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The year 2018 marks the 1,400th anniversary of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the most glorious and powerful country in Chinese history. In the long history of China, "Tang people", "Tang style", "Tang art" and even "Tang suit" have always been talked about and taken pride in as a mark of the great power in its prosperous times. This book is a summary of the author's research on the history of the Tang Dynasty, focusing on sorting out the relevant political, economic, and cultural phenomena and key issues in the history of the Tang Dynasty.

This book is an art volume of "Hu-Han China and Foreign Civilizations". It focuses on the topic of "Tang Style Hu Customs and Silk Road Art" and selects current academic cutting-edge topics. According to the clues of the spread of cultural heritage, it carefully examines the precious cultural relics unearthed by recent archaeological excavations to interpret the visual mentality and image patterns of "human treasures" and show another kind of unparalleled cultural heritage. The well-known history of ancient art, from the origin of the Six Horses of the Zhaoling Mausoleum to Turkic customs to the origin of the Tang Ling Stone Man from the steppe nomads, from the Hellenistic art on Queen Zhenshun's stone coffin to the "drunken Fu Fu" Greek god of wine in China, from the Eurasian bathing ruins to the Randen Huji stone carvings, all confirm that the development peak of Chinese culture is closely connected with foreign civilizations. A group of articles collected in the book have caused great repercussions at home and abroad and attracted attention from all walks of life. Their breakthrough exploration has further promoted in-depth research on classic art.

This book is a national volume of "Hu-Han China and Foreign Civilizations". Focusing on the theme of "Hu-Han Souls and Alien Civilizations", this book actively explores the conflicts and integration between Hu-Han during the Han and Tang Dynasties, conducts cutting-edge research from different angles, and writes a series of original papers based on the multi-party interactions between the Steppe Turks, the Western Oasis and the Sogdians in Central Asia, combined with the new results of archaeological excavations and the interpretation of cultural relics, and examines the Central Asian concubines of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Concubine Cao Yenaji speculated on the origins of Cui Yingying and the Sogdians in Puzhou, distinguished the differences between Hu Ji and Wu Ji, and traced the blacks, Indians, Turks, Khitans, Xi people, etc. Who entered China in the Middle Ages, which aroused heated discussions in the academic circle. Her thoughts and memories of disappearing races and her subtle interpretation of national evolution have a role in academic review and promotion, and are very beneficial to sorting out the roots of the diverse formation of China's "nationality".

This book is an exchange volume on "Hu-Han China and Foreign Civilizations". It focuses on the topic of "Memory of the Han and Tang Dynasties and Silk Road Civilization", takes new archaeological discoveries as a guide, incorporates nutrients from Chinese and Western literature, adopts "cosmopolitan" thinking and observation from a broad perspective, starts from a small perspective, picks historical highlights, and launches a series of unique research results. The author combines the practice of "reading thousands of books, walking thousands of miles, and seeing thousands of objects" as well as participating in the planning of many high-quality cultural relics exhibitions. Through "words and cultural relics", "corridors and routes", and "intersections and centers", the author reflects on the unique heights that Chinese civilization has reached after diversity and collision, and understands the implicit or explicit civilizational connections between the ancient Eurasian countries and ancient China. It not only provides intellectual enlightenment for the radiation of the crossroads civilization circle, but also proves once again that cultural exchanges are the inevitable journey of mankind on the road to civilization.