From the Taiyuan mutiny in the dust at the end of the Sui Dynasty to the final chapter of the Zen throne in Luoyang City at the beginning of the Five Dynasties, "Tang Dynasty Materials" takes three hundred years as the axis and unfolds the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty. The book not only describes Li Yuan's dormant layout, Li Shimin's recruitment of heroes, from the first battle of Xihe to the establishment of Chang'an, laying the foundation for the founding of the country in troubled times, and finally opening the prelude to Zhenguan with the Xuanwu Gate incident; it also deeply explores the game between Li Shimin and Wei Zheng during the Zhenguan period, and the foundation of the system of "Tang Lv Shu Yi", and witnesses Wu Zetian's power advancement from the harem to the court and the changes of the times. During the prosperous period of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, all the nations came to visit Chang'an, but there was also the hidden worry that Jiedu would expand power. The wars of the Anshi Rebellion wiped out the prosperity, and Du Fu's poetry recorded the tragic songs of the suffering of the people in the troubled times. It also describes the twilight of the Tang Dynasty, when the separatist rule of vassal towns and the dictatorship of eunuchs were intertwined after the Anshi Rebellion. The glimmer of Xianzong's revival was fleeting, and the imperial power gradually declined after the Ganlu Revolution. Finally, the Huangchao Uprising shook the foundation of the dynasty, and the rise of Zhu Wen rewrote the destiny, bringing the Tang Dynasty to an end in the cold wind of Baimayi. The whole book connects institutional innovation, people's livelihood and literati's feelings in historical details, hiding the deep code of the rise and fall of dynasties.
