Interesting historical facts about the Tang Dynasty

Mondo History Updated on 2024-03-01

Many people think that Kaiyuan Tongbao is the year name money, it is the year name of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the coins minted in the Kaiyuan period, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji has an era name is Kaiyuan, but this is wrong. Kaiyuan Tongbao is not the year money, it has been cast in the early years of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, it was inscribed by Ouyang Xun himself, Ouyang Xun is a figure in the early Tang Dynasty, and Li Longji was born in the Tang Dynasty, the two lived more than 100 years apart, from the age of speaking, Ouyang Xun could not give Li Longji's coinage inscription. And Li Longji's designation of the era as Kaiyuan is purely coincidental. To add another point, the five-baht coin was used from the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. Later, the minting of Kaiyuan Tongbao replaced the five-baht coin, which had been used for hundreds of years.

Now our country will send giant pandas to other countries, and China's first panda diplomacy took place during the Tang Dynasty. In 685 AD, Empress Wu presented a pair of giant pandas and several panda skins to Emperor Tenmu.

During the Tang Dynasty, people did not use paper after going to the toilet, of course, not by hand, but with bamboo sticks. This is not the pointed one used in the barbecue, but it is scraped very delicately with bamboo, and this is used after the work, which is also called a toilet chip, and the used one is not thrown away, and the brush is used directly. How convenient it is for people to use paper now!

Nowadays, people hoard gold as hard currency, because it is transparent and can appreciate in value, while people in the Tang Dynasty hoarded pepper. Because at that time pepper was a luxury, very little. It's not like now, you can put some on every meal. In the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, the Tang Dynasty ordered to copy Yuan Zai's home, and found 800 stone pepper, and the court was shocked.

Historical records record that Li Yuan had three breasts, which may be the physical vision of the ancient founding emperor.

Li Yuan has three breasts, Ren Gong was born in Chang'an, his body has three breasts, his sex is wide and benevolent, and he was named Tang Gong. - New Tang Dynasty Book

The work with the largest number of existing words in Tang poetry is the late Tang poet Wei Zhuang's "Qin Women's Yin". There are 238 sentences and 1666 words, which is the first long Tang poem. As a comparison, Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" has 840 words, which is equivalent to two long hate songs. Thankfully, it wasn't written into the textbook.,This thing makes people memorize.。。。

It is known that the eldest son of Tang Taizong Li Shimin is Li Chengqian (the former prince was later deposed), and the third son of Wu King Li Ke ......But few people know about his second son, Li Kuan.

During the Tang Xuanzong period, there was a champion named Li Ang, and then Tang Wenzong's original name was Li Han, and later changed his name to Li Ang.

Li Tang is a descendant of the surname Li of Xiliang, the fifth ancestor of Li Hu is Li Hui, the Taizu of Xiliang, and then the flying general Li Guang is found above, and then the Laozi Li Er is found above.

The lychee eaten by Yang Guifei is theoretically from Sichuan.

Zhang Changyi is the younger brother of Wu Zetian's famous male favorite Zhang Yizhi, he has been doing the business of selling officials and lords by virtue of his brother's power, and the business is booming, and those who want to be officials are looking for him to clear the way. There was a person surnamed Xue who went to buy an official for fifty taels of gold, Zhang Changyi agreed to come down, but when he went to the servant of the ministry to ask for an official position, he forgot the name of that person, and only remembered the surname Xue. It stands to reason that this deal should have been blown up, who let that person not have an impressive name. As a result, this Zhang Changyi was really interesting, and all the people surnamed Xue on the list were awarded official positions. While.

In the Tang Dynasty, your brother can't be called brother, and your father can't be called master.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were many black people, known as Kunlun Nu, who were not from Africa, but from present-day Southeast Asia.

Old Tang Book] recorded: ".From the south of Lam Yi (today's central Vietnam), all of them had curly hair and black bodies, and their common name was Kunlun

In other words, during the Tang Dynasty, Kunlun Nu referred to most of the "Malays" living in Southeast Asia.

Tang Dynasty office workers had more than 100 days of vacation a year, which was ridiculously cool compared to other dynasties.

Compared with the frequent palace coups in the first half of the Tang Dynasty, successive emperors succeeded to the throne abnormally, but several emperors of the Middle Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne surprisingly "obeying the rules". After Suzong took advantage of the chaos to ascend the throne on his own, Daizong, Dezong, Shunzong, Xianzong, Muzong, and Jingzong, six successive generations of emperors were all eldest sons to succeed to the throne. This kind of succession of six consecutive generations of primogeniture is rare in Chinese history. However, the stability of the succession to the throne does not mean that the country is stable, during this period, the eunuch dictatorship, the Niu and Li party disputes, the division of local feudal towns, and the accelerated decline of the Tang Dynasty, which is no longer prosperous.

The princes and princesses of the Tang Dynasty did not care if the emperor was called "father", but "father", and the prince was not called "prince", but "uncle", and the ministers and people called the emperor not "emperor", but "everyone" or "Your Majesty".

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was able to preserve the world, and Suiyang held on for 10 months and went through 400 battles. After the city was broken, "everyone knew that they would die, and there were no traitors, and there were only 400 people left."

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