Tang Poetry 300 Selections - Illustrated Version: Illustrated Version

Author: Zhang Shuheng
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The brilliance of Tang poetry reflects the high prosperity of the Tang Dynasty's socio-economy. Nearly half of the nearly 300 years of Tang history saw continuous economic growth, which drove cultural development. The gradual integration of various ethnic minorities who entered the Central Plains during the period of the Five Dynasties and Sixteen Kingdoms with the Han nationality, along with the increasing prosperity of international cultural exchanges, coupled with the lively and less restrained thinking and behavior of the Tang people, who were open to various ideologies and cultures, all provided an excellent social environment for the development of poetry.