period" title="Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period">Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period</a>. A year later, Zhu had the deposed Emperor Ai poisoned to death.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote20037,_10,_12-89">[86]</a> Zhu Wen's enemy Li Keyong died in 908, having never claimed the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_sovereign" title="Chinese sovereign">title of emperor</a> out of loyalty to the Tang. His son <a href="/wiki/Li_Cunxu" title="Li Cunxu">Li Cunxu</a> (Emperor Zhuangzong) inherited his title Prince of Jin along with his father's rivalry against Zhu. In 923, Li Cunxu declared a "restored" Tang dynasty, the <a href="/wiki/Later_Tang" title="Later Tang">Later Tang</a>, before toppling the Later Liang dynasty the same year. However, southern China remained splintered into various small kingdoms until most of China was reunified under the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (960–1279). Control over parts of <a href="/wiki/Northeast_China" title="Northeast China">northeast China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Liao_dynasty" title="Liao dynasty">Liao dynasty</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Khitan_people" title="Khitan people">Khitan people</a> also stemmed from this period. In 905, their leader <a href="/wiki/Abaoji" title="Abaoji">Abaoji</a> formed a military alliance with Li Keyong against Zhu Wen but the Khitans eventually turned against the Later Tang, helping another Shatuo leader <a href="/wiki/Shi_Jingtang" title="Shi Jingtang">Shi Jingtang</a> of <a href="/wiki/Later_Jin_(Five_Dynasties)" title="Later Jin (Five Dynasties)">Later Jin</a> to overthrow Later Tang in 936.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMote200310–13-92">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Administration_and_politics">Administration and politics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Administration and politics">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Administrative divisions of the Tang dynasty">Administrative divisions of the Tang dynasty</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initial_reforms">Initial reforms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Initial reforms">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg/250px-%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg/330px-%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg/500px-%E6%9D%8E%E9%9A%86%E5%9F%BA%E5%83%8F.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1202" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong of Tang</a> wearing the robes and hat of a scholar</figcaption></figure> Taizong set out to solve internal problems within the government which had constantly plagued past dynasties. Building upon the Sui legal code, he issued <a href="/wiki/Tang_Code" title="Tang Code">a new legal code</a> that subsequent Chinese dynasties would model theirs upon, as well as neighbouring polities in <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> The earliest law code to survive was established in 653; it was divided into 500 articles specifying different crimes and penalties ranging from ten blows with a light stick, one hundred blows with a heavy rod, exile, penal servitude, or execution. The legal code distinguished different levels of severity in meted punishments when different members of the social and political hierarchy committed the same crime. For example, the severity of punishment was different when a servant or nephew killed a master or an uncle than when a master or uncle killed a servant or nephew.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999111–112-93">[90]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg/180px-CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg/270px-CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg/360px-CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_tri-coloured_figure_of_a_civil_official.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Tang <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_tomb_figures" title="Tang dynasty tomb figures">tomb figure</a> of an official dressed in <a href="/wiki/Hanfu" title="Hanfu">hanfu</a>. He is depicted with a tall hat, wide-sleeved belted outer garment, and a rectangular "kerchief" in front. A white inner gown hangs over his square shoes, and he holds a tablet containing a report to his superiors to his chest.</figcaption></figure> The Tang Code was largely retained by later codes such as the early <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a> (1368–1644) code of 1397,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrewRapp200025-94">[91]</a> yet there were several revisions in later times, such as <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Song_dynasty#Women:_legality_and_lifestyles" title="Society of the Song dynasty">improved property rights for women</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (960–1279).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999158-95">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBernhardt1995274–275-96">[93]</a> The Tang had three departments (省; shěng), which were obliged to draft, review, and implement policies respectively. There were also six ministries (部; bù) under the administrations that implemented policy, each of which was assigned different tasks. These <a href="/wiki/Three_Departments_and_Six_Ministries" title="Three Departments and Six Ministries">Three Departments and Six Ministries</a> included the personnel administration, finance, rites, military, justice, and public works—an administrative model which lasted until the fall of the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> (1644–1912).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200678-97">[94]</a> Although the founders of the Tang related to the glory of the earlier <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> (202 BC – 220 AD), the basis for much of their administrative organisation was very similar to the previous <a href="/wiki/Northern_and_Southern_dynasties" title="Northern and Southern dynasties">Northern and Southern dynasties</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Northern_Zhou" title="Northern Zhou">Northern Zhou</a> (6th century) <a href="/wiki/Fubing_system" title="Fubing system">fubing system</a> of divisional militia was continued by the Tang, along with farmer-soldiers serving in rotation from the capital or frontier in order to receive appropriated farmland. The <a href="/wiki/Equal-field_system" title="Equal-field system">equal-field system</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Wei" title="Northern Wei">Northern Wei</a> (4th–6th centuries) was also kept, although there were a few modifications.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> Although the central and local governments kept an enormous number of records about land property in order to assess taxes, it became common practice in the Tang for literate and affluent people to create their own private documents and signed contracts. These had their own signature and that of a witness and scribe in order to prove in court (if necessary) that their claim to property was legitimate. The prototype of this actually existed since the ancient Han dynasty, while contractual language became even more common and embedded into Chinese literary culture in later dynasties.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrook199859-98">[95]</a> The centre of the political power of the Tang was the capital city of <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Xi%27an" title="Xi'an">Xi'an</a>), where the emperor maintained his large palace quarters and entertained political emissaries with music, sports, acrobats, poetry, paintings, and <a href="/wiki/Pear_Garden" title="Pear Garden">dramatic theatre performances</a>. The capital was also filled with incredible amounts of riches and resources to spare. When the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Prefecture" title="Prefecture">prefectural</a> government officials travelled to the capital in 643 to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in and were renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Emperor Taizong ordered the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200259-99">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Imperial_examinations">Imperial examinations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Imperial examinations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Imperial_examination" title="Imperial examination">Imperial examination</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Imperial_examination_in_Chinese_mythology" title="Imperial examination in Chinese mythology">Imperial examination in Chinese mythology</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Civilserviceexam1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Civilserviceexam1.jpg/250px-Civilserviceexam1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Civilserviceexam1.jpg/330px-Civilserviceexam1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Civilserviceexam1.jpg/500px-Civilserviceexam1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4187" data-file-height="3140" /></a><figcaption>A Ming-era painting by <a href="/wiki/Qiu_Ying" title="Qiu Ying">Qiu Ying</a> depicting candidates for civil service gathered around the wall where examination results had been posted</figcaption></figure> Students of <a href="/wiki/Confucian" class="mw-redirect" title="Confucian">Confucian</a> studies were candidates for the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_examination" title="Imperial examination">imperial examinations</a>, which qualified their graduates for appointment to the local, provincial, and central government bureaucracies. Two types of exams were given, mingjing (明經; 'illuminating the classics') and jinshi (進士; 'presented scholar'). The mingjing was based upon the <a href="/wiki/Confucian_classics" class="mw-redirect" title="Confucian classics">Confucian classics</a> and tested the student's knowledge of a broad variety of texts. The jinshi tested a student's literary abilities in writing essays in response to questions on governance and politics, as well as in composing <a href="/wiki/Chinese_poetry" title="Chinese poetry">poetry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691–92-100">[97]</a> Candidates were also judged on proper deportment, appearance, speech, and <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligraphy</a>, all subjective criteria that favoured the wealthy over those of more modest means who were unable to pay tutors of <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a> and writing. Although a disproportionate number of civil officials came from aristocratic families, wealth and noble status were not prerequisites, and the exams were open to all male subjects whose fathers were not of the <a href="/wiki/Four_occupations" title="Four occupations">artisan or merchant classes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGascoigneGascoigne200395-101">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200697-102">[99]</a> To promote widespread Confucian education, the Tang government established state-run schools and issued standard versions of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Classics" class="mw-redirect" title="Five Classics">Five Classics</a> with commentaries.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999112-103">[100]</a> Open competition was designed to draw the best talent into government. But perhaps an even greater consideration for the Tang rulers was to avoid imperial dependence on powerful aristocratic families and <a href="/wiki/Warlord" title="Warlord">warlords</a> by recruiting a body of career officials having no family or local power base. The Tang law code ensured equal division of inherited property among legitimate heirs, encouraging <a href="/wiki/Social_mobility" title="Social mobility">social mobility</a> by preventing powerful families from becoming <a href="/wiki/Landed_nobility" title="Landed nobility">landed nobility</a> through <a href="/wiki/Primogeniture" title="Primogeniture">primogeniture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200683-104">[101]</a> The competition system proved successful, as <a href="/wiki/Scholar-officials" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholar-officials">scholar-officials</a> acquired status in their local communities while developing an esprit de corps that connected them to the imperial court. From Tang times until the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, scholar-officials served as intermediaries between the people and the government. The potential of a widespread examination system was not fully realised until the succeeding Song dynasty, when the merit-driven scholar official largely shed his aristocratic habits and defined his social status through the examination system.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006159-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200695-106">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200454-107">[104]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The examination system, used only on a small scale in Sui and Tang times, played a central role in the fashioning of this new elite. The early Song emperors, concerned above all to avoid domination of the government by military men, greatly expanded the civil service examination system and the government school system.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999145–146-108">[105]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_and_politics">Religion and politics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Religion and politics">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg/250px-Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg/330px-Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg/500px-Audience_by_Emperor_Tang_Xuanzong.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1063" data-file-height="643" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong of Tang</a> giving audience to <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Guo" class="mw-redirect" title="Zhang Guo">Zhang Guo</a>, by <a href="/wiki/Ren_Renfa" title="Ren Renfa">Ren Renfa</a> (1254–1327)</figcaption></figure> From the outset, religion played a role in Tang politics. In his bid for power, Li Yuan had attracted a following by claiming descent from the Taoist sage <a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> (<abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 6th century BC).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff200079-109">[106]</a> People bidding for office would request the prayers of Buddhist monks, with successful aspirants making donations in return. Before the persecution of Buddhism in the 9th century, Buddhism and Taoism were both accepted. Religion was central in the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 712–756). The Emperor invited Taoist and Buddhist monks and clerics to his court, exalted Laozi with grand titles, wrote commentary on Taoist scriptures, and set up a school to prepare candidates for Taoist examinations. In 726, he called upon the Indian monk <a href="/wiki/Vajrabodhi" title="Vajrabodhi">Vajrabodhi</a> (671–741) to perform <a href="/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">tantric</a> rites to avert a drought. In 742, he personally held the incense burner while patriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Shingon_Buddhism" title="Shingon Buddhism">Shingon school</a> <a href="/wiki/Amoghavajra" title="Amoghavajra">Amoghavajra</a> (705–774) recited "mystical incantations to secure the victory of Tang forces".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200699-52">[49]</a> Emperor Xuanzong closely regulated religious finances. Near the beginning of his reign in 713, he liquidated the <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an#Northwestern_Chang'an" title="Chang'an">Inexhaustible Treasury</a> of a prominent Buddhist monastery in Chang'an which had collected vast riches as multitudes of anonymous repentants left money, silk, and treasure at its doors. Although the monastery used its funds generously, the Emperor condemned it for fraudulent <a href="/wiki/History_of_banking_in_China" title="History of banking in China">banking practices</a>, and distributed its wealth to other Buddhist and Taoist monasteries, and to repair local statues, halls, and bridges.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200261-110">[107]</a> In 714, he forbade Chang'an shops from selling copied Buddhist sutras, giving a monopoly of this trade to the Buddhist clergy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200257-111">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxes_and_the_census">Taxes and the census</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Taxes and the census">edit</a>]</div> The Tang government attempted to create an accurate census of the empire's population, mostly for effective taxation and military conscription. The early Tang government established modest grain and cloth taxes on each household, persuading households to register and provide the government with accurate demographic information.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> In the official census of 609, the population was tallied at 9 million households, about 50 million people,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> and this number did not increase in the census of 742.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999141-112">[109]</a> <a href="/wiki/Patricia_Ebrey" class="mw-redirect" title="Patricia Ebrey">Patricia Ebrey</a> writes that nonwithstanding census undercounting, China's population had not grown significantly since <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Han_dynasty" title="History of the Han dynasty">the earlier Han dynasty</a>, which recorded 58 million people in 2 AD.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENishijima1986595–596-113">[110]</a> Adshead disagrees, estimating about 75 million people by 750.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200472-114">[111]</a> In the Tang census of 754, there were 1,859 cities, 321 <a href="/wiki/Prefecture_(China)" title="Prefecture (China)">prefectures</a>, and 1,538 <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of the People's Republic of China">counties</a> throughout the empire.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200245-115">[112]</a> Although there were many large and prominent cities, the rural and agrarian areas comprised 80–90% of the population.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200232-116">[113]</a> There was also a dramatic migration from <a href="/wiki/Northern_and_southern_China" title="Northern and southern China">northern to southern China</a>, as the North held 75% of the overall population at the dynasty's inception, which by its end was reduced to 50%.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200475-117">[114]</a> The Chinese population would not dramatically increase until the Song dynasty, when it doubled to 100 million because of extensive rice cultivation in central and southern China, coupled with higher yields of grain sold in a growing market.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006156-118">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_and_foreign_policy">Military and foreign policy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Military and foreign policy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Military history of the Tang dynasty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naval_history_of_China" title="Naval history of China">Naval history of China</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jimi_system" title="Jimi system">Jimi system</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Guards_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Imperial Guards (Tang dynasty)">Imperial Guards (Tang dynasty)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg/330px-Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg/500px-Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg/960px-Emperor_Taizong_gives_an_audience_to_the_ambassador_of_Tibet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1890" data-file-height="1049" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Taizong of Tang">Emperor Taizong</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 626–649) receives <a href="/wiki/Gar_Tongtsen_Y%C3%BClsung" class="mw-redirect" title="Gar Tongtsen Yülsung">Gar Tongtsen Yülsung</a>, ambassador of the <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Empire" title="Tibetan Empire">Tibetan Empire</a>, at his court – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_Receiving_the_Tibetan_Envoy" title="Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy">later copy</a> of an original painted in 641 by <a href="/wiki/Yan_Liben" title="Yan Liben">Yan Liben</a> (600–673)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protectorates_and_tributaries">Protectorates and tributaries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Protectorates and tributaries">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_in_Inner_Asia" title="Tang dynasty in Inner Asia">Tang dynasty in Inner Asia</a></div> The 7th and first half of the 8th century are generally considered to be the era in which the Tang reached the zenith of its power. In this period, Tang control extended further west than any previous dynasty, stretching from north Vietnam in the south, to a point north of <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a> bordering Persia in the west, to northern Korea in the north-east.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002xii,_4-119">[116]</a> Some of the kingdoms paying tribute to the Tang dynasty included <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a>, Nepal, <a href="/wiki/Khotan" class="mw-redirect" title="Khotan">Khotan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kucha" title="Kucha">Kucha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kashgar" title="Kashgar">Kashgar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silla" title="Silla">Silla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Champa" title="Champa">Champa</a>, and kingdoms located in <a href="/wiki/Amu_Darya" title="Amu Darya">Amu Darya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syr_Darya" title="Syr Darya">Syr Darya</a> valley.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield200447-120">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000116–118-121">[118]</a> Turkic nomads addressed the Tang emperor as <a href="/wiki/Tian_Kehan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tian Kehan">Tian Kehan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000124-35">[33]</a> After the widespread Göktürk revolt of <a href="/wiki/Shabol%C3%BCe_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shabolüe Khan">Shabolüe Khan</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 658) was put down at <a href="/wiki/Issyk_Kul" class="mw-redirect" title="Issyk Kul">Issyk Kul</a> in 657 by <a href="/wiki/Su_Dingfang" title="Su Dingfang">Su Dingfang</a> (591–667), Emperor Gaozong established several protectorates governed by a Protectorate General or Grand Protectorate General, which extended the Chinese <a href="/wiki/Sphere_of_influence" title="Sphere of influence">sphere of influence</a> as far as <a href="/wiki/Herat" title="Herat">Herat</a> in Western Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000118,_122-122">[119]</a> Protectorate Generals were given a great deal of autonomy to handle local crises without waiting for central admission. After Xuanzong's reign, jiedushi were given enormous power, including the ability to maintain their own armies, collect taxes, and pass their titles on hereditarily. This is commonly recognised as the beginning of the fall of Tang's central government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006100-59">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang200391-67">[64]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_(%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93),_Zhao_Mausoleum,_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17,_ie_644_CE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg/250px-Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg/330px-Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg/500px-Officer_of_the_Guard_of_Honour._Tomb_of_Princess_Changle_%28%E9%95%BF%E4%B9%90%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E5%A2%93%29%2C_Zhao_Mausoleum%2C_Shaanxi_province._Tang_Zhenguan_year_17%2C_ie_644_CE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="737" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Chinese officer of the Guard of Honour in the Tomb of Princess Chang-le (长乐公主墓) – <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Mausoleum_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Zhao Mausoleum (Tang dynasty)">Zhao Mausoleum</a>, Shaanxi</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soldiers_and_conscription">Soldiers and conscription</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Soldiers and conscription">edit</a>]</div> By 737, Emperor Xuanzong discarded the policy of conscripting soldiers that were replaced every three years, replacing them with long-service soldiers who were more battle-hardened and efficient. It was more economically feasible as well, since training new recruits and sending them out to the frontier every three years drained the treasury.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20029-123">[120]</a> By the late 7th century, the <a href="/wiki/Fubing" class="mw-redirect" title="Fubing">fubing</a> troops began abandoning military service and the homes provided to them in the equal-field system. The supposed standard of 100 <a href="/wiki/Mu_(unit_of_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mu (unit of area)">mu</a> of land allotted to each family was in fact decreasing in size in places where population expanded and the wealthy bought up most of the land. Hard-pressed peasants and vagrants were then induced into military service with benefits of exemption from both taxation and corvée labour service, as well as provisions for farmland and dwellings for dependents who accompanied soldiers on the frontier.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff2002208–209-124">[121]</a> By 742, the total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies had risen to about 500,000 men.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20029-123">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eastern_regions">Eastern regions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Eastern regions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_East" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the East">Protectorate General to Pacify the East</a></div> In East Asia, Tang military campaigns were less successful elsewhere than in previous imperial Chinese dynasties. <a href="/wiki/Goguryeo%E2%80%93Sui_War" title="Goguryeo–Sui War">Like the emperors of the Sui dynasty before him</a>, Taizong established a military campaign in 644 against the Korean kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Goguryeo" title="Goguryeo">Goguryeo</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Goguryeo%E2%80%93Tang_War" title="Goguryeo–Tang War">Goguryeo–Tang War</a>; however, this led to its withdrawal in the <a href="/wiki/First_conflict_of_the_Goguryeo%E2%80%93Tang_War" title="First conflict of the Goguryeo–Tang War">first campaign</a> because they failed to overcome the successful defence led by General <a href="/wiki/Yeon_Gaesomun" title="Yeon Gaesomun">Yeon Gaesomun</a>. The Tang entered into the <a href="/wiki/Silla%E2%80%93Tang_alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="Silla–Tang alliance">Silla–Tang alliance</a>, the Chinese fought against <a href="/wiki/Baekje" title="Baekje">Baekje</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Kofun_period" title="Kofun period">Yamato Japanese</a> allies in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Baekgang" title="Battle of Baekgang">Battle of Baekgang</a> in August 663, a decisive Tang–Silla victory. The Tang dynasty navy had <a href="/wiki/Naval_history_of_China#Tang_era" title="Naval history of China">several different ship types</a> at its disposal to engage in <a href="/wiki/Naval_warfare" title="Naval warfare">naval warfare</a>, these ships described by Li Quan in his Taipai Yinjing (Canon of the White and Gloomy Planet of War) of 759.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986c685–687-125">[122]</a> The Battle of Baekgang was actually a restoration movement by remnant forces of Baekje, since their kingdom was toppled in 660 by a Tang–Silla invasion, led by Chinese general Su Dingfang and Korean general <a href="/wiki/Kim_Yushin" class="mw-redirect" title="Kim Yushin">Kim Yushin</a> (595–673). In another joint invasion with Silla, the Tang army severely weakened the Goguryeo Kingdom in the north by taking out its outer forts in 645. With joint attacks by Silla and Tang armies under commander <a href="/wiki/Li_Shiji" title="Li Shiji">Li Shiji</a> (594–669), the Kingdom of Goguryeo was destroyed by 668.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20024-126">[123]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mogao_Cave_61,_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg/220px-Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg/330px-Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg/440px-Mogao_Cave_61%2C_painting_of_Mount_Wutai_monasteries.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1579" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>A 10th-century mural painting in the <a href="/wiki/Mogao_Caves" title="Mogao Caves">Mogao Caves</a> at <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a> showing monastic architecture from <a href="/wiki/Mount_Wutai" title="Mount Wutai">Mount Wutai</a>, Tang dynasty; <a href="/wiki/Japanese_architecture" title="Japanese architecture">Japanese architecture</a> of this period was influenced by Tang Chinese architecture</figcaption></figure> Although they were formerly enemies, the Tang accepted officials and generals of Goguryeo into their administration and military, such as the brothers <a href="/wiki/Yeon_Namsaeng" title="Yeon Namsaeng">Yeon Namsaeng</a> (634–679) and <a href="/wiki/Yeon_Namsan" title="Yeon Namsan">Yeon Namsan</a> (639–701). From 668 to 676, the Tang Empire controlled northern Korea. However, Silla broke the alliance in 671, and began the <a href="/wiki/Silla%E2%80%93Tang_War" title="Silla–Tang War">Silla–Tang War</a> to expel the Tang forces. At the same time the Tang faced threats on its western border when a large Chinese army was defeated by the Tibetans on the Dafei River in 670. By 676, the Tang army was expelled out of Korea by <a href="/wiki/Later_Silla" class="mw-redirect" title="Later Silla">a unified Silla</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKang200654-127">[124]</a> Following a revolt of the Eastern Turks in 679, the Tang abandoned its Korean campaigns.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGraff2002201-128">[125]</a> Although the Tang had fought the Japanese, they still held cordial relations with Japan. There were numerous <a href="/wiki/Imperial_embassies_to_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial embassies to China">Imperial embassies to China</a> from Japan, diplomatic missions that were not halted until 894 by <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Uda" title="Emperor Uda">Emperor Uda</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 887–897), upon persuasion by <a href="/wiki/Sugawara_no_Michizane" title="Sugawara no Michizane">Sugawara no Michizane</a> (845–903).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKitagawaTsuchida1975222-129">[126]</a> The Japanese <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Tenmu" title="Emperor Tenmu">Emperor Tenmu</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 672–686) even established his conscripted army on that of the Chinese model, based his state ceremonies on the Chinese model, and constructed his palace at <a href="/wiki/Fujiwara-ky%C5%8D" title="Fujiwara-kyō">Fujiwara</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_architecture" title="Chinese architecture">Chinese model of architecture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006144-130">[127]</a> Many Chinese Buddhist monks came to Japan to help further the spread of Buddhism as well. Two 7th-century monks, Zhi Yu and Zhi You, visited the court of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Tenji" title="Emperor Tenji">Emperor Tenji</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 661–672), whereupon they presented a gift of a <a href="/wiki/South-pointing_chariot" title="South-pointing chariot">south-pointing chariot</a> that they had crafted.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b289-131">[128]</a> This vehicle employing a <a href="/wiki/Differential_gear" class="mw-redirect" title="Differential gear">differential gear</a> was reproduced in several models for Tenji in 666, as recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Nihon_Shoki" title="Nihon Shoki">Nihon Shoki</a> (720).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b289-131">[128]</a> Japanese monks also visited China; such was the case with <a href="/wiki/Ennin" title="Ennin">Ennin</a> (794–864), who wrote of his travel experiences including travels along the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)" title="Grand Canal (China)">Grand Canal</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986c308-132">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940152-133">[130]</a> The Japanese monk <a href="/wiki/Enchin" title="Enchin">Enchin</a> (814–891) stayed in China from 839 to 847, and again from 853 to 858, landing near <a href="/wiki/Fuzhou" title="Fuzhou">Fuzhou</a>, Fujian and setting sail for Japan from <a href="/wiki/Taizhou,_Zhejiang" title="Taizhou, Zhejiang">Taizhou, Zhejiang</a> during his second trip to China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940155-134">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200451-76">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Western_and_Northern_regions">Western and Northern regions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Western and Northern regions">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_West" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the West">Protectorate General to Pacify the West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_North" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the North">Protectorate General to Pacify the North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inner_Asia_during_the_Tang_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner Asia during the Tang dynasty">Inner Asia during the Tang dynasty</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tibet_and_the_Tang_and_Song_dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibet and the Tang and Song dynasties">Tibet and the Tang and Song dynasties</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg/250px-Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg/330px-Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg/500px-Tang_Pottery_Horse_%26_Rider2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Tomb figure of mounted warrior similar to the one unearthed from the tomb of crown prince <a href="/wiki/Li_Chongrun" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Chongrun">Li Chongrun</a></figcaption></figure> The Sui and Tang carried out successful military campaigns against the steppe nomads. Chinese foreign policy to the north and west now had to deal with <a href="/wiki/Turkic_peoples" title="Turkic peoples">Turkic</a> nomads, who were becoming the most dominant ethnic group in Central Asia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006113-135">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXue1992149–152,_257–264-136">[133]</a> To handle and avoid any threats posed by the Turks, the Sui government repaired fortifications and received their trade and tribute missions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200692-137">[134]</a> They sent four royal princesses to form <a href="/wiki/Heqin" title="Heqin">heqin</a> marriage alliances with Turkic clan leaders, in 597, 599, 614, and 617. The Sui stirred trouble and conflict among ethnic groups against the Turks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20022–3-138">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECui2005655–659-139">[136]</a> As early as the Sui dynasty, the Turks had become <a href="/wiki/Turks_in_the_Tang_military" title="Turks in the Tang military">a major militarised force employed by the Chinese</a>. When the <a href="/wiki/Khitans" class="mw-redirect" title="Khitans">Khitans</a> began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20,000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999111-140">[137]</a> On two occasions between 635 and 636, Tang royal princesses were married to Turk mercenaries or generals in Chinese service.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECui2005655–659-139">[136]</a> Throughout the Tang dynasty until the end of 755, there were approximately ten Turkic generals serving under the Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXue1992788-141">[138]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000125-142">[139]</a> While most of the Tang army was made of fubing Chinese conscripts, the majority of the troops led by Turkic generals were of non-Chinese origin, campaigning largely in the western frontier where the presence of fubing troops was low.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELiu200085–95-143">[140]</a> Some "Turkic" troops were tribalised Han Chinese, a <a href="/wiki/Desinicised" class="mw-redirect" title="Desinicised">desinicised</a> people.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGernet1996248-144">[141]</a> Civil war in China was almost totally diminished by 626, along with the 628 defeat of the Ordos warlord <a href="/wiki/Liang_Shidu" title="Liang Shidu">Liang Shidu</a>; after these internal conflicts, the Tang began an offensive against the Turks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXue1992226–227-145">[142]</a> In 630, Tang armies captured areas of the Ordos Desert, modern-day <a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a> province, and southern <a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a> from the Turks.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999111-140">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXue1992380–386-146">[143]</a> After this military victory, On June 11, 631, Emperor Taizong also sent envoys to the <a href="/wiki/Xueyantuo" title="Xueyantuo">Xueyantuo</a> bearing gold and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured during the <a href="/wiki/Transition_from_Sui_to_Tang" title="Transition from Sui to Tang">transition from Sui to Tang</a> from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20022-147">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXue1992222–225-148">[145]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg/250px-Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="390" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg/330px-Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg/500px-Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_162.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1556" data-file-height="3368" /></a><figcaption>Tang <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_tomb_figures" title="Tang dynasty tomb figures">Tomb guardian</a>, early 8th century</figcaption></figure> While the Turks were settled in the Ordos region (former territory of the <a href="/wiki/Xiongnu" title="Xiongnu">Xiongnu</a>), the Tang government took on the military policy of dominating the central steppe. As during the earlier Han dynasty, the Tang and their Turkic allies conquered and subdued Central Asia during the 640s and 650s.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200692-137">[134]</a> During Emperor Taizong's reign alone, large campaigns were launched against not only the <a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk" class="mw-redirect" title="Göktürk">Göktürks</a>, but also separate campaigns against the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong%27s_campaign_against_Tuyuhun" title="Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun">Tuyuhun</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_the_oasis_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang campaign against the oasis states">oasis states</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong%27s_campaign_against_Xueyantuo" title="Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo">Xueyantuo</a>. Under Emperor Gaozong, a campaign led by the general <a href="/wiki/Su_Dingfang" title="Su Dingfang">Su Dingfang</a> was <a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Western_Turks" title="Conquest of the Western Turks">launched against the Western Turks</a> ruled by Ashina Helu.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkaff2009183-149">[146]</a> The Tang Empire competed with the <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibetan Kingdom">Tibetan Empire</a> for control of areas in Inner and Central Asia, which was at times settled with marriage alliances such as the marrying of <a href="/wiki/Princess_Wencheng" title="Princess Wencheng">Princess Wencheng</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 680) to <a href="/wiki/Songts%C3%A4n_Gampo" class="mw-redirect" title="Songtsän Gampo">Songtsän Gampo</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 649).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield2004193-150">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen200324,_30–31-151">[148]</a> A Tibetan tradition mentions that Chinese troops captured Lhasa after Songtsän Gampo's death,<a href="#cite_note-152">[149]</a> but no such invasion is mentioned in either Chinese annals or the Tibetan manuscripts of <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a>.<a href="#cite_note-153">[150]</a> There was a string of conflicts with Tibet over territories in the <a href="/wiki/Tarim_Basin" title="Tarim Basin">Tarim Basin</a> between 670 and 692; in 763, the Tibetans captured Chang'an for fifteen days during the An Lushan rebellion.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeckwith1987146-154">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStein197265-155">[152]</a> In fact, it was during this rebellion that the Tang withdrew its western garrisons stationed in what is now <a href="/wiki/Gansu" title="Gansu">Gansu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a>, which the Tibetans then occupied along with the territory of what is now <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000109-156">[153]</a> Hostilities between the Tang and Tibet continued until they signed the <a href="/wiki/Changqing_Treaty" title="Changqing Treaty">Changqing Treaty</a> in 821.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200211-157">[154]</a> The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on <a href="/wiki/Tang%E2%80%93Tibet_Treaty_Inscription" title="Tang–Tibet Treaty Inscription">a stone pillar</a> outside the <a href="/wiki/Jokhang" title="Jokhang">Jokhang</a> temple in Lhasa.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERichardson1985106–143-158">[155]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg/220px-Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg/330px-Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg/440px-Emperor_Taizongs_horses_by_Yan_Liben.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="623" /></a><figcaption>A bas relief of a soldier and the emperor's horse, <a href="/wiki/Autumn_Dew" class="mw-redirect" title="Autumn Dew">Autumn Dew</a>, with elaborate saddle and stirrups, designed by <a href="/wiki/Yan_Liben" title="Yan Liben">Yan Liben</a>, from the tomb of Emperor Taizong c. 650</figcaption></figure> During the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_conquest_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic conquest of Persia">Islamic conquest of Persia</a> (633–656), the son of the last ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Sasanian Empire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peroz_III" title="Peroz III">Prince Peroz</a> and his court moved to Tang China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield200447-120">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198510,_25–26-159">[156]</a> According to the <a href="/wiki/Old_Book_of_Tang" title="Old Book of Tang">Old Book of Tang</a>, Peroz was made the head of a Governorate of Persia in present-day <a href="/wiki/Zaranj" title="Zaranj">Zaranj</a>, Afghanistan. During this conquest of Persia, the <a href="/wiki/Rashidun" title="Rashidun">Rashidun</a> Caliph <a href="/wiki/Uthman" title="Uthman">Uthman</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 644–656) sent an embassy to the Tang court at Chang'an.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000125-142">[139]</a> Arab sources claim Umayyad commander <a href="/wiki/Qutayba_ibn_Muslim" title="Qutayba ibn Muslim">Qutayba ibn Muslim</a> briefly took <a href="/wiki/Shule_Kingdom" title="Shule Kingdom">Kashgar</a> from China and withdrew after an agreement,<a href="#cite_note-160">[157]</a> but modern historians entirely dismiss this claim.<a href="#cite_note-161">[158]</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-163">[160]</a> The Arab <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a> in 715 deposed <a href="/wiki/Ikhshid" title="Ikhshid">Ikhshid</a>, the king the <a href="/wiki/Fergana_Valley" title="Fergana Valley">Fergana Valley</a>, and installed a new king Alutar on the throne. The deposed king fled to <a href="/wiki/Kucha" title="Kucha">Kucha</a> (seat of <a href="/wiki/Anxi_Protectorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Anxi Protectorate">Anxi Protectorate</a>), and sought Chinese intervention. The Chinese sent 10,000 troops under Zhang Xiaosong to <a href="/wiki/Ferghana" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferghana">Ferghana</a>. He defeated Alutar and the Arab occupation force at <a href="/wiki/Namangan" title="Namangan">Namangan</a> and reinstalled Ikhshid on the throne.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBai2003235–236-164">[161]</a> The Tang defeated the Arab <a href="/wiki/Umayyad" class="mw-redirect" title="Umayyad">Umayyad</a> invaders at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aksu_(717)" title="Battle of Aksu (717)">Battle of Aksu (717)</a>. The Arab Umayyad commander Al-Yashkuri and his army fled to Tashkent after they were defeated.<a href="#cite_note-165">[162]</a> The Turgesh then <a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Transoxiana#Umayyad–Türgesh_Wars" title="Muslim conquest of Transoxiana">crushed the Arab Umayyads</a> and drove them out. By the 740s, the <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Khorasan</a> had reestablished a presence in the <a href="/wiki/Ferghana" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferghana">Ferghana</a> basin and in <a href="/wiki/Sogdiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sogdiana">Sogdiana</a>. At the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Talas" title="Battle of Talas">Battle of Talas</a> in 751, <a href="/wiki/Karluks" title="Karluks">Karluk</a> mercenaries under the Chinese defected, helping the Arab armies of the Caliphate to defeat the Tang force under commander <a href="/wiki/Gao_Xianzhi" title="Gao Xianzhi">Gao Xianzhi</a>. Although the battle itself was not of the greatest significance militarily, this was a pivotal moment in history, as it marks the spread of Chinese <a href="/wiki/Papermaking" title="Papermaking">papermaking</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBai2003242–243-166">[163]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005183-167">[164]</a> into regions west of China as captured Chinese soldiers shared the technique of papermaking to the Arabs. These techniques ultimately reached Europe by the 12th century through <a href="/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">Arab-controlled Spain</a>.<a href="#cite_note-168">[165]</a> Although they had fought at Talas, on June 11, 758, an <a href="/wiki/Abbasid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid">Abbasid</a> embassy arrived at Chang'an simultaneously with the Uyghurs bearing gifts for the Tang emperor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198526-169">[166]</a> In 788–789 the Chinese concluded a military alliance with the <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Uyghur people">Uyghur</a> Turks who twice defeated the Tibetans, in 789 near the town of <a href="/wiki/Gaochang" title="Gaochang">Gaochang</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dzungaria" title="Dzungaria">Dzungaria</a>, and in 791 near <a href="/wiki/Ningxia" title="Ningxia">Ningxia</a> on the Yellow River.<a href="#cite_note-170">[167]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg/250px-Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg/330px-Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg/500px-Illustration_of_Byzantine_embassy_to_Tang_Taizong_643_CE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="898" data-file-height="718" /></a><figcaption>Illustration of the 643 Byzantine embassy to <a href="/wiki/Tang_Taizong" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang Taizong">Tang Taizong</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Needham" title="Joseph Needham">Joseph Needham</a> writes that a <a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/s:%E6%96%B0%E5%94%90%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7221%E4%B8%8B" class="extiw" title="zh:s:新唐書/卷221下">tributary embassy came to the court of Emperor Taizong in 643</a> from the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Patriarchs_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Patriarchs of Antioch">Patriarch of Antioch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b476-171">[168]</a> However, <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hirth" title="Friedrich Hirth">Friedrich Hirth</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Sinologists" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinologists">sinologists</a> such as S. A. M. Adshead have identified fulin (拂菻) in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Book_of_Tang" title="Old Book of Tang">Old</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Book_of_Tang" title="New Book of Tang">New Book of Tang</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, which those histories directly associated with <a href="/wiki/Daqin" title="Daqin">Daqin</a> (i.e. the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead1995104–106-172">[169]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hirth2000-173">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYule191554–55-174">[171]</a> The embassy sent in 643 by Boduoli (波多力) was identified as Byzantine ruler <a href="/wiki/Constans_II" title="Constans II">Constans II</a> Pogonatos, and <a href="/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations" title="Sino-Roman relations">further embassies</a> were recorded as being sent into the 8th century.<a href="#cite_note-Hirth2000-173">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYule191554–55-174">[171]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead1995104–106-172">[169]</a> Adshead offers a different transliteration stemming from "<a href="/wiki/Patriarch" title="Patriarch">patriarch</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a>", possibly a reference to one of the acting <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regents</a> for the young Byzantine monarch.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead1995105-175">[172]</a> The Old and New Book of Tang also provide a description of the Byzantine capital <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBall2016152–153endnote_114-176">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYule191546–48-177">[174]</a> including <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678)" title="Siege of Constantinople (674–678)">how it was besieged</a> by the Da Shi (大食, i.e. the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a>) forces of <a href="/wiki/Mu%27awiya_I" title="Mu'awiya I">Mu'awiya I</a>, who forced them to pay tribute to the Arabs.<a href="#cite_note-Hirth2000-173">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYule191548–49-178">[175]</a> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:150px;max-width:150px"><div class="thumbimage" style="border:none;;height:197px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A trout" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg/148px-Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg" decoding="async" width="148" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg/222px-Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg/296px-Gilt_silver_jar_with_pattern_of_dancing_horses.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">A Tang <a href="/wiki/Gilding" title="Gilding">gilt</a>-silver jar, shaped in the style of a northern nomad's leather bag<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999127-179">[176]</a> decorated with a horse dancing with a cup of wine in its mouth, as the horses of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong</a> were trained to do.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999127-179">[176]</a></div></div></div></div></div> Through use of the land trade along the <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> and maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to acquire and gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury, and contemporary items. From Europe, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, the Tang dynasty were able to acquire new ideas in fashion, new types of ceramics, and improved silver-smithing techniques. The Tang also gradually adopted the foreign concept of stools and chairs as seating, whereas the Chinese beforehand always sat on mats placed on the floor.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999118–119-180">[177]</a> People of the Middle East coveted and purchased Chinese goods in bulk, including silks, porcelain, and <a href="/wiki/Lacquerware" title="Lacquerware">lacquerwares</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006112-181">[178]</a> Songs, dances, and musical instruments from foreign regions became popular in China during the Tang dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006114-182">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield2004255-183">[180]</a> These musical instruments included <a href="/wiki/Oboe" title="Oboe">oboes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flute" title="Flute">flutes</a>, and small lacquered drums from <a href="/wiki/Kucha" title="Kucha">Kucha</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Tarim_Basin" title="Tarim Basin">Tarim Basin</a>, and percussion instruments from India such as <a href="/wiki/Cymbal" title="Cymbal">cymbals</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006114-182">[179]</a> At the court there were nine musical ensembles (expanded from seven in the Sui dynasty) that played ecletic Asian music.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002134-184">[181]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg/250px-Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg/330px-Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg/500px-Qianfengquanbao_and_Qianyuanzhongbao.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="1820" /></a><figcaption>Tang <a href="/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao" title="Kaiyuan Tongbao">Kaiyuan Tongbao</a> coin, first minted in 621 in Chang'an], a model for the Japanese 8th-century <a href="/wiki/Wad%C5%8Dkaichin" title="Wadōkaichin">Wadōkaichin</a></figcaption></figure> There was great interaction with India, a hub for Buddhist knowledge, with famous travellers such as <a href="/wiki/Xuanzang" title="Xuanzang">Xuanzang</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 664) visiting the South Asian state. After a 17-year trip, Xuanzang managed to bring back valuable <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> texts to be translated into Chinese. There was also a <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkic</a>–Chinese dictionary available for serious scholars and students, while Turkic folk songs gave inspiration to some Chinese poetry.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198528-185">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005182-186">[183]</a> In the interior of China, trade was facilitated by the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canal_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Canal of China">Grand Canal</a> and the Tang government's rationalisation of the greater canal system that reduced costs of transporting grain and other commodities.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn20027-54">[51]</a> The state also managed roughly 32,100 km (19,900 mi) of <a href="/wiki/Postal_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Postal administration">postal service</a> routes by horse or boat.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200490-187">[184]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Silk_Road">Silk Road</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Silk Road">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_(no_background).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg/250px-Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg/330px-Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg/500px-Tang_Sancai_Porcelain_with_Musicians_on_a_Camel_%28no_background%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2982" data-file-height="4676" /></a><figcaption>A 723 Tang <a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">sancai</a> statuette of <a href="/wiki/Sogdia" title="Sogdia">Sogdian</a> musicians riding on a <a href="/wiki/Bactrian_camel" title="Bactrian camel">Bactrian camel</a></figcaption></figure> Although the <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> from China to Europe and the Western world was initially formulated during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han" title="Emperor Wu of Han">Emperor Wu</a> (141–87 BC) during the Han, it was reopened by the Tang in 639, when <a href="/wiki/Hou_Junji" title="Hou Junji">Hou Junji</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 643) conquered the West, and remained open for almost four decades. It was closed after the Tibetans captured it in 678, but in 699, the Silk Road reopened when the Tang reconquered the <a href="/wiki/Four_Garrisons_of_Anxi" title="Four Garrisons of Anxi">Four Garrisons of Anxi</a> originally installed in 640,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchett2000118-188">[185]</a> once again connecting China directly to the West for land-based trade.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005179-189">[186]</a> The Tang captured the vital route through the <a href="/wiki/Gilgit" title="Gilgit">Gilgit</a> valley from Tibet in 722, lost it to the Tibetans in 737, and regained it under the command of the Goguryeo-Korean General Gao Xianzhi.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen200330–32-190">[187]</a> When the An Lushan rebellion ended in 763, the Tang Empire withdrew its troops from its western lands, allowing the Tibetan Empire to largely cut off China's direct access to the Silk Road. An internal rebellion in 848 ousted the Tibetan rulers, and the Tang regained the northwestern prefectures from Tibet in 851. These lands contained crucial grazing areas and pastures for raising horses that the Tang dynasty desperately needed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200211-157">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield200457,_228-191">[188]</a> Despite the many expatriate European travellers coming into China to live and trade, many travellers, mainly religious monks and missionaries, recorded China's stringent immigrant laws. As the monk Xuanzang and many other monk travellers attested to, there were many government checkpoints along the Silk Road that examined travel permits into the Tang Empire. Furthermore, banditry was a problem along the checkpoints and oasis towns, as Xuanzang also recorded that his group of travellers were assaulted by bandits on multiple occasions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006112-181">[178]</a> The Silk Road also affected the art from the period. Horses became a significant symbol of prosperity and power as well as an instrument of military and diplomatic policy. Horses were also revered as a relative of the dragon.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews201025-192">[189]</a> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Tang sancai glazed tomb figure an equestrian figure on a horse"><img alt="A Tang sancai glazed tomb figure an equestrian figure on a horse" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg/200px-20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg/300px-20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg/400px-20090822_Shanghai_Museum_3596.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2014" data-file-height="1952" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A Tang <a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">sancai</a> glazed <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_tomb_figure" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang dynasty tomb figure">tomb figure</a> an equestrian figure on a horse</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_pottery_horse,_detail_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A sancai glazed horse tomb figure excavated from Xi'an"><img alt="A sancai glazed horse tomb figure excavated from Xi'an" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_pottery_horse%2C_detail_1.jpg/250px-CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_pottery_horse%2C_detail_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_pottery_horse%2C_detail_1.jpg/330px-CMOC_Treasures_of_Ancient_China_exhibit_-_pottery_horse%2C_detail_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="2000" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A sancai glazed horse tomb figure excavated from <a href="/wiki/Xi%27an" title="Xi'an">Xi'an</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seaports_and_maritime_trade">Seaports and maritime trade</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Seaports and maritime trade">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg/250px-Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg/330px-Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg/500px-Chinese_Slave_trade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="903" /></a><figcaption>A contract from the Tang dynasty found in the <a href="/wiki/Astana_Cemetery" title="Astana Cemetery">Astana Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Turfan" class="mw-redirect" title="Turfan">Turfan</a> that records the purchase of a 15-year-old slave for six bolts of plain silk and five <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage" title="Ancient Chinese coinage">Chinese coins</a></figcaption></figure> Chinese envoys had been sailing through the Indian Ocean to states of India as early as the 2nd century BC,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESun1989161–167-193">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChen200267–71-194">[191]</a> yet it was during the Tang dynasty that a strong Chinese maritime presence could be found in the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> and <a href="/wiki/Red_Sea" title="Red Sea">Red Sea</a>, into <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> (sailing up the <a href="/wiki/Euphrates" title="Euphrates">Euphrates</a> River in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>), <a href="/wiki/Arabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabia">Arabia</a>, Egypt, <a href="/wiki/Aksum" class="mw-redirect" title="Aksum">Aksum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowman2000104–105-195">[192]</a> During the Tang dynasty, thousands of foreign expatriate merchants came and lived in numerous Chinese cities to do business with China, including <a href="/wiki/Persians" title="Persians">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> Indians, <a href="/wiki/Malays_(ethnic_group)" title="Malays (ethnic group)">Malays</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bengalis" title="Bengalis">Bengalis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khmers" class="mw-redirect" title="Khmers">Khmers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chams" title="Chams">Chams</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China" title="History of the Jews in China">Jews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nestorian_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Nestorian Christians">Nestorian Christians</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200246-196">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198520-197">[194]</a> In 748, the Buddhist monk Jian Zhen described <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> as a bustling mercantile business center where many large and impressive foreign ships came to dock. He wrote that "many large ships came from <a href="/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Borneo</a>, Persia, Qunglun (<a href="/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a>) ... with ... spices, pearls, and jade piled up mountain high",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETang199161-198">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198515-199">[196]</a> as written in the Yue Jue Shu (Lost Records of the State of Yue). Relations with the Arabs were often strained: When the imperial government was attempting to quell the An Lushan rebellion, Arab and Persian pirates burned and looted Canton on October 30, 758.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200211-157">[154]</a> The Tang government reacted by shutting the port of Canton down for roughly five decades; thus, foreign vessels docked at <a href="/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a> instead.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198516-200">[197]</a> However, when the port reopened, it continued to thrive. In 851, the Arab merchant <a href="/wiki/Sulaiman_al-Tajir" title="Sulaiman al-Tajir">Sulaiman al-Tajir</a> observed the manufacturing of porcelain in Guangzhou and admired its transparent quality.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShen1996163-201">[198]</a> He also provided a description of Guangzhou's landmarks, granaries, local government administration, some of its written records, treatment of travellers, along with the use of ceramics, rice, wine, and tea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoods1996143-202">[199]</a> Their presence ended in the vengeful <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou_massacre" title="Guangzhou massacre">Guangzhou massacre</a> by the rebel Huang Chao in 878, who purportedly slaughtered thousands regardless of ethnicity.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006108-84">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198510,_16-203">[200]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005190-204">[201]</a> Huang's rebellion was eventually suppressed in 884. Vessels from other East Asian states such as <a href="/wiki/Silla" title="Silla">Silla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Balhae" title="Balhae">Bohai</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Hizen_Province" title="Hizen Province">Hizen Province</a> of Japan were all involved in the <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Sea" title="Yellow Sea">Yellow Sea</a> trade, which Silla of Korea dominated. After Silla and Japan reopened renewed hostilities in the late 7th century, most Japanese maritime merchants chose to set sail from <a href="/wiki/Nagasaki_Prefecture" title="Nagasaki Prefecture">Nagasaki</a> towards the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Huai_River" title="Huai River">Huai River</a>, the Yangtze River, and even as far south as the <a href="/wiki/Hangzhou_Bay" title="Hangzhou Bay">Hangzhou Bay</a> in order to avoid Korean ships in the Yellow Sea.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198511-205">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940157-206">[203]</a> In order to sail back to Japan in 838, the Japanese embassy to China procured nine ships and sixty Korean sailors from the Korean wards of Chuzhou and Lianshui cities along the Huai River.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940162-207">[204]</a> It is also known that Chinese trade ships travelling to Japan set sail from the various ports along the coasts of <a href="/wiki/Zhejiang" title="Zhejiang">Zhejiang</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a> provinces.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940155–156-208">[205]</a> The Chinese engaged in large-scale production for overseas export by at least the time of the Tang. This was proven by the discovery of the <a href="/wiki/Belitung_shipwreck" title="Belitung shipwreck">Belitung shipwreck</a>, a silt-preserved shipwrecked Arabian <a href="/wiki/Dhow" title="Dhow">dhow</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gaspar_Strait" title="Gaspar Strait">Gaspar Strait</a> near <a href="/wiki/Belitung" title="Belitung">Belitung</a>, which had 63,000 pieces of Tang ceramics, silver, and gold (including a <a href="/wiki/Changsha" title="Changsha">Changsha</a> bowl inscribed with a date corresponding to 826, roughly confirmed by <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating" title="Radiocarbon dating">radiocarbon dating</a> of <a href="/wiki/Star_anise" class="mw-redirect" title="Star anise">star anise</a> at the wreck).<a href="#cite_note-209">[206]</a> Beginning in 785, the Chinese began to call regularly at <a href="/wiki/Sufala" title="Sufala">Sufala</a> on the East African coast in order to cut out Arab middlemen,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShen1996155-210">[207]</a> with various contemporary Chinese sources giving detailed descriptions of trade in Africa. The official and geographer <a href="/wiki/Jia_Dan" title="Jia Dan">Jia Dan</a> (730–805) wrote of two common sea trade routes in his day: one from the coast of the <a href="/wiki/Bohai_Sea" title="Bohai Sea">Bohai Sea</a> towards Korea and another from Guangzhou through <a href="/wiki/Malacca" title="Malacca">Malacca</a> towards the <a href="/wiki/Nicobar_Islands" title="Nicobar Islands">Nicobar Islands</a>, Sri Lanka and India, the eastern and northern shores of the Arabian Sea to the Euphrates River.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHsu198896-211">[208]</a> In 863, the Chinese author <a href="/wiki/Duan_Chengshi" title="Duan Chengshi">Duan Chengshi</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 863) provided a detailed description of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery" title="History of slavery">slave trade</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivory_trade" title="Ivory trade">ivory trade</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ambergris" title="Ambergris">ambergris</a> trade in a country called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bobali_(Chinese_geography)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bobali (Chinese geography) (page does not exist)">Bobali</a>, which historians suggest was <a href="/wiki/Berbera" title="Berbera">Berbera</a> in Somalia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevathes199438-212">[209]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Fustat" title="Fustat">Fustat</a>, Egypt, the fame of Chinese ceramics there led to an enormous demand for Chinese goods; hence Chinese often travelled there.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShen1996158-213">[210]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200480-214">[211]</a> From this time period, the Arab merchant Shulama once wrote of his admiration for Chinese seafaring <a href="/wiki/Junks" class="mw-redirect" title="Junks">junks</a>, but noted that their draft was too deep for them to enter the Euphrates River, which forced them to ferry passengers and cargo in small boats. Shulama also noted that Chinese ships were often very large, with capacities up to 700 passengers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHsu198896-211">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELiu1991178-215">[212]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_society">Culture and society</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Culture and society">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_art" title="Tang dynasty art">Tang dynasty art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_painting" title="Tang dynasty painting">Tang dynasty painting</a></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1210px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize thumbimage" style="overflow:auto"><a href="/wiki/File:EightySevenCelestials3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Eighty Seven Celestials, draft painting of a fresco by Wu Daozi (c. 685 – c. 758)"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/EightySevenCelestials3.jpg/1200px-EightySevenCelestials3.jpg" decoding="async" width="1200" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/EightySevenCelestials3.jpg/1800px-EightySevenCelestials3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/EightySevenCelestials3.jpg/2400px-EightySevenCelestials3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="400" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:EightySevenCelestials3.jpg" title="File:EightySevenCelestials3.jpg"> </a></div>Eighty Seven Celestials, draft painting of a fresco by <a href="/wiki/Wu_Daozi" title="Wu Daozi">Wu Daozi</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 685 – c. 758)</div></div></div> Both the Sui and Tang dynasties had turned away from the more <a href="/wiki/Feudal" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudal">feudal</a> culture of the preceding Northern Dynasties, in favour of staunch civil <a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200691-11">[10]</a> The governmental system was supported by a large class of Confucian intellectuals selected through either civil service examinations or recommendations. In the Tang period, <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> were commonly practised ideologies that played a large role in people's daily lives. The Tang Chinese enjoyed feasting, drinking, holidays, sports, and all sorts of entertainment, while <a href="/wiki/Chinese_literature" title="Chinese literature">Chinese literature</a> blossomed and was more widely accessible with new <a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a> methods. Rich commoners and nobles who worshipped spirits wanted them to know "how important and how admirable they were", so they "wrote or commissioned their own obituaries" and buried figures along with their bodies to ward off evil spirits.<a href="#cite_note-216">[213]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chang'an">Chang'an</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Chang'an">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prince_Yide%27s_tomb,_towers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg/250px-Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg/330px-Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg/500px-Prince_Yide%27s_tomb%2C_towers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1952" data-file-height="2267" /></a><figcaption>A 706 mural depicting a <a href="/wiki/Chinese_city_wall" title="Chinese city wall">corner tower</a>, most likely one of <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an" title="Chang'an">Chang'an</a>, from the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Prince_Yide" title="Prince Yide">Prince Yide</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 701) – the <a href="/wiki/Qianling_Mausoleum" title="Qianling Mausoleum">Qianling Mausoleum</a></figcaption></figure> Although Chang'an had served as the capital during the earlier Han and Jin dynasties, after subsequent destruction in warfare, it was the Sui dynasty model that comprised the Tang-era capital. The roughly square dimensions of the city had 10 km (6.2 mi) of outer walls running east to west, and more than 8 km (5.0 mi) of outer walls running north to south.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200693-33">[31]</a> The royal palace, the Taiji Palace, stood north of the city's central axis.<a href="#cite_note-217">[214]</a> From the large Mingde Gates mid-center on the main southern wall, a wide city avenue stretched all the way north to the central administrative city, behind which was the Chentian Gate of the royal palace, or Imperial City. Intersecting this were fourteen main streets running east to west, while eleven main streets ran north to south. These main intersecting roads formed 108 rectangular wards with walls and four gates each, each filled with multiple city blocks. The city was made famous for this checkerboard pattern of main roads with walled and gated districts, its layout even mentioned in one of Du Fu's poems.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006103-218">[215]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Heian_period" title="Heian period">Heian period</a>, cities like <a href="/wiki/Heian-ky%C5%8D" title="Heian-kyō">Heian-kyō</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>) were arranged in the checkerboard street in accordance with traditional geomancy, following the Chang'an model. Of Chang'an's 108 wards, two were designated as government-supervised markets, and other space reserved for temples, gardens, ponds, etc.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200692–93-219">[216]</a> Throughout the entire city, there were 111 Buddhist monasteries, 41 Taoist abbeys, 38 family shrines, 2 official temples, 7 churches of foreign religions, 10 city wards with provincial transmission offices, 12 major inns, and 6 graveyards. Some city wards were literally filled with open public playing fields or the backyards of lavish mansions for playing horse polo and <a href="/wiki/Cuju" title="Cuju">cuju</a> (Chinese soccer).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002xiv–xviii-220">[217]</a> In 662, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozong of Tang">Emperor Gaozong</a> moved the imperial court to the <a href="/wiki/Daming_Palace" title="Daming Palace">Daming Palace</a>, which became the political center of the empire and served as the royal residence of the Tang emperors for more than 220 years.<a href="#cite_note-221">[218]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg/300px-Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg/450px-Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg/600px-Chang%27an_of_Tang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="983" data-file-height="728" /></a><figcaption>Map of Chang'an during the Tang[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">image reference needed</a>]</figcaption></figure> The Tang capital was the largest city in the world at its time, with the population of its wards and suburban countryside reaching two million inhabitants.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200693-33">[31]</a> The Tang capital was very cosmopolitan, with ethnicities of <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>, Central Asia, Japan, Korea, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, Tibet, India, and many other places living within. Naturally, with this plethora of different ethnicities living in Chang'an, there were also many different practised religions, such as <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nestorianism" title="Nestorianism">Nestorian Christianity</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a>, among others.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200679-222">[219]</a> With the open access to China that the <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a> to the west facilitated, many foreign settlers were able to move east to China, while the city of Chang'an itself had about 25,000 foreigners living within.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006112-181">[178]</a> Exotic green-eyed, blond-haired <a href="/wiki/Tocharians" title="Tocharians">Tocharian</a> ladies serving wine in <a href="/wiki/Agate" title="Agate">agate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amber" title="Amber">amber</a> cups, singing, and dancing at taverns attracted customers. If a foreigner in China pursued a Chinese woman for marriage, he was required to stay in China and was unable to take his bride back to his homeland, as stated in a law passed in 628 to protect women from temporary marriages with foreign envoys. Several laws enforcing segregation of foreigners from Chinese were passed during the Tang. In 779, the Tang issued an edict which forced <a href="/wiki/Uyghurs" title="Uyghurs">Uyghurs</a> in the capital, Chang'an, to wear their ethnic dress, stopped them from marrying Chinese females, and banned them from passing off as Chinese.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198521–22,_25-223">[220]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jingyun_Bell.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jingyun_Bell.JPG/220px-Jingyun_Bell.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jingyun_Bell.JPG/330px-Jingyun_Bell.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jingyun_Bell.JPG/440px-Jingyun_Bell.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1704" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>The bronze Jingyun Bell cast in 711, 247 cm (97 in) high and weighing 6,500 kg (14,300 lb), now in the Xi'an Bell Tower</figcaption></figure> Chang'an was the center of the central government, the home of the imperial family, and was filled with splendor and wealth. However, incidentally it was not the economic hub during the Tang dynasty. The city of <a href="/wiki/Yangzhou" title="Yangzhou">Yangzhou</a> along the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canal_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Canal of China">Grand Canal</a> and close to the <a href="/wiki/Yangtze" title="Yangtze">Yangtze</a> was the greatest economic center during the Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200246-196">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198517–18-224">[221]</a> Yangzhou was the headquarters for the Tang government's salt monopoly, and was the greatest industrial center of China. It acted as a midpoint in shipping of foreign goods to be distributed to the major cities of the north.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200246-196">[193]</a> Much like the seaport of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> in the south, Yangzhou had thousands of foreign traders from across Asia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198517–18-224">[221]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReischauer1940143–144-225">[222]</a> There was also the secondary capital city of <a href="/wiki/Luoyang" title="Luoyang">Luoyang</a>, which was the favoured capital of the two by <a href="/wiki/Empress_Wu" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Wu">Empress Wu</a>. In 691, she had more than 100,000 families from the region around Chang'an move to Luoyang. With a population of about a million, Luoyang became the second largest city in the empire, and with its closeness to the Luo River it benefited from southern agricultural fertility and trade traffic of the Grand Canal. However, the Tang court eventually demoted its capital status and did not visit Luoyang after 743, when Chang'an's problem of acquiring adequate supplies and stores for the year was solved.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200246-196">[193]</a> As early as 736, granaries were built at critical points along the route from Yangzhou to Chang'an, which eliminated shipment delays, spoilage, and pilfering. An artificial lake used as a transshipment pool was dredged east of Chang'an in 743, where curious northerners could finally see the array of boats found in southern China, delivering tax and tribute items to the imperial court.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198518–20-226">[223]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Literature">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_literature" title="Chinese literature">Chinese literature</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tang_poetry" title="Tang poetry">Tang poetry</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion,_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/400px-%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/600px-%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/800px-%22Lan-ting_Xu%22_Preface_to_the_Poems_Composed_at_the_Orchid_Pavilion%2C_copy_by_an_artist_in_the_Tang_dynasty_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4673" data-file-height="1560" /></a><figcaption>A Tang-era copy of the preface to the <a href="/wiki/Lantingji_Xu" title="Lantingji Xu">Lantingji Xu</a> poems composed at the <a href="/wiki/Orchid_Pavilion_Gathering" title="Orchid Pavilion Gathering">Orchid Pavilion Gathering</a>, originally attributed to <a href="/wiki/Wang_Xizhi" title="Wang Xizhi">Wang Xizhi</a> (303–361) of the <a href="/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(265-420)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jin dynasty (265-420)">Jin dynasty</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg/330px-LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg/450px-LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/LiBai-Kalligraphie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="472" data-file-height="320" /></a><figcaption>A poem by <a href="/wiki/Li_Bai" title="Li Bai">Li Bai</a> (701–762), the only surviving example of Li Bai's <a href="/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy" title="Chinese calligraphy">calligraphy</a>, housed in the <a href="/wiki/Palace_Museum" title="Palace Museum">Palace Museum</a> in Beijing</figcaption></figure> The Tang dynasty was a <a href="/wiki/Golden_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden age">golden age</a> of Chinese literature and art. Over 48,900 poems penned during the Tang, representing over 2,200 authors, have survived to the present day.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999120-227">[224]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarper200533-228">[225]</a> Skill in the composition of poetry became a required study for those wishing to pass imperial examinations,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002259-229">[226]</a> while poetry was also heavily competitive; poetry contests among guests at banquets and courtiers were common.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002137-230">[227]</a> Poetry styles that were popular in the Tang included <a href="/wiki/Gushi_(poetry)" title="Gushi (poetry)">gushi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jintishi" class="mw-redirect" title="Jintishi">jintishi</a>, with the poet <a href="/wiki/Li_Bai" title="Li Bai">Li Bai</a> (701–762) famous for the former style, and poets like <a href="/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)">Wang Wei</a> (701–761) and <a href="/wiki/Cui_Hao_(poet)" title="Cui Hao (poet)">Cui Hao</a> (704–754) famous for their use of the latter. Jintishi poetry, or regulated verse, is in the form of eight-line stanzas or seven <a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">characters</a> per line with a fixed pattern of tones that required the second and third couplets to be antithetical (although the <a href="/wiki/Antithesis" title="Antithesis">antithesis</a> is often lost in translation to other languages).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006102-231">[228]</a> Tang poems remained popular and great emulation of Tang era poetry began in the Song dynasty; in that period, Yan Yu (嚴羽; <abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 1194–1245) was the first to confer the poetry of the High Tang (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 713 – 766) with "canonical status within the classical poetic tradition". Yan Yu reserved the position of highest esteem among all Tang poets for <a href="/wiki/Du_Fu" title="Du Fu">Du Fu</a> (712–770), who was not viewed as such in his own era, and was branded by his peers as an anti-traditional rebel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYu199875–76-232">[229]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Classical_Prose_Movement" title="Classical Prose Movement">Classical Prose Movement</a> was spurred in large part by the writings of Tang authors <a href="/wiki/Liu_Zongyuan" title="Liu Zongyuan">Liu Zongyuan</a> (773–819) and <a href="/wiki/Han_Yu" title="Han Yu">Han Yu</a> (768–824). This new prose style broke away from the poetry tradition of piantiwen (駢體文; 'parallel prose') style begun in the Han dynasty. Although writers of the Classical Prose Movement imitated piantiwen, they criticised it for its often vague content and lack of colloquial language, focusing more on clarity and precision to make their writing more direct.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006106-233">[230]</a> This guwen (archaic prose) style can be traced back to Han Yu, and would become largely associated with orthodox <a href="/wiki/Neo-Confucianism" title="Neo-Confucianism">Neo-Confucianism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHuters198752-234">[231]</a> Short story fiction and tales were also popular during the Tang, one of the more famous ones being Yingying's Biography by <a href="/wiki/Yuan_Zhen" title="Yuan Zhen">Yuan Zhen</a> (779–831), which was widely circulated in his own time and by the <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a> (1279–1368) became the basis for <a href="/wiki/Chinese_opera" title="Chinese opera">Chinese opera</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006104–105-235">[232]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWong197997-236">[233]</a> Timothy C. Wong places this story within the wider context of Tang love tales, which often share the plot designs of quick passion, inescapable societal pressure leading to the abandonment of romance, followed by a period of melancholy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWong197995–100-237">[234]</a> Wong states that this scheme lacks the undying vows and total self-commitment to love found in Western romances such as <a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a>, but that underlying traditional Chinese values of indivisibility of self from one's environment, including from society) served to create the necessary fictional device of romantic tension.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWong197998–99-238">[235]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg/250px-Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg/330px-Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg/360px-Li_Shiming_Fountain_Memory.jpg 2x" data-file-width="377" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Calligraphy by Emperor Taizong on a Tang stele</figcaption></figure> Large encyclopaedias were published during the Tang: the <a href="/wiki/Yiwen_Leiju" title="Yiwen Leiju">Yiwen Leiju</a> was compiled in 624 under chief editor <a href="/wiki/Ouyang_Xun" title="Ouyang Xun">Ouyang Xun</a> (557–641), <a href="/wiki/Linghu_Defen" title="Linghu Defen">Linghu Defen</a> (582–666) and <a href="/wiki/Chen_Shuda" title="Chen Shuda">Chen Shuda</a> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 635). By 729, the team led by scholar <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Siddha" title="Gautama Siddha">Gautama Siddha</a> (<abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 8th century), an ethnic Indian born in Chang'an, had finished compiling the <a href="/wiki/Treatise_on_Astrology_of_the_Kaiyuan_Era" title="Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era">Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era</a>, an astrological encyclopaedia. <a href="/wiki/History_of_geography#China" title="History of geography">Chinese geographers</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Jia_Dan" title="Jia Dan">Jia Dan</a>, wrote accurate descriptions of places far beyond Tang territory. In his work written between 785 and 805, Jia described the sea route going into the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a>, and that the medieval <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a> had erected 'ornamental pillars' in the sea that acted as lighthouse beacons for ships that might go astray.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986c661-239">[236]</a> Arabic authors writing a century after Jia, such as <a href="/wiki/Al-Masudi" title="Al-Masudi">al-Masudi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al-Maqdisi" title="Al-Maqdisi">al-Maqdisi</a>, also mentioned these structures in their accounts, confirming Jia's reports. The Tang diplomat <a href="/wiki/Wang_Xuance" title="Wang Xuance">Wang Xuance</a> travelled to <a href="/wiki/Magadha_(Mahajanapada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magadha (Mahajanapada)">Magadha</a>, in present-day northeast India, during the 7th century.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen20039,_22–24-240">[237]</a> Afterwards, he wrote the Zhang Tianzhu Guotu (Illustrated Accounts of Central India), a book which contained a large body of geographical information.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986a511-241">[238]</a> Many histories of previous dynasties were compiled between 636 and 659 by court officials during and shortly after the reign of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Taizong of Tang">Emperor Taizong of Tang</a>. These included the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Liang" title="Book of Liang">Book of Liang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Chen" title="Book of Chen">Book of Chen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Northern_Qi" title="Book of Northern Qi">Book of Northern Qi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Zhou" title="Book of Zhou">Book of Zhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Sui" title="Book of Sui">Book of Sui</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Jin" title="Book of Jin">Book of Jin</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_Northern_Dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Northern Dynasties">History of Northern Dynasties</a> and the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Southern_Dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Southern Dynasties">History of Southern Dynasties</a>. Although not included in the official <a href="/wiki/Twenty-Four_Histories" title="Twenty-Four Histories">Twenty-Four Histories</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tongdian" title="Tongdian">Tongdian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tang_Huiyao" title="Tang Huiyao">Tang Huiyao</a> were nonetheless valuable written historical works of the Tang period. The <a href="/wiki/Shitong" title="Shitong">Shitong</a> written by <a href="/wiki/Liu_Zhiji" title="Liu Zhiji">Liu Zhiji</a> in 710, was a meta-history that surveyed the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_historiography" title="Chinese historiography">Chinese historiography</a> to date. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Tang_Records_on_the_Western_Regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Tang Records on the Western Regions">Great Tang Records on the Western Regions</a>, compiled by <a href="/wiki/Bianji" title="Bianji">Bianji</a>, recounted the journey of <a href="/wiki/Xuanzang" title="Xuanzang">Xuanzang</a>, the Tang era's most renowned <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_monk" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist monk">Buddhist monk</a>. Other important literature included <a href="/wiki/Duan_Chengshi" title="Duan Chengshi">Duan Chengshi</a>'s (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 863) <a href="/wiki/Miscellaneous_Morsels_from_Youyang" title="Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang">Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang</a>, an entertaining collection of foreign legends and hearsay, reports on natural phenomena, short anecdotes, mythical and mundane tales, as well as notes on various subjects. The exact literary category or classification that Duan's large informal narrative would fit into is still debated among scholars and historians.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReed2003121-242">[239]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_and_philosophy">Religion and philosophy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Religion and philosophy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_China" title="Religion in China">Religion in China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chinese_philosophy" title="Chinese philosophy">Chinese philosophy</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Great_Anti-Buddhist_Persecution" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution">Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TangBodhisattva.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/TangBodhisattva.JPG/180px-TangBodhisattva.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/TangBodhisattva.JPG/270px-TangBodhisattva.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/TangBodhisattva.JPG/360px-TangBodhisattva.JPG 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="743" /></a><figcaption>A Tang dynasty sculpture of a <a href="/wiki/Bodhisattva" title="Bodhisattva">Bodhisattva</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg/180px-Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg/270px-Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg/360px-Anonymous-Describing_the_Doctrine_Under_a_Tree.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2204" data-file-height="3027" /></a><figcaption>An 8th-century silk wall scroll from <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a>, showing the <a href="/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism" title="Pure Land Buddhism">paradise of Amitabha</a></figcaption></figure> Since ancient times, some Chinese had believed in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion" title="Chinese folk religion">folk religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> that incorporated many deities. Practitioners believed the <a href="/wiki/Tao" title="Tao">Tao</a> and the afterlife was a reality parallel to the living world, complete with its own bureaucracy and afterlife currency needed by dead ancestors. Funerary practices included providing the deceased with everything they might need in the afterlife, including animals, servants, entertainers, hunters, homes, and officials. This ideal is reflected in Tang art.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews201026-243">[240]</a> This is also reflected in many short stories written in the Tang about people accidentally winding up in the realm of the dead, only to come back and report their experiences.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitfield2004333-244">[241]</a> <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, originating in India around the time of <a href="/wiki/Confucius" title="Confucius">Confucius</a>, continued its influence during the Tang period and was accepted by some members of imperial family, becoming thoroughly sinicised and a permanent part of Chinese traditional culture. In an age before <a href="/wiki/Neo-Confucianism" title="Neo-Confucianism">Neo-Confucianism</a> and figures such as <a href="/wiki/Zhu_Xi" title="Zhu Xi">Zhu Xi</a> (1130–1200), Buddhism had begun to flourish in China during the <a href="/wiki/Northern_and_Southern_dynasties" title="Northern and Southern dynasties">Northern and Southern dynasties</a>, and became the dominant ideology during the prosperous Tang. Buddhist monasteries played an integral role in Chinese society, offering lodging for travellers in remote areas, schools for children throughout the country, and a place for urban literati to stage social events and gatherings such as going-away parties. Buddhist monasteries were also engaged in the economy, since their land property and serfs gave them enough revenues to set up mills, oil presses, and other enterprises.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEberhard2005181-245">[242]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200486-246">[243]</a> Although the monasteries retained 'serfs', these monastery dependents could actually own property and employ others to help them in their work, including their own slaves.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999121–122,_126-247">[244]</a> The prominent status of Buddhism in Chinese culture began to decline as the dynasty and central government declined as well during the late 8th century to 9th century. Buddhist convents and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Buddhist_temples" title="List of Buddhist temples">temples</a> that were exempt from state taxes beforehand were targeted by the state for taxation. In 845, Emperor Wuzong finally shut down 4,600 Buddhist monasteries along with 40,000 temples and shrines, forcing 260,000 Buddhist monks and nuns to return to secular] life;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200696-248">[245]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200686-249">[246]</a> this episode would later be dubbed one of the <a href="/wiki/Four_Buddhist_Persecutions_in_China" title="Four Buddhist Persecutions in China">Four Buddhist Persecutions in China</a>. Although the ban was lifted just a few years after, Buddhism never regained its once dominant status in Chinese culture.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200696-248">[245]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200686-249">[246]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999124-250">[247]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarper200534-251">[248]</a> This situation also came about through a revival of interest in native Chinese philosophies such as Confucianism and Taoism. <a href="/wiki/Han_Yu" title="Han Yu">Han Yu</a> (786–824)—who <a href="/wiki/Arthur_F._Wright" title="Arthur F. Wright">Arthur F. Wright</a> stated was a "brilliant <a href="/wiki/Polemicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Polemicist">polemicist</a> and ardent <a href="/wiki/Xenophobe" class="mw-redirect" title="Xenophobe">xenophobe</a>"—was one of the first men of the Tang to denounce Buddhism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWright195988-252">[249]</a> Although his contemporaries found him crude and obnoxious, he foreshadowed the later persecution of Buddhism in the Tang, as well as the revival of Confucian theory with the rise of Neo-Confucianism of the Song dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWright195988-252">[249]</a> Nonetheless, <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A1n_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Chán Buddhism">Chán Buddhism</a> gained popularity among the educated elite.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200696-248">[245]</a> There were also many famous Chan monks from the Tang era, such as <a href="/wiki/Mazu_Daoyi" title="Mazu Daoyi">Mazu Daoyi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baizhang" class="mw-redirect" title="Baizhang">Baizhang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Huangbo_Xiyun" title="Huangbo Xiyun">Huangbo Xiyun</a>. The sect of <a href="/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism" title="Pure Land Buddhism">Pure Land Buddhism</a> initiated by the Chinese monk <a href="/wiki/Huiyuan_(Buddhist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Huiyuan (Buddhist)">Huiyuan</a> (334–416) was also just as popular as Chan Buddhism during the Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999123-253">[250]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg/250px-Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg/330px-Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg/500px-Wutai_Foguang_Si_2013.08.28_11-20-48.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5472" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>A timber hall built in 857,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESteinhardt2004228–229-254">[251]</a> located at the Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Foguang_Temple" title="Foguang Temple">Foguang Temple</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Wutai" title="Mount Wutai">Mount Wutai</a>, Shanxi</figcaption></figure> Rivaling Buddhism was Taoism, a native Chinese philosophical and religious belief system that found its roots in the <a href="/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" title="Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)" title="Zhuangzi (book)">Zhuangzi</a>. The ruling Li family of the Tang dynasty actually claimed descent from Laozi, traditionally credited as the author of the Tao Te Ching.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200260-255">[252]</a> On numerous occasions where Tang princes would become crown prince or Tang princesses taking vows as Taoist priestesses, their lavish former mansions would be converted into Taoist <a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbeys</a> and places of worship.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200260-255">[252]</a> Many Taoists were associated with <a href="/wiki/Alchemy" title="Alchemy">alchemy</a> in their pursuits to find an <a href="/wiki/Elixir_of_immortality" class="mw-redirect" title="Elixir of immortality">elixir of immortality</a> and a means to create gold from concocted mixtures of many other elements. Although they never achieved their goals in either of these futile pursuits, they did contribute to the discovery of new metal alloys, porcelain products, and new dyes. The historian Joseph Needham labelled the work of the Taoist alchemists as "protoscience rather than pseudoscience".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200681-256">[253]</a> However, the close connection between Taoism and alchemy, which some <a href="/wiki/Sinologists" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinologists">sinologists</a> have asserted, is refuted by <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Sivin" title="Nathan Sivin">Nathan Sivin</a>, who states that alchemy was just as prominent (if not more so) in the secular sphere and practised more often by laymen.<a href="#cite_note-257">[254]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:254px;max-width:254px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader"><a href="/wiki/Nestorian_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Nestorian Christianity">Nestorian Christianity</a></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_(detail).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail%29.jpg/250px-Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="374" data-file-height="126" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_(detail-L).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg/250px-Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg/375px-Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg/500px-Sutras_on_the_Origin_of_Origins_of_Ta-ch%E2%80%98in_Luminous_Religion_%28detail-L%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1796" data-file-height="692" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Details of the rubbing of the <a href="/wiki/Nestorian_pillar_of_Luoyang" title="Nestorian pillar of Luoyang">Nestorian pillar of Luoyang</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg/250px-Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg/375px-Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg/500px-Church_of_the_East_in_the_Middle_Ages.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="934" data-file-height="645" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Church of the East</a>'s greatest geographical extent during the Middle Ages</div></div></div></div></div> The Tang dynasty also officially recognised various foreign religions. The <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Assyrian Church of the East</a>, otherwise known as the <a href="/wiki/Nestorian_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Nestorian Church">Nestorian Church</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East_in_China" title="Church of the East in China">Church of the East in China</a>, was given recognition by the Tang court. In 781, the <a href="/wiki/Nestorian_Stele" class="mw-redirect" title="Nestorian Stele">Nestorian Stele</a> was created in order to honour the achievements of their community in China. A Christian monastery was established in Shaanxi province where the <a href="/wiki/Daqin_Pagoda" title="Daqin Pagoda">Daqin Pagoda</a> still stands, and inside the pagoda there is Christian-themed artwork. Although the religion largely died out after the Tang, it was revived in China following the <a href="/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_the_Song_dynasty" title="Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty">Mongol invasions</a> of the 13th century.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGernet1962215-258">[255]</a> Although the <a href="/wiki/Sogdia" title="Sogdia">Sogdians</a> had been responsible for transmitting Buddhism to China from India during the 2nd–4th centuries, soon afterwards they largely converted to <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a> due to their links to <a href="/wiki/Sasanian" class="mw-redirect" title="Sasanian">Sasanian</a> Persia. Sogdian merchants and their families living in cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, and Xiangyang usually built a Zoroastrian temple once their local communities grew larger than 100 households.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHoward2012[httpsbooksgooglecombooksid6QPWXrCCzBIClpgPP1pgPA134_134]-259">[256]</a> Sogdians were also responsible for spreading <a href="/wiki/Manicheism" class="mw-redirect" title="Manicheism">Manicheism</a> in China and the <a href="/wiki/Uyghur_Khaganate" title="Uyghur Khaganate">Uyghur Khaganate</a>. The Uyghurs built the first Manichean monastery in China in 768; in 843, the Tang government ordered that the property of all Manichean monasteries be confiscated in response to the outbreak of war with the Uyghurs. With the blanket ban on foreign religions two years later, Manicheism was driven underground and never flourished in China again.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELiu2001168–169-260">[257]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leisure">Leisure</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Leisure">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:392px;max-width:392px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:149px;max-width:149px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:122px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg/147px-Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg" decoding="async" width="147" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg/221px-Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg/294px-Palefrenier_menant_deux_chevaux_par_Han_Gan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1959" data-file-height="1636" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">A Man Herding Horses, by <a href="/wiki/Han_Gan" title="Han Gan">Han Gan</a> (706–783), a court artist under Xuanzong</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:239px;max-width:239px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:122px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg/237px-Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg" decoding="async" width="237" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg/356px-Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg/474px-Spring_Outing_of_the_Tang_Court.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1006" data-file-height="521" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Spring Outing of the Tang Court, by <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Xuan" title="Zhang Xuan">Zhang Xuan</a> (713–755)</div></div></div></div></div> More than earlier periods, the Tang era was renowned for the time reserved for leisure activities, especially among the upper classes. Many outdoor sports and activities were enjoyed during the Tang, including <a href="/wiki/Archery" title="Archery">archery</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200239,_170-261">[258]</a> hunting,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200222,_32-262">[259]</a> horse <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200216,_90-263">[260]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cuju" title="Cuju">cuju</a> (soccer), <a href="/wiki/Cockfighting" title="Cockfighting">cockfighting</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002173–174-264">[261]</a> and even <a href="/wiki/Tug_of_war" title="Tug of war">tug of war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002149–152-265">[262]</a> Government officials were granted vacations during their tenure in office. Officials were granted 30 days off every three years to visit their parents if they lived 1,000 mi (1,600 km) away, or 15 days off if the parents lived more than 167 mi (269 km) away (travel time not included). Officials were granted nine days of vacation time for weddings of a son or daughter, and either five, three, or one days/day off for the <a href="/wiki/Nuptial" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuptial">nuptials</a> of close relatives (travel time not included). Officials also received a total of three days off for their son's capping initiation rite into manhood, and one day off for the ceremony of initiation rite of a close relative's son.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002149-266">[263]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG/250px-Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG/330px-Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG/500px-Tang_Dynasty-Polo_Game_Relief_Block.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="823" /></a><figcaption>A Tang <a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">sancai</a>-glazed carved relief showing horseback riders playing <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_holidays" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional Chinese holidays">Traditional Chinese holidays</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year">Chinese New Year</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lantern_Festival" title="Lantern Festival">Lantern Festival</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cold_Food_Festival" title="Cold Food Festival">Cold Food Festival</a>, and others were universal holidays. In Chang'an, there was always lively celebration, especially for the <a href="/wiki/Lantern_Festival" title="Lantern Festival">Lantern Festival</a> since the city's nighttime curfew was lifted by the government for three days straight. Between 628 and 758, the imperial throne bestowed a total of sixty-nine grand carnivals nationwide, granted by the emperor in the case of special circumstances such as important military victories, abundant harvests after a long drought or famine, the granting of amnesties, or the instalment of a new crown prince.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002150–155-267">[264]</a> For special celebration in the Tang era, lavish and gargantuan-sized feasts were sometimes prepared, as the imperial court had staffed agencies to prepare the meals. This included a prepared feast for 1,100 elders of Chang'an in 664, a feast held for 3,500 officers of the Divine Strategy Army in 768, and one in 826 for 1,200 members of the imperial family and women of the palace.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002132-268">[265]</a> Alcohol consumption was a prominent facet of Chinese culture; people during the Tang drank for nearly every social event. An 8th-century court official allegedly had a serpent-shaped structure called the 'ale grotto' built on the ground floor using a total of 50,000 bricks, which featured bowls from which each of his friends could drink.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002142–147-269">[266]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Status_in_clothing">Status in clothing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Status in clothing">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tang-4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tang-4.jpg/180px-Tang-4.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tang-4.jpg/270px-Tang-4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tang-4.jpg/360px-Tang-4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1847" data-file-height="2751" /></a><figcaption>A late Tang or early <a href="/wiki/Five_Dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="Five Dynasties">Five Dynasties</a> era <a href="/wiki/Silk_painting" title="Silk painting">silk painting</a> on a banner depicting <a href="/wiki/Guanyin" title="Guanyin">Guanyin</a> and a female attendant in silk robes, from the <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang" title="Dunhuang">Dunhuang</a> caves – <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></figcaption></figure> In general, garments were made from silk, wool, or linen depending on your social status and what you could afford. Furthermore, there were laws that specified what kinds of clothing could be worn by whom. The color of the clothing also indicated rank. During this period, China's power, culture, economy, and influence were thriving. As a result, women could afford to wear loose-fitting, wide-sleeved garments. Even lower-class women's robes had sleeves four to five feet wide.<a href="#cite_note-270">[267]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Position_of_women">Position of women</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Position of women">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Women_in_ancient_and_imperial_China#Tang_dynasty" title="Women in ancient and imperial China">Women in ancient and imperial China § Tang dynasty</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:394px;max-width:394px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Chou_Fang_004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Chou_Fang_004.jpg/250px-Chou_Fang_004.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Chou_Fang_004.jpg/375px-Chou_Fang_004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Chou_Fang_004.jpg/500px-Chou_Fang_004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="460" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Beauties Wearing Flowers by <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Fang_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Zhou Fang (Tang dynasty)">Zhou Fang</a>, 8th century</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:138px;max-width:138px"><div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg/136px-Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg/204px-Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg/272px-Joueuse_de_polo_Tang_29102.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1266" data-file-height="1701" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption">Woman playing polo, 8th century</div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Li_Xian%27s_tomb,_palace_ladies.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg/250px-Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg/330px-Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg/500px-Li_Xian%27s_tomb%2C_palace_ladies.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2887" data-file-height="3065" /></a><figcaption>Palace ladies in a garden from a mural of Prince <a href="/wiki/Li_Xian_(prince)" class="mw-redirect" title="Li Xian (prince)">Li Xian</a>'s tomb in the <a href="/wiki/Qianling_Mausoleum" title="Qianling Mausoleum">Qianling Mausoleum</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a> was later buried in 706</figcaption></figure> Concepts of women's social rights and social status during the Tang era were notably liberal-minded for the period. However, this was largely reserved for urban women of elite status, as men and women in the rural countryside laboured hard in their different set of tasks; with wives and daughters responsible for more domestic tasks of weaving textiles and rearing of <a href="/wiki/Silk_worm" class="mw-redirect" title="Silk worm">silk worms</a>, while men tended to farming in the fields.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200232-116">[113]</a> There were many women in the Tang era who gained access to religious authority by taking vows as Taoist priestesses.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200260-255">[252]</a> In Chang'an, ordinary courtesans inhabited the <a href="/wiki/Chang%27an#East_Central_Chang'an" title="Chang'an">North Hamlet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlanchard200179-271">[268]</a> They were generally knowledgeable in the rules of drinking games, and received particular training in table manners.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200264–66-272">[269]</a> While renowned for their politeness, courtesans were reputed to dominate conversations among elite men, and as being unafraid to openly criticise the rudeness of prominent male guests, including for talking too much, too loudly, or for boasting of their accomplishments.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn200266-273">[270]</a> Courtesans were sometimes beaten by their <a href="/wiki/Procuring_(prostitution)" title="Procuring (prostitution)">procuring madames</a>.<a href="#cite_note-274">[271]</a> <a href="/wiki/G%C4%93j%C3%AC" class="mw-redirect" title="Gējì">Gējìs</a>, or professional singing courtesans, were culturally prominent, and joined talent agencies called <a href="/wiki/Jiaofang" title="Jiaofang">jiaofang</a>. The emperor selected particularly talented women from the outer jiaofang to form the spring court, who were supplemented by courtesans from other troupes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBossler201271–99-275">[272]</a> During the Tang, singing courtesans who were also talented in the poetry.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlanchard2001119-276">[273]</a> In addition to singing, some courtesans composed their own songs, and even popularised a new form of lyrical verse that incorporated quotations of famous historical figures.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999120-227">[224]</a> It was fashionable for women to have full figures; men enjoyed the presence of assertive, active women. The foreign horse-riding sport of <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a> from Persia became a wildly popular trend among the Chinese elite, and women often played the sport (as glazed <a href="/wiki/Earthenware" title="Earthenware">earthenware</a> figurines from the time period portray).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999114–115-277">[274]</a> The preferred hairstyle for women was to bunch their hair up like "an elaborate edifice above the forehead",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGernet1962165–166-278">[275]</a> while affluent ladies wore extravagant head ornaments, combs, pearl necklaces, face powders, and perfumes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGernet1962165-279">[276]</a> A 671 law attempted to force women to wear hats with veils again in order to promote decency, but these laws were ignored as some women started wearing caps and even no hats at all, as well as men's riding clothes and boots, and tight-sleeved bodices.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer198528–29-280">[277]</a> There were some prominent court women after the era of <a href="/wiki/Empress_Wu" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Wu">Empress Wu</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Yang_Guifei" title="Yang Guifei">Yang Guifei</a> (719–756), who had Emperor Xuanzong appoint many of her relatives and cronies to important ministerial and martial positions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais200699-52">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Cuisine">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chajing.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Chajing.jpeg/220px-Chajing.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Chajing.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="234" data-file-height="356" /></a><figcaption>A page of <a href="/wiki/The_Classic_of_Tea" title="The Classic of Tea">The Classic of Tea</a> by Tang era author <a href="/wiki/Lu_Yu" title="Lu Yu">Lu Yu</a></figcaption></figure> During the earlier <a href="/wiki/Northern_and_Southern_dynasties" title="Northern and Southern dynasties">Northern and Southern dynasties</a> (420–589), and perhaps even earlier, the drinking of tea (<a href="/wiki/Camellia_sinensis" title="Camellia sinensis">Camellia sinensis</a>) became popular in southern China. Tea was viewed then as a beverage of tasteful pleasure and with pharmacological purpose as well.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999120-227">[224]</a> During the Tang dynasty, tea became synonymous with everything sophisticated in society. The poet <a href="/wiki/Lu_Tong" title="Lu Tong">Lu Tong</a> (790–835) devoted most of his poetry to his love of tea. The 8th-century author <a href="/wiki/Lu_Yu" title="Lu Yu">Lu Yu</a>, known as the Sage of Tea, wrote a treatise on the art of drinking tea called <a href="/wiki/The_Classic_of_Tea" title="The Classic of Tea">The Classic of Tea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey199995-281">[278]</a> Although wrapping paper had been used in China since the 2nd century BC, during the Tang it was used as folded and sewn square bags to hold and preserve the flavor of tea leaves. This followed many other uses for paper such as the first recorded use of toilet paper in 589 by the scholar-official <a href="/wiki/Yan_Zhitui" title="Yan Zhitui">Yan Zhitui</a> (531–591), confirmed in 851 by an Arab traveller who remarked that the Tang lacked cleanliness because they relied on toilet paper instead of washing themselves with water.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986d122–123-282">[279]</a> In ancient times, the Chinese had outlined the five most basic foodstuffs known as the five grains: <a href="/wiki/Sesamum" title="Sesamum">sesamum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legume" title="Legume">legumes</a>, wheat, <a href="/wiki/Panicle" title="Panicle">panicled</a> <a href="/wiki/Millet" title="Millet">millet</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Glutinous" class="mw-redirect" title="Glutinous">glutinous</a> millet. The <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a> encyclopedist <a href="/wiki/Song_Yingxing" title="Song Yingxing">Song Yingxing</a> noted that rice was not counted among the five grains from the time of the legendary and deified Chinese sage <a href="/wiki/Shennong" title="Shennong">Shennong</a> (the existence of whom Yingxing wrote was "an uncertain matter") into the 2nd millennium BC, because the properly wet and humid climate in southern China for growing rice was not yet fully settled or cultivated by the Chinese.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESong19663–4-283">[280]</a> Song Yingxing also noted that in the Ming dynasty, seven tenths of civilians' food was rice. During the Tang dynasty rice was not only the most important staple in southern China, but had also become popular in the north where central authority resided.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang_Saishi200318-284">[281]</a> During the Tang dynasty, wheat replaced the position of millet and became the main staple crop. As a consequence, wheat cake shared a considerable amount in the staple of Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang_Saishi20031-285">[282]</a> There were four main kinds of cake: steamed cake, boiled cake, pancake, and Hu cake. Steamed cake was consumed commonly by both civilians and aristocrats. Like <a href="/wiki/Rougamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Rougamo">rougamo</a> in modern Chinese cuisine, steamed cake was usually stuffed with meat and vegetables. Shops and packmen regularly sold inexpensive steamed cake on the streets of Chang’an.<a href="#cite_note-Li1999-286">[283]</a> Boiled cake was the staple of the Northern Dynasties, and it kept its popularity in the Tang dynasty. It included a wide variety of dishes similar to modern <a href="/wiki/Wonton" title="Wonton">wonton</a>, noodles, and many other kinds of food that soak wheat in water. While aristocrats favoured wonton, civilians usually consumed noodles and noodle slice soup that were easier to produce.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang_Saishi20036-287">[284]</a> Pancakes was rare in China before the Tang, when it gained popularity.<a href="#cite_note-288">[285]</a> Food shops in Tang cities such as Chang'an commonly sold both pancakes and <a href="/wiki/Dumpling" title="Dumpling">dumplings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Li1999-286">[283]</a> Hu cake was extremely popular during the Tang.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWang_Saishi20034-289">[286]</a> Hu cake was toasted in the oven, covered with <a href="/wiki/Sesame_seed" class="mw-redirect" title="Sesame seed">sesame seeds</a>, and served at taverns, inns and shops. Japanese Buddhist monk Ennin observed that Hu cake was popular among all of China's civilians.<a href="#cite_note-290">[287]</a> During the Tang, the many common foodstuffs and cooking ingredients in addition to those already listed were barley, garlic, salt, turnips, soybeans, pears, apricots, peaches, apples, pomegranates, jujubes, rhubarb, hazelnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, walnuts, yams, taro, etc. The various meats that were consumed included pork, chicken, <a href="/wiki/Lamb_and_mutton" title="Lamb and mutton">lamb</a> (especially preferred in the north), <a href="/wiki/Sea_otter" title="Sea otter">sea otter</a>, bear (which was hard to catch, but there were recipes for steamed, boiled, and marinated bear), and even <a href="/wiki/Bactrian_camel" title="Bactrian camel">Bactrian camels</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002120-291">[288]</a> In the south along the coast meat from seafood was by default the most common, as the Chinese enjoyed eating cooked <a href="/wiki/Jellyfish" title="Jellyfish">jellyfish</a> with <a href="/wiki/Cinnamon" title="Cinnamon">cinnamon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sichuan_pepper" title="Sichuan pepper">Sichuan pepper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardamom" title="Cardamom">cardamom</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ginger" title="Ginger">ginger</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Oyster" title="Oyster">oysters</a> with wine, fried <a href="/wiki/Squid" title="Squid">squid</a> with ginger and vinegar, <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_crab" title="Horseshoe crab">horseshoe crabs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Portunus" title="Portunus">red swimming crabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shrimp" title="Shrimp">shrimp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pufferfish" class="mw-redirect" title="Pufferfish">pufferfish</a>, which the Chinese called "river piglet".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002121-292">[289]</a> From the trade overseas and over land, the Chinese acquired peaches from <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a>, date palms, pistachios, and figs from Persia, <a href="/wiki/Pine_nut" title="Pine nut">pine nuts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ginseng" title="Ginseng">ginseng</a> roots from Korea and <a href="/wiki/Mango" title="Mango">mangoes</a> from Southeast Asia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002123-293">[290]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchafer19851–2-294">[291]</a> In China, there was a great demand for sugar; during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Harsha" title="Harsha">Harsha</a> over northern India (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 606–647), Indian envoys to the Tang brought two makers of sugar who successfully taught the Chinese how to cultivate <a href="/wiki/Sugarcane" title="Sugarcane">sugarcane</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESen200338–40-295">[292]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200476,_83–84-296">[293]</a> Cotton also came from India as a finished product from <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a>, although it was during the Tang that the Chinese began to grow and process cotton, and by the <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a> it became the prime textile fabric in China.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200483-297">[294]</a> Some foods were <a href="/wiki/Food_taboo" class="mw-redirect" title="Food taboo">off-limits</a>, as the Tang court encouraged people <a href="/wiki/Beef_taboo#China" class="mw-redirect" title="Beef taboo">not to eat beef</a>. This was due to the role of the bull as a valuable <a href="/wiki/Working_animal" title="Working animal">working animal</a>. From 831 to 833, Emperor Wenzong even banned the slaughter of cattle on the grounds of his religious convictions to Buddhism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002125-298">[295]</a> Methods of food preservation were important, and practised throughout China. The common people used simple methods of preservation, such as digging deep ditches and trenches, <a href="/wiki/Brining" title="Brining">brining</a>, and salting their foods.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002126–127-299">[296]</a> The emperor had large ice pits located in the parks in and around Chang'an for preserving food, while the wealthy and elite had their own smaller ice pits. Each year the emperor had labourers carve 1000 blocks of ice from frozen creeks in mountain valleys, each block with dimensions 0.9 m × 0.9 m × 1.1 m (2 ft 11 in × 2 ft 11 in × 3 ft 7 in) . Frozen delicacies such as chilled melon were enjoyed during the summer.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002126-300">[297]</a> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tang era gilt-gold bowl with lotus and animal motifs"><img alt="Tang era gilt-gold bowl with lotus and animal motifs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg/250px-%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg/330px-%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg/500px-%E9%B8%B3%E9%B8%AF%E8%8E%B2%E7%93%A3%E7%BA%B9%E9%87%91%E7%A2%97_20091112.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Tang era <a href="/wiki/Gilding" title="Gilding">gilt</a>-gold bowl with lotus and animal motifs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Tang sancai-glazed lobed dish with incised decorations, 8th century"><img alt="A Tang sancai-glazed lobed dish with incised decorations, 8th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg/250px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg/330px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg/500px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1701" data-file-height="1577" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A Tang <a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">sancai</a>-glazed lobed dish with incised decorations, 8th century</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tomb figure from the 7th–8th century of a lady attendant during the Tang era. Female hosts prepared feasts, tea parties, and played drinking games with their guests"><img alt="Tomb figure from the 7th–8th century of a lady attendant during the Tang era. Female hosts prepared feasts, tea parties, and played drinking games with their guests" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg/91px-Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg" decoding="async" width="91" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg/137px-Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg/183px-Dame_Chine_Guimet_291003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="779" data-file-height="1701" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_tomb_figures" title="Tang dynasty tomb figures">Tomb figure</a> from the 7th–8th century of a lady attendant during the Tang era. Female hosts prepared feasts, tea parties, and played drinking games with their guests</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A rounded "offering plate" with design in "three colors" (sancai) glaze, 8th century"><img alt="A rounded "offering plate" with design in "three colors" (sancai) glaze, 8th century" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg/250px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg/330px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg/500px-Plat_%C3%A0_offrandes_Chine_Mus%C3%A9e_Guimet_2418_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1701" data-file-height="1585" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">A rounded "offering plate" with design in "three colors" (<a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">sancai</a>) glaze, 8th century</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Science_and_technology">Science and technology</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Science and technology">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Science and technology of the Tang dynasty">Science and technology of the Tang dynasty</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_China" title="History of science and technology in China">History of science and technology in China</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions" title="List of Chinese inventions">List of Chinese inventions</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_discoveries" title="List of Chinese discoveries">List of Chinese discoveries</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Engineering">Engineering</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Engineering">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mirror_with_phoenixes,_birds,_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/250px-Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/500px-Mirror_with_phoenixes%2C_birds%2C_and_flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2886" data-file-height="2826" /></a><figcaption>A square <a href="/wiki/Bronze_mirror" title="Bronze mirror">bronze mirror</a> with <a href="/wiki/Fenghuang" title="Fenghuang">a phoenix</a> motif of gold and silver inlaid with <a href="/wiki/Lacquer" title="Lacquer">lacquer</a>, 8th century</figcaption></figure> Technology during the Tang period was built also upon the precedents of the past. Previous advancements in clockworks and timekeeping included the mechanical gear systems of <a href="/wiki/Zhang_Heng" title="Zhang Heng">Zhang Heng</a> (78–139) and <a href="/wiki/Ma_Jun_(mechanical_engineer)" title="Ma Jun (mechanical engineer)">Ma Jun</a> (<abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 3rd century), which gave the Tang mathematician, mechanical engineer, astronomer, and monk <a href="/wiki/Yi_Xing" title="Yi Xing">Yi Xing</a> (683–727) inspiration when he invented the world's first clockwork <a href="/wiki/Escapement" title="Escapement">escapement</a> mechanism in 725.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986a319-301">[298]</a> This was used alongside a <a href="/wiki/Water_clock" title="Water clock">water clock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waterwheel" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterwheel">waterwheel</a> to power a rotating <a href="/wiki/Armillary_sphere" title="Armillary sphere">armillary sphere</a> in representation of astronomical observation. Yi Xing's device also had a mechanically timed bell that was struck automatically every hour, and a drum that was struck automatically every quarter-hour; essentially, a <a href="/wiki/Striking_clock" title="Striking clock">striking clock</a>. Yi Xing's <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_clock" title="Astronomical clock">astronomical clock</a> and water-powered armillary sphere became well known throughout the country, since students attempting to pass the imperial examinations by 730 had to write an essay on the device as an exam requirement.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b473–475-302">[299]</a> However, the most common type of public and palace timekeeping device was the inflow clepsydra. Its design was improved c. 610 by the Sui dynasty engineers Geng Xun and Yuwen Kai. They provided a <a href="/wiki/Steelyard_balance" title="Steelyard balance">steelyard balance</a> that allowed seasonal adjustment in the <a href="/wiki/Pressure_head" title="Pressure head">pressure head</a> of the compensating tank and could then control the rate of flow for different lengths of day and night.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b480-303">[300]</a> There were many other mechanical inventions during the Tang era. These included a 0.9 m (2 ft 11 in) tall mechanical wine server created during the early 8th century in the shape of an artificial mountain, carved out of iron and rested on a <a href="/wiki/Lacquer" title="Lacquer">lacquered</a>-wooden tortoise frame. This intricate device used a hydraulic pump that siphoned wine out of metal <a href="/wiki/Chinese_dragon" title="Chinese dragon">dragon</a>-headed faucets, as well as tilting bowls that were timed to dip wine down, by force of gravity when filled, into an artificial lake that had intricate iron leaves popping up as trays for placing party treats.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002144-304">[301]</a> Furthermore, as the historian Charles Benn describes it: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote">Midway up the southern side of the mountain was a dragon ... the beast opened its mouth and spit brew into a goblet seated on a large [iron] lotus leaf beneath. When the cup was 80% full, the dragon ceased spewing ale, and a guest immediately seized the goblet. If he was slow in draining the cup and returning it to the leaf, the door of a pavilion at the top of the mountain opened and a mechanical wine server, dressed in a cap and gown, emerged with a wooden bat in his hand. As soon as the guest returned the goblet, the dragon refilled it, the wine server withdrew, and the doors of the pavilion closed ... A pump siphoned the ale that flowed into the ale pool through a hidden hole and returned the brew to the reservoir [holding more than 16 quarts/15 litres of wine] inside the mountain.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002144-304">[301]</a></blockquote> Yet the use of a teasing mechanical puppet in this wine-serving device was not exactly a novel invention of the Tang, since the use of mechanical puppets in China date to the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a> (221–206 BC). In the 3rd century <a href="/wiki/Ma_Jun_(mechanical_engineer)" title="Ma Jun (mechanical engineer)">Ma Jun</a> had an entire mechanical puppet theatre operated by the rotation of a waterwheel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b158-305">[302]</a> There are many stories of <a href="/wiki/Automaton" title="Automaton">automatons</a> used in the Tang, including general Yang Wulian's wooden statue of a monk who stretched his hands out to collect contributions; when the number of coins reached a certain weight, the mechanical figure moved his arms to deposit them in a satchel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b163-306">[303]</a> This weight-and-lever mechanism was exactly like Heron's penny <a href="/wiki/Slot_machine" title="Slot machine">slot machine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b163footnote_c-307">[304]</a> Other devices included one by Wang Ju, whose "wooden otter" could allegedly catch fish; Needham suspects a spring trap of some kind was employed here.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b163-306">[303]</a> In the realm of structural engineering and technical <a href="/wiki/Chinese_architecture" title="Chinese architecture">Chinese architecture</a>, there were also government standard building codes, outlined in the early Tang building code Yingshan Ling. Fragments of this book have survived in the Tang Lü (Tang Code), while the Song dynasty architectural manual of the <a href="/wiki/Yingzao_Fashi" title="Yingzao Fashi">Yingzao Fashi</a> by <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_the_Song_dynasty#Literature" title="Architecture of the Song dynasty">Li Jie</a> (1065–1101) in 1103 is the oldest existing technical treatise on Chinese architecture that has survived in full. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (712–756), there were 34,850 registered craftsmen serving the state, managed by an agency for palace buildings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGuo19981,_3-308">[305]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Woodblock_printing">Woodblock printing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Woodblock printing">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">Woodblock printing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Playing_cards" class="mw-redirect" title="Playing cards">Playing cards</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chinese_playing_cards" title="Chinese playing cards">Chinese playing cards</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jingangjing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Jingangjing.jpg/220px-Jingangjing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Jingangjing.jpg/330px-Jingangjing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Jingangjing.jpg/440px-Jingangjing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4917" data-file-height="3438" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" title="Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a> (868) is the world's first widely printed book to include a specific date of printing</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">Woodblock printing</a> made the written word available to vastly greater audiences. One of the world's oldest surviving printed documents is a miniature Buddhist <a href="/wiki/Dharani" title="Dharani">dharani</a> sutra unearthed at Xi'an in 1974, and dated roughly from 650 to 670.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPan1997979–980-309">[306]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" title="Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a> is the first full-length book printed at regular size, complete with illustrations embedded with the text and precisely dated to 868.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETemple1986112-310">[307]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986d151-311">[308]</a> Among the earliest documents to be printed were Buddhist texts as well as calendars, the latter essential for calculating and marking which days were auspicious and which days were not.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999124–125-312">[309]</a> With so many books coming into circulation for the general public, literacy rates could improve, along with the lower classes being able to obtain cheaper sources of study. Therefore, there were more lower-class people seen entering the Imperial Examinations and passing them by the later Song dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbreyWalthallPalais2006159-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFairbankGoldman200694-313">[310]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEbrey1999147-314">[311]</a> Although the later <a href="/wiki/Bi_Sheng" title="Bi Sheng">Bi Sheng</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Movable_type" title="Movable type">movable type</a> printing in the 11th century was innovative for his period, woodblock printing that became widespread in the Tang remained the dominant <a href="/wiki/History_of_typography_in_East_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="History of typography in East Asia">method of printing in China</a> until the more advanced <a href="/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">printing press</a> from Europe became widely accepted and used in East Asia.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986d227-315">[312]</a> The first use of the <a href="/wiki/Playing_card" title="Playing card">playing card</a> during the Tang dynasty was an auxiliary invention of the new age of printing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986d131–132-316">[313]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cartography">Cartography</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Cartography">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dunhuang_star_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Dunhuang_star_map.jpg/220px-Dunhuang_star_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Dunhuang_star_map.jpg/330px-Dunhuang_star_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Dunhuang_star_map.jpg/440px-Dunhuang_star_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2128" data-file-height="2136" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Dunhuang_map" class="mw-redirect" title="Dunhuang map">Dunhuang map</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Star_map" class="mw-redirect" title="Star map">star map</a> dated c. 700 depicting the north polar region;<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEXi1981464-317">[314]</a> the map belongs to a set cataloguing a total of over 1,300 stars<a href="#cite_note-318">[315]</a></figcaption></figure> In <a href="/wiki/Cartography" title="Cartography">cartography</a>, the Tang made further advances beyond the standards of the Han. When the Tang chancellor <a href="/wiki/Pei_Ju" title="Pei Ju">Pei Ju</a> (547–627) was working for the Sui dynasty as a Commercial Commissioner in 605, he created a well-known gridded map with a <a href="/wiki/Scale_(map)" title="Scale (map)">graduated scale</a> in the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Pei_Xiu" title="Pei Xiu">Pei Xiu</a> (224–271).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986a538–540,_543-319">[316]</a> The Tang chancellor <a href="/wiki/Xu_Jingzong" title="Xu Jingzong">Xu Jingzong</a> (592–672) was also known for his map of China drawn in 658. In 785, the <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Dezong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Dezong of Tang">Emperor Dezong</a> had the geographer and cartographer <a href="/wiki/Jia_Dan" title="Jia Dan">Jia Dan</a> (730–805) complete a map of China and her former colonies in Central Asia. Upon its completion in 801, the map was 9.1 m (30 ft) in length and 10 m (33 ft) in height, mapped out on a grid scale of one inch equalling one hundred <a href="/wiki/Li_(unit)" title="Li (unit)">li</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986a543-320">[317]</a> A Chinese map of 1137 is similar in complexity to the one made by Jia Dan, carved on a stone stele with a grid scale of 100 li.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986aPlate_LXXXI-321">[318]</a> The only Tang-era maps that have survived are <a href="/wiki/Star_chart" title="Star chart">star charts</a>, despite the earliest <a href="/wiki/Chinese_cartography" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese cartography">extant terrain maps of China</a> from the earlier <a href="/wiki/State_of_Qin" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Qin">state of Qin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHsu199390-322">[319]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medicine">Medicine</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Medicine">edit</a>]</div> The Chinese of the Tang era were interested in the benefits of officially classifying the <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine" title="Traditional Chinese medicine">medicines</a> used in <a href="/wiki/Pharmacology" title="Pharmacology">pharmacology</a>. In 657, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Gaozong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Gaozong of Tang">Emperor Gaozong of Tang</a> (<abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 649–683) commissioned an official <a href="/wiki/Materia_medica" title="Materia medica">materia medica</a>, complete with text and illustrated drawings for 833 different medicinal substances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenn2002235-323">[320]</a> In addition to compiling pharmacopeias, the Tang fostered learning in medicine by upholding imperial medical colleges, state examinations for doctors, and publishing forensic manuals for physicians.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200483-297">[294]</a> Authors of medicine in the Tang include Zhen Chuan (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 643) and <a href="/wiki/Sun_Simiao" title="Sun Simiao">Sun Simiao</a> (581–682); the former was the first to identify in writing that patients with diabetes had an excess of sugar in their urine, and the latter was the first to recognise that diabetic patients should avoid consuming alcohol and starchy foods. As written by Zhen Chuan and others in the Tang, the <a href="/wiki/Thyroid" title="Thyroid">thyroid</a> glands of sheep and pigs were successfully used to treat <a href="/wiki/Goitre" title="Goitre">goitres</a>; thyroid extracts were not used to treat patients with goitre in the West until 1890.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETemple1986132–135-324">[321]</a> The use of the <a href="/wiki/Dental_amalgam" class="mw-redirect" title="Dental amalgam">dental amalgam</a>, manufactured from tin and silver, was first introduced in the medical text <a href="/wiki/Xinxiu_bencao" title="Xinxiu bencao">Xinxiu bencao</a> written by Su Gong in 659.<a href="#cite_note-325">[322]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alchemy,_gas_cylinders,_and_air_conditioning">Alchemy, gas cylinders, and air conditioning</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Alchemy, gas cylinders, and air conditioning">edit</a>]</div> Chinese scientists of the Tang period employed complex chemical formulas for an array of different purposes, often found through experiments of alchemy. These included a waterproof and dust-repelling cream or <a href="/wiki/Varnish" title="Varnish">varnish</a> for clothes and weapons, fireproof cement for glass and porcelain wares, a waterproof cream applied to silk clothes of underwater divers, a cream designated for polishing bronze mirrors, and many other useful formulas.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986e452-326">[323]</a> Porcelain was invented in China during the Tang, although many types of glazed ceramics preceded it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdshead200480-214">[211]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWood199949-327">[324]</a> Since the time of the Han, the Chinese had drilled deep <a href="/wiki/Borehole" title="Borehole">boreholes</a> to transport natural gas from <a href="/wiki/Pipeline_transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipeline transport">bamboo pipelines</a> to stoves where <a href="/wiki/Cast_iron" title="Cast iron">cast iron</a> evaporation pans boiled brine to extract salt.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETemple198678–79-328">[325]</a> During the Tang dynasty, a <a href="/wiki/Gazetteer" title="Gazetteer">gazetteer</a> of Sichuan province stated that at one of these 182 m (597 ft) 'fire wells', men collected natural gas into portable bamboo tubes which could be carried around for dozens of kilometres and still produce a flame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETemple198679–80-329">[326]</a> These were essentially the first <a href="/wiki/Gas_cylinder" title="Gas cylinder">gas cylinders</a>; Robert Temple assumes <a href="/wiki/Tap_(valve)" title="Tap (valve)">some sort of tap</a> was used for this device.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETemple198679–80-329">[326]</a> The inventor <a href="/wiki/Ding_Huan" title="Ding Huan">Ding Huan</a> (<abbr title="floruit ('flourished' – known to have been active at a particular time or during a particular period)">fl.</abbr> 180) of the Han dynasty invented a rotary fan for air conditioning.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b99,_151,_233-330">[327]</a> In 747, <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Xuanzong_of_Tang" title="Emperor Xuanzong of Tang">Emperor Xuanzong</a> had a "Cool Hall" built in the imperial palace, which <a href="/wiki/Tang_Yulin" title="Tang Yulin">Tang Yulin</a> described as having water-powered fan wheels for air conditioning as well as rising jet streams of water from fountains.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b134,_151-331">[328]</a> During the subsequent Song dynasty, written sources mentioned the rotary fan as even more widely used.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENeedham1986b151-332">[329]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historiography">Historiography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Historiography">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_historiography" title="Chinese historiography">Chinese historiography</a></div> The first classic work about the Tang is the <a href="/wiki/Old_Book_of_Tang" title="Old Book of Tang">Old Book of Tang</a> by Liu Xu et al. of the <a href="/wiki/Later_Jin_(Five_Dynasties)" title="Later Jin (Five Dynasties)">Later Jin</a>. This was edited into another history (labeled the <a href="/wiki/New_Book_of_Tang" title="New Book of Tang">New Book of Tang</a>) by the Song historians <a href="/wiki/Ouyang_Xiu" title="Ouyang Xiu">Ouyang Xiu</a>, Song Qi, et al. Both were based on earlier annals, now lost.<a href="#cite_note-333">[330]</a> Both of them also rank among the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-Four_Histories" title="Twenty-Four Histories">Twenty-Four Histories</a> of China. One of the surviving sources of the Old Book of Tang, primarily covering up to 756, is the <a href="/wiki/Tongdian" title="Tongdian">Tongdian</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Du_You" title="Du You">Du You</a> presented to the emperor in 801. The Tang period was placed into the enormous 294-volume <a href="/wiki/Universal_history_(genre)" title="Universal history (genre)">universal history</a> text of the <a href="/wiki/Zizhi_Tongjian" title="Zizhi Tongjian">Zizhi Tongjian</a>, edited, compiled, and completed in 1084 by a team of scholars under the Song dynasty Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Sima_Guang" title="Sima Guang">Sima Guang</a>. This historical text covered the history of China from the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Warring_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Warring States">Warring States</a> in 403 BC until the beginning of the Song dynasty in 960. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> The polite form Dà Táng (大唐, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> 'Great Tang') was often used, such as in the names of books of the period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson20136-8">[8]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> During the rule of the Tang, the world population grew from approximately 190 million to approximately 240 million, a difference of 50 million. See also <a href="/wiki/Medieval_demography" title="Medieval demography">medieval demography</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a> From right to left are representatives hailing from <a href="/wiki/Lu_(state)" title="Lu (state)">Lu</a> (魯國)—a reference to the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Wei" title="Eastern Wei">Eastern Wei</a>—<a href="/wiki/Rouran" class="mw-redirect" title="Rouran">Rouran</a> (芮芮國), <a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Empire" title="Sasanian Empire">Persia</a> (波斯國), <a href="/wiki/Baekje" title="Baekje">Baekje</a> (百濟國), <a href="/wiki/Kumedh" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumedh">Kumedh</a> (胡密丹), <a href="/wiki/Balkh" title="Balkh">Baiti</a> (白題國), <a href="/wiki/Mohe_people" title="Mohe people">Mohe people</a> (靺國), Central <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> (中天竺), <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a> (獅子國), Northern <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> (北天竺), <a href="/wiki/Tashkurgan" title="Tashkurgan">Tashkurgan</a> (謁盤陀), Wuxing of the <a href="/wiki/Chouchi" title="Chouchi">Chouchi</a> ((武興國), <a href="/wiki/Kucha" title="Kucha">Kucha</a> ((龜茲國), <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> (倭國), <a href="/wiki/Goguryeo" title="Goguryeo">Goguryeo</a> (高麗國), <a href="/wiki/Khotan" class="mw-redirect" title="Khotan">Khotan</a> (于闐國), <a href="/wiki/Silla" title="Silla">Silla</a> (新羅國), <a href="/wiki/Dangchang" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangchang">Dangchang</a> (宕昌國), <a href="/wiki/Langkasuka" title="Langkasuka">Langkasuka</a> (狼牙修), <a href="/wiki/Dengzhi" title="Dengzhi">Dengzhi</a> (鄧至國), <a href="/wiki/Yarkent_Khanate" title="Yarkent Khanate">Yarkand</a> (周古柯), <a href="/wiki/Kabadiyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabadiyan">Kabadiyan</a> (阿跋檀), the "Barbarians of Jianping" (建平蠻), and Nudan (女蜑國). </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Citations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlundenElvin198326,_92–93-1"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlundenElvin198326,_92–93_1-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBlundenElvin1983">Blunden & Elvin (1983)</a>, pp. 26, 92–93. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETwitchettWechsler1979281-2"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETwitchettWechsler1979281_2-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFTwitchettWechsler1979">Twitchett & Wechsler (1979)</a>, p. 281. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShin201439,_47-3"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShin201439,_47_3-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShin2014">Shin (2014)</a>, pp. 39, 47. </li> <li 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href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-20622-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-20622-9"><bdi>978-90-04-20622-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Court+Historiography+in+Early+Tang+China%3A+Assigning+a+Place+to+History+and+Historians+at+the+Palace&rft.btitle=Royal+Courts+in+Dynastic+States+and+Empires%3A+A+Global+Perspective&rft.place=Leiden&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E171-%3C%2Fspan%3E198&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-90-04-20622-9&rft.aulast=Togan&rft.aufirst=Isenbike&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiKX39fOyvNoC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFTwitchettWechsler1979" class="citation cs2">Twitchett, Denis; 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href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-7-5333-1174-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-7-5333-1174-2"><bdi>978-7-5333-1174-2</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%E5%94%90%E4%BB%A3%E9%A5%AE%E9%A3%9F&rft.place=Dongying&rft.pub=Qilu+Publishing+House&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-7-5333-1174-2&rft.aulast=Wang&rft.aufirst=Saishi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWang2003" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Wang Yongxing (王永兴) (2003), <bdi lang="zh">唐代前期军事史略论稿</bdi> [Draft Discussion of Early Tang Dynasty's Military Affairs History] (in Chinese), Beijing: Kunlun, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-7-80040-669-0" 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(1959), Buddhism in Chinese History, Stanford University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5036-2067-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5036-2067-4"><bdi>978-1-5036-2067-4</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Buddhism+in+Chinese+History&rft.pub=Stanford+University+Press&rft.date=1959&rft.isbn=978-1-5036-2067-4&rft.aulast=Wright&rft.aufirst=Arthur+F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFXi1981" class="citation cs2">Xi, Zezong (1981), "Chinese Studies in the History of Astronomy, 1949–1979", Isis, 72 (3): 456–470, <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981Isis...72..456X">1981Isis...72..456X</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F352793">10.1086/352793</a>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/352793">352793</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144323050">144323050</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Isis&rft.atitle=Chinese+Studies+in+the+History+of+Astronomy%2C+1949%E2%80%931979&rft.volume=72&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E456-%3C%2Fspan%3E470&rft.date=1981&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F352793&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A144323050%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F352793%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1981Isis...72..456X&rft.aulast=Xi&rft.aufirst=Zezong&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFXu1993" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Xu, Daoxun (1993), <bdi lang="zh">唐玄宗传</bdi> [The Biography of Tang Xuanzong], People's Press (in Chinese), Beijing, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-7-01-001210-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-7-01-001210-0"><bdi>978-7-01-001210-0</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=People%27s+Press&rft.atitle=%E5%94%90%E7%8E%84%E5%AE%97%E4%BC%A0&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=978-7-01-001210-0&rft.aulast=Xu&rft.aufirst=Daoxun&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFXue1992" class="citation cs2 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Xue_Zongzheng" title="Xue Zongzheng">Xue, Zongzheng</a> (1992), <bdi lang="zh">突厥史</bdi> [Turkic peoples] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-7-5004-0432-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-7-5004-0432-3"><bdi>978-7-5004-0432-3</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%E7%AA%81%E5%8E%A5%E5%8F%B2&rft.place=Beijing&rft.pub=China+Social+Sciences+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-7-5004-0432-3&rft.aulast=Xue&rft.aufirst=Zongzheng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFYu1998" class="citation cs2">Yu, Pauline (1998), "Charting the Landscape of Chinese Poetry", Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, vol. 20, pp. 71–87, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/495264">495264</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chinese+Literature%3A+Essays%2C+Articles%2C+Reviews&rft.atitle=Charting+the+Landscape+of+Chinese+Poetry&rft.volume=20&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E71-%3C%2Fspan%3E87&rft.date=1998&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F495264%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Yu&rft.aufirst=Pauline&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFYule1915" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Yule" title="Henry Yule">Yule, Henry</a> (1915) [1866], Cordier, Henri (ed.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/cathaywaythither01yule">Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China</a>, vol. 1 (New ed.), London: <a href="/wiki/Hakluyt_Society" title="Hakluyt Society">Hakluyt Society</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cathay+and+the+Way+Thither%3A+Being+a+Collection+of+Medieval+Notices+of+China&rft.place=London&rft.edition=New&rft.pub=Hakluyt+Society&rft.date=1915&rft.aulast=Yule&rft.aufirst=Henry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fcathaywaythither01yule&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs2">Abramson, Marc S. (2008), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ethnic_Identity_in_Tang_China/J7fFhc2VM5sC">Ethnic Identity in Tang China</a>, Philadelphia: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania_Press" title="University of Pennsylvania Press">University of Pennsylvania Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8122-4052-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8122-4052-8"><bdi>978-0-8122-4052-8</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ethnic+Identity+in+Tang+China&rft.place=Philadelphia&rft.pub=University+of+Pennsylvania+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-8122-4052-8&rft.aulast=Abramson&rft.aufirst=Marc+S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FEthnic_Identity_in_Tang_China%2FJ7fFhc2VM5sC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs2">Schafer, Edward H. (1967), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Vermilion_Bird/yaeESYegRXMC">The Vermilion Bird: T'ang Images of the South</a>, Berkeley and Los Angeles: <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-01145-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-01145-8"><bdi>978-0-520-01145-8</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Vermilion+Bird%3A+T%27ang+Images+of+the+South&rft.place=Berkeley+and+Los+Angeles&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=1967&rft.isbn=978-0-520-01145-8&rft.aulast=Schafer&rft.aufirst=Edward+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FThe_Vermilion_Bird%2FyaeESYegRXMC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs2">Wang, Zhenping (2013), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tang_China_in_Multi_Polar_Asia/L1gEEAAAQBAJ">Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War</a>, Honolulu: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hawaii_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Hawaii Press">University of Hawaii Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8248-3644-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8248-3644-3"><bdi>978-0-8248-3644-3</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tang+China+in+Multi-Polar+Asia%3A+A+History+of+Diplomacy+and+War&rft.place=Honolulu&rft.pub=University+of+Hawaii+Press&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-8248-3644-3&rft.aulast=Wang&rft.aufirst=Zhenping&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FTang_China_in_Multi_Polar_Asia%2FL1gEEAAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATang+dynasty" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tang_dynasty&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110806080810/http://etext.virginia.edu/chinese/frame.htm">300 Tang Poems</a> – Chinese Text Initiative, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230307101723/http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/dynasty-tang.cfm">Guide to Tang art, with video commentary</a> – Art of Asia, <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art" title="Minneapolis Institute of Art">Minneapolis Institute of Art</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynasties in Chinese history">Dynasties in Chinese history</a> 618–690, 705–907 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Five_Dynasties_and_Ten_Kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms">Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Tang_dynasty_topics175" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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War">Goguryeo–Tang War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baekje%E2%80%93Tang_War" title="Baekje–Tang War">Baekje–Tang War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silla%E2%80%93Tang_War" title="Silla–Tang War">Silla–Tang War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang%E2%80%93Tibet_relations" title="Tang–Tibet relations">Tang–Tibet relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_campaigns_against_the_Western_Turks" title="Tang campaigns against the Western Turks">Tang–Western Turks War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_the_oasis_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang campaign against the oasis states">Oasis states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_Karakhoja" title="Tang campaign against Karakhoja">Karakhoja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_campaigns_against_Karasahr" title="Tang campaigns against Karasahr">Karasahr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_Kucha" title="Tang campaign against Kucha">Kucha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Western_Turks" title="Conquest of the Western Turks">Conquest</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Talas" title="Battle of Talas">Battle of Talas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion" title="An Lushan rebellion">An Lushan rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_treaty_between_China_and_Tibet_(783)" title="Peace treaty between China and Tibet (783)">Qingshui Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niu%E2%80%93Li_factional_strife" title="Niu–Li factional strife">Niu–Li factional strife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changqing_Treaty" title="Changqing Treaty">Changqing Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Dew_incident" title="Sweet Dew incident">Sweet Dew incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanzhao#Territorial_expansion" title="Nanzhao">Tang-Nanzhao conflicts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tang-Nanzhao_conflicts_in_Annan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang-Nanzhao conflicts in Annan">Annan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Songping" title="Siege of Songping">Songping</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huang_Chao_Rebellion" title="Huang Chao Rebellion">Huang Chao Rebellion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Government175" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Government</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_China" title="Emperor of China">Emperor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="List of emperors of the Tang dynasty">List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Li" title="House of Li">House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_tree_of_Chinese_monarchs_(middle)#Tang_and_Wu_Zhou_dynasties" class="mw-redirect" title="Family tree of Chinese monarchs (middle)">Family tree</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">Chancellor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Administrative divisions of the Tang dynasty">Administrative divisions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jimi_system" title="Jimi system">Jimi system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fanzhen" title="Fanzhen">Fanzhen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Three_Fanzhen_of_Hebei" title="Three Fanzhen of Hebei">Hebei</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_examination#Tang_dynasty_(618–907)" title="Imperial examination">Imperial examinations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_official_headwear" title="Tang official headwear">Official headwear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Military</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jiedushi" title="Jiedushi">Jiedushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Guards_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Imperial Guards (Tang dynasty)">Imperial guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shence_Army" title="Shence Army">Shence Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Military_Affairs" title="Bureau of Military Affairs">Shumiyuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_in_the_Tang_military" title="Turks in the Tang military">Turkic generals</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Three_Departments_and_Six_Ministries#Three_Departments" title="Three Departments and Six Ministries">Three Departments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Department_of_State_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of State Affairs">Department of State Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhongshu_Sheng" title="Zhongshu Sheng">Secretariat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menxia_Sheng" title="Menxia Sheng">Chancellery</a></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Secretariat-Chancellery" title="Secretariat-Chancellery">Secretariat-Chancellery</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Three_Departments_and_Six_Ministries#Six_Ministries" title="Three Departments and Six Ministries">Six Ministries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Personnel" title="Ministry of Personnel">Ministry of Personnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Revenue_(imperial_China)" title="Ministry of Revenue (imperial China)">Ministry of Revenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Rites" title="Ministry of Rites">Ministry of Rites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_War_(imperial_China)" title="Ministry of War (imperial China)">Ministry of War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(imperial_China)" title="Ministry of Justice (imperial China)">Ministry of Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Works_(imperial_China)" title="Ministry of Works (imperial China)">Ministry of Works</a></li></ol> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Protectorates</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_in_Inner_Asia" title="Tang dynasty in Inner Asia">Tang dynasty in Inner Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_West" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the West">Protectorate General to Pacify the West</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Garrisons_of_Anxi" title="Four Garrisons of Anxi">Four Garrisons of Anxi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beiting_Protectorate" title="Beiting Protectorate">Beiting Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_North" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the North">Protectorate General to Pacify the North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the South">Protectorate General to Pacify the South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate_General_to_Pacify_the_East" title="Protectorate General to Pacify the East">Protectorate General to Pacify the East</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ungjin_Commandery" title="Ungjin Commandery">Ungjin Commandery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyerim_Territory_Area_Command" title="Gyerim Territory Area Command">Gyerim Territory Area Command</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Warlords</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chengde_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Chengde (Tang dynasty)">Chengde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weibo_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Weibo (Tang dynasty)">Weibo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youzhou_Jiedushi" title="Youzhou Jiedushi">Youzhou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty#Zhaoyi" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Zhaoyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty#Pinglu" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Pinglu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty#Bian-song_(Xuanwu)" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Bian-song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Tang_dynasty#Huaixi_(Zhangyi)" title="Military history of the Tang dynasty">Huaixi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Culture175" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Culture</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_art" title="Tang dynasty art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sancai" title="Sancai">Sancai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tang_poetry" title="Tang poetry">Poetry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Three_Hundred_Tang_Poems" title="Three Hundred Tang Poems">Three Hundred Tang Poems</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Playing_card#China" title="Playing card">Playing card</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Palace_Concert" title="A Palace Concert">A Palace Concert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_Receiving_the_Tibetan_Envoy" title="Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy">Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huaisu%27s_Autobiography" title="Huaisu's Autobiography">Huaisu's Autobiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night-Shining_White" title="Night-Shining White">Night-Shining White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Companion_statues:_Kashyapa_and_Ananda" title="Companion statues: Kashyapa and Ananda">Kashyapa & Ananda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_Steeds_of_Zhao_Mausoleum" title="Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum">Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autumn_Dew" class="mw-redirect" title="Autumn Dew">Autumn Dew</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dazu_Rock_Carvings" title="Dazu Rock Carvings">Dazu Rock Carvings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leshan_Giant_Buddha" title="Leshan Giant Buddha">Leshan Giant Buddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rongxian_Giant_Buddha" title="Rongxian Giant Buddha">Rongxian Giant Buddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thousand-Buddha_Cliff" title="Thousand-Buddha Cliff">Thousand-Buddha Cliff</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Writers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daoxuan" title="Daoxuan">Daoxuan</a> (596–667) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Standard_Design_for_Buddhist_Temple_Construction" title="Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction">Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Zhangsun" title="Empress Zhangsun">Empress Zhangsun</a> (601–636)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bianji" title="Bianji">Bianji</a> (7th c.) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Tang_Records_on_the_Western_Regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Tang Records on the Western Regions">Great Tang Records on the Western Regions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Huan" title="Du Huan">Du Huan</a> (751–762)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bai_Xingjian" title="Bai Xingjian">Bai Xingjian</a> (776–826) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Li_Wa" title="The Tale of Li Wa">The Tale of Li Wa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lu_Yu" title="Lu Yu">Lu Yu</a> (733–804) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Classic_of_Tea" title="The Classic of Tea">The Classic of Tea</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Guangting" title="Du Guangting">Du Guangting</a> (850–933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yang_Yunsong" title="Yang Yunsong">Yang Yunsong</a> (9th c.) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Green_Satchel_Classic" title="Green Satchel Classic">Green Satchel Classic</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Three_Hundred_Tang_Poems#Poets" title="Three Hundred Tang Poems">Poets</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luo_Binwang" title="Luo Binwang">Luo Binwang</a> (619–684)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Shenyan" title="Du Shenyan">Du Shenyan</a> (645–708)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Bo_(poet)" title="Wang Bo (poet)">Wang Bo</a> (650–676)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chen_Zi%27ang" title="Chen Zi'ang">Chen Zi'ang</a> (656–702)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/He_Zhizhang" title="He Zhizhang">He Zhizhang</a> (659–744)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Jiuling" title="Zhang Jiuling">Zhang Jiuling</a> (673–740)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meng_Haoran" title="Meng Haoran">Meng Haoran</a> (689–740)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Qi_(poet)" title="Li Qi (poet)">Li Qi</a> (690–751)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Changling" title="Wang Changling">Wang Changling</a> (698–756)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)">Wang Wei</a> (699–759)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Bai" title="Li Bai">Li Bai</a> (701–762)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gao_Shi" title="Gao Shi">Gao Shi</a> (704–765)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Zhangqing" title="Liu Zhangqing">Liu Zhangqing</a> (709–785)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Fu" title="Du Fu">Du Fu</a> (712–770)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Ji_(poet_from_Hubei)" title="Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)">Zhang Ji</a> (712–779)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cen_Shen" title="Cen Shen">Cen Shen</a> (715–770)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Bi" title="Li Bi">Li Bi</a> (722–789)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wei_Yingwu" title="Wei Yingwu">Wei Yingwu</a> (737–792)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lu_Lun" title="Lu Lun">Lu Lun</a> (739–799)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Yu" title="Han Yu">Han Yu</a> (768–824)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Yuxi" title="Liu Yuxi">Liu Yuxi</a> (772–842)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bai_Juyi" title="Bai Juyi">Bai Juyi</a> (772–846)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Zongyuan" title="Liu Zongyuan">Liu Zongyuan</a> (773–819)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuan_Zhen" title="Yuan Zhen">Yuan Zhen</a> (779–831)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Ye_(poet)" title="Li Ye (poet)">Li Ye</a> (d. 784)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_He" title="Li He">Li He</a> (790–817)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niu_Yingzhen" title="Niu Yingzhen">Niu Yingzhen</a> (8th c.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Xu" title="Zhang Xu">Zhang Xu</a> (8th c.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Mu" title="Du Mu">Du Mu</a> (803–852)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wen_Tingyun" title="Wen Tingyun">Wen Tingyun</a> (812–866)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Shangyin" title="Li Shangyin">Li Shangyin</a> (813–858)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mo_Xuanqing" title="Mo Xuanqing">Mo Xuanqing</a> (834-?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yu_Xuanji" title="Yu Xuanji">Yu Xuanji</a> (840–868)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du_Qiuniang" title="Du Qiuniang">Du Qiuniang</a> (9th c.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li%C3%AAu_H%E1%BB%AFu_Ph%C6%B0%C6%A1ng" title="Liêu Hữu Phương">Liêu Hữu Phương</a> (9th c.)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty_painting" title="Tang dynasty painting">Painters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yan_Liben" title="Yan Liben">Yan Liben</a> (600–673)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wu_Daozi" title="Wu Daozi">Wu Daozi</a> (680–760)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)">Wang Wei</a> (699–759)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vi%C5%9Ba_%C4%AArasang%C3%A4" title="Viśa Īrasangä">Viśa Īrasangä</a> (7th c.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Gan" title="Han Gan">Han Gan</a> (706–783)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhang_Xuan" title="Zhang Xuan">Zhang Xuan</a> (713–755)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Han_Huang" title="Han Huang">Han Huang</a> (723–787)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhou_Fang_(Tang_dynasty)" title="Zhou Fang (Tang dynasty)">Zhou Fang</a> (730–780)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanxiu" title="Guanxiu">Guanxiu</a> (832–912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jing_Hao" title="Jing Hao">Jing Hao</a> (855–915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Wei_(painter)" title="Sun Wei (painter)">Sun Wei</a> (9th c.)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Religion175" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Religion</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Buddhism#Tang_Dynasty_(618–907_CE)" title="Chinese Buddhism">Buddhism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jizang" title="Jizang">Jizang</a> (549–623)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daochuo" title="Daochuo">Daochuo</a> (562–645)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shandao" title="Shandao">Shandao</a> (613–681)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xuanzang" title="Xuanzang">Xuanzang</a> (fl 602–664)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuiji" title="Kuiji">Kuiji</a> (632–682)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yijing_(monk)" title="Yijing (monk)">Yijing</a> (635–713)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faru_(monk)" title="Faru (monk)">Faru</a> (638–689)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vajrabodhi" title="Vajrabodhi">Vajrabodhi</a> (671–741)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jianzhen" title="Jianzhen">Jianzhen</a> (688–763)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amoghavajra" title="Amoghavajra">Amoghavajra</a> (705–774)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazu_Daoyi" title="Mazu Daoyi">Mazu Daoyi</a> (709–788)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baizhang_Huaihai" title="Baizhang Huaihai">Baizhang Huaihai</a> (720–814)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wukong_(monk)" title="Wukong (monk)">Wukong</a> (730–790)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaoshan_Weiyan" title="Yaoshan Weiyan">Yaoshan Weiyan</a> (745–827)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huiguo" title="Huiguo">Huiguo</a> (746–805)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puhua" title="Puhua">Puhua</a> (770–860)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhaozhou_Congshen" title="Zhaozhou Congshen">Zhaozhou Congshen</a> (778–897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhisheng" title="Zhisheng">Zhisheng</a> (8th c.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dongshan_Liangjie" title="Dongshan Liangjie">Dongshan Liangjie</a> (807–869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yunmen_Wenyan" title="Yunmen Wenyan">Yunmen Wenyan</a> (862–949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gik%C5%AB" title="Gikū">Gikū</a> (9th c.)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Taoism#Tang_Dynasty_(618–907)" title="History of Taoism">Taoism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cheng_Xuanying" title="Cheng Xuanying">Cheng Xuanying</a> (fl 631–655)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%BC_Dongbin" title="Lü Dongbin">Lü Dongbin</a> (796-?)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Confucianism" title="Neo-Confucianism">Neo-Confucianism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Han_Yu" title="Han Yu">Han Yu</a> (768–824)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Ao_(philosopher)" title="Li Ao (philosopher)">Li Ao</a> (772–841)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kong_Yingda" title="Kong Yingda">Kong Yingda</a> (574–648)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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682)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yi_Xing" title="Yi Xing">Yi Xing</a> (683–727)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Siddha" title="Gautama Siddha">Gautama Siddha</a> (fl 714–724) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treatise_on_Astrology_of_the_Kaiyuan_Era" title="Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era">Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jia_Dan" title="Jia Dan">Jia Dan</a> (730–805)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toothbrush" title="Toothbrush">Toothbrush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">Woodblock printing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Economy175" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 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title="Shunga Empire">Shunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gupta_Empire" title="Gupta Empire">Gupta</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenician</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Carthage" title="Ancient Carthage">Carthaginian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Eastern</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satavahana_dynasty" title="Satavahana dynasty">Satavahana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Dynasty_of_Ur" title="Third Dynasty of Ur">Neo-Sumerian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xianbei" title="Xianbei">Xianbei</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rouran_Khaganate" title="Rouran Khaganate">Rouran</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Post-classical_history" title="Post-classical history">Post-classical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist F" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angevin_Empire" title="Angevin Empire">Angevin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crown_of_Aragon" title="Crown of Aragon">Aragonese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Armenia_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Kingdom of Armenia (disambiguation)">Armenian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bagratid_Armenia" title="Bagratid Armenia">Bagratid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Vaspurakan" title="Kingdom of Vaspurakan">Vaspurakan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Artsakh" title="Kingdom of Artsakh">Artsakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Kingdom_of_Cilicia" title="Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia">Cilician</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakarid_Armenia" title="Zakarid Armenia">Zakarid</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty" title="Ayyubid dynasty">Ayyubid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aztec_Empire" title="Aztec Empire">Aztec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin" title="Kingdom of Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanem%E2%80%93Bornu_Empire#Shift_of_the_Sayfuwa_court_from_Kanem_to_Bornu" title="Kanem–Bornu Empire">Bornu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruneian_Sultanate_(1368%E2%80%931888)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruneian Sultanate (1368–1888)">Bruneian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Empire_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Bulgarian Empire (disambiguation)">Bulgarian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Bulgarian_Empire" title="Second Bulgarian Empire">Second</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_Empire_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Burmese Empire (disambiguation)">Burmese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pagan_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan Kingdom">First</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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