Why is the main ethnic group in our country Han? This is because there have been more than four hundred years of Han Dynasty rule in China's history, and there have been many excellent emperors, and later, many people still call themselves Han. Similarly, we all know that there are many Chinese call themselves Tang people, which is actually closely related to the prosperity of Datang. A prosperous dynasty has a very deep impact on future generations.
In history, everyone has heard of the "Tang Dynasty", and when they understand the Tang Dynasty, they all know that the Tang Dynasty was a prosperous and open country, but how open was it? If you don't have a deep understanding, you may only know that during the Tang Dynasty, there were Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, Yang Guifei... And other more famous people, in fact, there are many points worth knowing.
Tang Dynasty, from the founding of the dynasty in 618 to the fall of 907, which has experienced a total of 289 years, because the ruler's surname is Li, and it is also known as the Li Dynasty, in history, the Tang Dynasty is one of the most powerful dynasties, and it is also one of the dynasties that people most want to explore.
Li Yuan was the ancestor of Tang Gaozu, his grandfather Li Hu was one of the Eight Pillar States of Western Wei, and later posthumously awarded the title of "Duke of Tang", Li Yuan inherited the title, and later he raised an army in the name of "Zun Sui" and stayed in Chang'an, and after Chan rang "Tang" as his national name, there was Datang.
It is also worth mentioning that Li Shimin, in 626, he became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty through the change of Xuanwumen, although he once killed his own brothers, but in the history books, his reputation is still passed down through the ages, and everything is inseparable from his wise and divine rule, creating the rule of Zhenguan. Li Shimin learned the lesson of the demise of the Sui Dynasty and understood that "water can carry boats, and it can also overturn boats." "Attaches great importance to the people, stabilizes the people's hearts, and respects the customs of the border tribes, promotes great integration, and stabilizes the frontier, and is called "Great Khan" by the princes of the four sides."
It is conceivable how respected Tang Taizong was, and the monarch of the Tang Dynasty after Li Shimin was Li Zhi, who once said when he succeeded to the throne: "If there is an inconvenience to the people, it is advisable to be Chen, and those who are not exhausted are even more sealed." "During this period, the Tang Dynasty was still very prosperous and powerful, and everyone said that this had the legacy of Zhenguan, in fact, in history, it should be called "the rule of Yonghui". Later, in the hands of Wu Zetian and Li Longji, the Tang Dynasty had a prosperous era, until after the Anshi Rebellion, the Datang had a worse and worse situation.
In the prosperous period of datang, there was a situation of "all nations coming to the dynasty", and in the tang gaozong period, when the oasis boundaries of Central Asia were dominated by the Tang Dynasty, that is, the current Vietnam region, all belonged to the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, the northern territory reached the current Russian territory, the westernmost place reached Uzbekistan, the land area at that time reached 12.37 million square kilometers, and today's China is the third largest country in the world, but the current area is 9.6 million square kilometers. It is 2.77 million square kilometers less than in the Tang Dynasty. This is also enough to see how powerful and open Datang was at that time.
Speaking of the opening up of datang, I have to say that in terms of agriculture at that time, because of the open national policy and preferential treatment for the people, agriculture was very developed, the cultivated land area reached 8.55 million hectares, during the 8-year period of Tianbao, the grain stored in the official warehouse reached 9.6 million stones, and some scholars estimated that the peak population at that time reached 140 million, which were shocking facts.
The reason why Datang is so strong is because it has a good military system, there are many gods who will guard it, even if it is very open, there is no need to be afraid of the Xiongnu and other powerful countries, which is the guarantee that he can open up to the outside world.
Not only open to the inside, but also open to the outside, at that time in the Tang Dynasty culture, calligraphy, art, economy, handicrafts at that time ranked among the best in the world, many foreigners are reluctant to come to Datang, the abandoned Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty has become an important channel, Datang cloth is the envy of all countries. One of the purposes of the coming of the kingdom is to appreciate the prosperity of Datang, and if they can, when they return to China, they will also bring Datang things. People today, who have not seen Datang in person, cannot really understand how open and prosperous Datang was back then.