Double Stars Penetrate the Night: Doubts Based on the Historical Facts of the Tang Dynasty

When night fell in the Tang Dynasty, two desperate literati lit a thousand lanterns in the shadow of the great country, and used poetry and tactics to compose a tragic song of salvation for the world. They finally discovered that the only way to fight against the abyss is to become a light that cannot be swallowed up. The author uses delicate writing to describe the life changes of two scholar-bureaucrats: Du Mu and Li Shangyin. A series of plots are connected with the songs of birds and the fabric of the southern vassal state. The death of Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty, the accession of Xuanzong to the throne, the changes in the court, the fighting between parties, the battles of the vassal state, and the suffering of the people form a careful network. The form is dispersed but the spirit remains.