Tang Dynasty
When
-began june 18 618 and ended june 1 907.
-Was founded by the Li family who gained power at the collapse at Sui empire.
-The Tang dynasty was an imperial dynasty of china.
Where
- The capital chang’an was the most populous city in the world.
- In china the tang dynasty was considered a high point of the china civilization.
- It was considered to possibly even pass the Han dynasties accomplishments.
Key people
- Li Yuan- formed the tang dynasty
- He united china and adopted Buddhism
- Arab traders introduced islam to china and Wang Wei
- Wang Wei- was a poet and painter he also created pure landscape stule of painting
- Wu Daozi- was an artist who was famous for initiating new myths in his artwork.
- Du FU- Chinese poet
- Wu Zetian- was an empress she became the only empress regnant ruling in her own right.
- Li Shimin – second emperor of the tang dynasty
Before the Tang
- There was one before called Sui dynasty
- Tang took control when the Sui was collapsing.
End of the tang
- Around 907
- End started during emperor xizongs reign when the notable huang chao uprising broke out.
- Another reason for the fall was because of the Shi Rebellion.
Loss of power
- Main reason for collapse was rebellion
- Rebellion destroyed the prosperity of the empire
- Up til then the tang dynasty had few conflics or rebellion issues so this came as shock t omost of the empire.
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Tang dynasty art
- Calligraphy was the form
- Paintings were placed on Chinese wall fans
- Used painting til paper was invented
- Primary source of painting was the landscape
- Distances in painting were blurred and mountians were faded
- Shanshui means water mountains painting.
Sung art
- Artist made paintings that people could gaze at
- Aimed to collect the animals emotions in paintings
- Needed inspiration so took other artist ideas
- Landscape paintings were very big.
Poetry for the tang dynasty
- From 618 to 907 ad
- The song dynasty got their poetry from tang dynasty.
- Two types. Short ream and slow song.
Tang and sung trade
- Prospered for trade.
- Received from west
- Were heavily influenced by western trade
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