The Character of the Tang Dynasty

Datang, a name that Chinese people have chanted for thousands of years. But the Tang Dynasty in textbooks is too far away, and the Tang Dynasty in storytelling is too legendary. The real Tang Dynasty is more exciting than stories and more complicated than legends. What "The Character of the Tang Dynasty" wants to do is to tell the story of the three hundred years of events from beginning to end in vernacular that you can understand. This book begins with the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when Li Yuan and his son launched an army in Taiyuan, and ends with Zhu Wen's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty. In the middle, the rule of Zhenguan, a generation of empresses, and the prosperous Kaiyuan era. It also witnesses the Anshi Rebellion, the separatist regime of vassal towns, and the Niu-Li party struggle. Emperors and generals, literati and warriors, concubines in the harem, eunuchs and traitors all appeared one by one. Their ambitions, strategies, glory and tragedies constituted this living history of the rise and fall of the empire. The writing is all based on official history - "Zizhi Tongjian", "Old Tang Book", "New Tang Book" and various Tang Dynasty legal notes. Every key event and every dialogue between characters in the book has historical records and is never fabricated or made up out of thin air. In order to make history no longer blurry, we will dismantle the intrigues in the court into workplace games, restore the fighting on the battlefield into a life-and-death gamble, and analyze the emperor's decisions into the gains and losses of ordinary people. Not pretentious, not boring, not pretentious. History is serious, but the way it is told can make people laugh and then think in silence. Opening this book, you will find that the Tang Dynasty is not only poetry and distance, but also intrigues, blood, tears, and countless real choices that are stranger than novels when standing at crossroads. History has never looked better, and never been more real.