Dear readers, what we are going to talk about today is not an ordinary dynasty, but a top-notch dynasty that is on hot searches and dominates the headlines in Chang'an - the Tang Dynasty. You want to ask me how exciting these 289 years have been? Listen to me break it apart and crush it to give you a chat.
Chang'an City's Zhuque Street is 150 meters wide and can now accommodate thirty carriages running side by side. Persian Hu merchants lead camels carrying glazed agate, Goguryeo envoys hold gold-encrusted credentials, and orchids dance in the street restaurants. This scene looks like an international metropolis in the seventh century. How do you think this prosperous age came about? Let's start with Li Shimin's talk about the Xuanwu Gate. After holding a sword and chatting with his brothers about "household affairs", this man turned around and launched the Zhenguan rule. All the grassland ministries rushed to recognize him as the "Khan", just like a modern entrepreneur who wins the Economic Person of the Year right after merging an opponent.
To talk about the most exciting turning point drama in the Tang Dynasty, it has to be Yang Guifei's "Murder Case Caused by Lychee Delivery". An Lushan, a 300-pound barbarian Jiedu envoy, turned the prosperous Kaiyuan era into a crisis for Tianbao. Don't look at the tragic Maweipo mutiny, but the scene where Guo Ziyi rode back to He alone was definitely enough to make fifty episodes of a power plot drama. This level of ups and downs is now occupying the prime time slot of historical dramas every minute.
In the cultural circle, there is a fight between gods and gods: Li Bai wrote poems in a tavern in exchange for drink money, Du Fu squatted in a thatched hut and wrote an epic vlog, Xuanzang returned from studying Buddhist scriptures and started a live broadcast to lecture on Buddhism, and Wu Daozi's casual painting "The Picture of the Heavenly King Delivering a Child" became a hit that art students must copy. What's even more amazing is that women can ride horses and hit the ball, and wear men's clothes on the streets. This level of openness is considered pioneering today.
Finally, let me tell you some trivia: During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a palace maid complained
