Tang dynasty -we are part turks?
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The T'ang dynasty was the most militarily powerful of all the dynasties. It expanded the Chinese empire across the Great Wall of China and beyond the Himalayas. At its height, it administered much of present-day China and exerted control or received tributes from a dozen other kingdoms, including those in Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia and most of Southeast Asia.
The
Tang didn’t build walls. They were skilled at dealing with the Central
Asian tribes that challenged them, knowing when to use diplomacy and
when to go to war. The fact they were part Turkish, the ethnicity of
many of the Central Asian tribes that threatened them, also helpedThe
Tangs ruled with a pyramidal administration system consisting of the
Emperor, and three main ministries at the top. Underneath them were
nine courts and six advisory boards. To discourage warlordism and
establish regional power bases, China itself was broken down into 300
prefectures and 1,500 counties, a system which persists to this day. -
The Tang emperors were known for their openness to new ideas about art, religion, philosophy and music that were brought in by foreigners who flowed into China along the Silk Road trade routes. Unlike most Chinese dynasties which tried to cut off their empire from influences from the outside world, the Tang ruling families tolerated outsiders and members of variety of religious sects.
Taoists,
Confucian scholars, Nestorian Christian missionaries, Zoroastrian
priests and Buddhist monks, among them ones who helped found Zen
Buddhism in Japan, all felt comfortable in Tang era China and practiced
and to certain degrees proselytized their religions.New
inventions from the T'ang dynasty included the magnetic compass,
gunpowder, the abacus, printing, and cataract surgery. Silks, porcelain
and art were traded for spices, ivory and other goods along the Silk
Road caravan routes. Sea routes took Chinese goods as far away as
Africa and the Middle East.Cosmopolitan
culture flourished. Tens of thousands of foreigners lived in major
Chinese cities. Women held high government offices, played polo with
men and wore men’s clothes. Chinese intermarried with nomadic peoples.
Foreigners such as Turks rose to high positions in the civil service
and the military.The
economy changed a great deal in the Tang and Song dynasties, going from
what was basically a subsistence economy to one in which peasantry was
active in local and long-distance trade and non-food crops such as silk
were produced on a large scale. -
I like kebab
and watching belly dancing, if that make me part turkish I'm a happy man liao -
Look at the turkish belly dancing..does it not look like one of those royal court dances in Tang dynasty?Tang chinese very liberal during that era:)
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and the turks are they part Greek, Kurd, and Parsi.....
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Learn from Li shimin, he created an open society though amonarch so much we called ourselves tang ren!
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Originally posted by Catknight:
Learn from Li shimin, he created an open society though amonarch so much we called ourselves tang ren!
Tang ren , most likely do not have a Billions strong army like the current population of China.
at most millions ... persians army.
The more resources we people consume , the more disparity you will see.
Try doing a search on how livestock/cattle/goats/meat are produced nowadays in modern farming methods.
Then maybe you'd understand why people choosed to be vegetarians.
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Sometimes I see the PRC youngsters in my training center and wondered if they have tang bloodline bu why no tang open friendly culture leh?
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where's the poets and sweet innocent girls of tang dynasty?I can't find it on them...sigh
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Originally posted by Catknight:
Sometimes I see the PRC youngsters in my training center and wondered if they have tang bloodline bu why no tang open friendly culture leh?
They eat meat ??
probably learnt the hard way. In China it is so competitive that people were thought to have people to eat.
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where's the great philosophers and chivalry of Tang culture in them??
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Sad man..tang glory is over in PRC...just need to accept it
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When you talk about honour, chivarly and culture to these PRC people, they looked at you blankly...and I wondered are they descendents from Tang dynasty?
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Originally posted by Catknight:
where's the great philosophers and chivalry of Tang culture in them??
They made scholars "Memorize" tang poems 300 of them , must recite and understand their writer's intentions.
Scholars made to pay their way into imperial Exams for a chance to become Officials.
Unlike nowadays they make you appear on TV singing your favorite KTV songs and ask you to fill in the lyrics.
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wherer's the culture ?sad man?
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Originally posted by Catknight:
wherer's the culture ?sad man?
Culture in Singapore ??I'd remember I had a friend who made a short video clip and multimedia presentation on how our preschool children were educated, went to primary school. until graduation.
Singing the national anthem .... bla bla. national pledge.
What culture?
They didn't teach your parents to bring you to temples for the culture.
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Tang dynasty beckons awake all chinese spirit and culture!
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I wanna migrate liao....here cultural desert..with PRC FTs even worse :(
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Originally posted by Catknight:
where's the poets and sweet innocent girls of tang dynasty?I can't find it on them...sigh
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Why is fat regarded as beauty in Tang was a result of this Xianbei influence? Most nomads will regard fat as beauty. The beauties of nomadic Mongols are mostly fat women. Because of Xianbei's influence on Tang, thus Tang regarded fat as beauty." (quoted)
Fat was regarded as beauty in Tang dynasty, we have a lot in SG now , except they don't do belly dancing.They juz show off their elephant thighs while standing on the escalator wearing pleated skirts
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this is the weakness of china - always talk about past glories and does not move on. Japan is right by saying that china has alot of talents and natural resources but are too lazy/dunno how to use them. When compare to Japan, Japan lacks talents, but they are able to complement this by being hardworking. See how Japan own China in the past.
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Tang dynasty Chinese swords- the ancestor of Japanese swords
Sad when you see mainland china now, poor quality from food to housing:(
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Maybe yang guifei is plump but tang dynasty used to have the best lovers in that period of China
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Want a glimpse of Tang dynasty look at TURKEY, a vibrant nation who still retained their culture and honour!The cultural energy is lacking in modern PRC