Night Songs of the Flourishing Tang

This was the best of times, an age of unparalleled splendor and glory that left posterity with the name “Tang people.” This was the worst of times, with the fires of war on all four borders and the seeds of internal strife already taking deep root in the land. Who was it that came hurtling through the sky aboard a star raft, singing night after night across these boundless mountains and fields? With a single eloquent verse, he could conjure the entire High Tang!