In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

The first known book on cards called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties.

Chinese culture flourished and further matured during the Tang era ; it is considered the greatest age for Chinese poetry.

The 7th century and first half of the 8th century is generally considered the zenith era of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) capital at Chang ' an was the most thriving metropolis of China in its day, it was the city of Yangzhou — in proximity to the Grand Canal — that was the economic hub of the Tang era.

The Song judicial system retained most of the legal code of the earlier Tang Dynasty, the basis of traditional Chinese law up until the modern era.

The Christian sect of Nestorianism — which had entered China in the Tang era — would also be revived in China under Mongol rule.

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms () was between 907 – 960 / 979 AD and an era of political upheaval in China, between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the founding of the Song Dynasty.

With the fall of the Song dynasty in 1279, and the subsequent dislocation caused by the establishment of the Yuan dynasty by the Mongol conquerors, many court and literary artists retreated from social life, and returned to nature, through landscape paintings, and by renewing the " blue and green " style of the Tang era.

* Li Fuguo: The Tang eunuch who began another era of eunuch rule

While Chinese boats continued traveling to Japan, Ryukyu, and many location in South-East Asia both before and after the Yongle era, Zheng He's expeditions were China's only major sea-going explorations of the world ( although the Chinese may have been sailing to Arabia, East Africa, and Egypt since the Tang Dynasty, from AD 618 – 907 or earlier ).

Lyric poetry advanced far more in China than in Europe prior to 1000, as multiple new forms developed in the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties: perhaps the greatest poets of this era in Chinese literature were Li Bai and Du Fu.

* An ( 安 ), Chinese name of the Arsacid Empire during the Han era and that of Sogdiana during the Tang era

The blades of Tang era dao are reminiscent of the Japanese chokuto or the popular image of the perhaps-mythical ninjato.

Chang ' an never recovered after the apex of the Tang dynasty, but there are still some monuments from the Tang era that are still standing.

A Tang era gilding | gilt hexagon al silver plate with a Fei Lian beast pattern, found from a 1970 excavation in Xi ' an.

A Tang era gilding | gilt-silver ear cup with flower design, found from a 1970 excavation in Xi ' an.

* A mansion bestowed by the emperor to An Lushan ( who became the most infamous rebel during the Tang era ) in 750 that was converted into a Buddhist abbey after his demise.

By the Tang era it had become a time of baudy celebration, feasting, wine drinking, and writing poetry.

A large number of the caves were constructed at Mogao during this era, including the two large statues of Buddha at the site, the largest one constructed in 695 following an edict a year earlier by Tang Empress Wu Zetian to build giant statues across the country.

A Tang period gilding | gilt-silver jar, shaped in the style of northern nomad's leather bag decorated with a domestication of the horse | horse dancing with a cup of wine in its mouth, as the horses of Emperor Xuanzong were trained to do.

A Tang period gilding | gilt-silver jar, shaped in the style of northern nomad's leather bag decorated with a domestication of the horse | horse dancing with a cup of wine in its mouth, as the horses of Emperor Xuanzong were trained to do.

A Chinese Tang Dynasty tricolored Ceramic glaze | glaze porcelain horse ( ca.

Image: Sun Quan Tang. jpg | Emperor Sun Quan in the Thirteen Emperors Scroll and Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classic Texts, by Yan Liben ( c. 600-673 AD ), Chinese

Image: Spring Outing of the Tang Court. jpg | Spring Outing of the Tang Court, by Zhang Xuan, 8th century, Chinese

Image: T ' ang Yin 003. jpg | Tang Yin, A Fisher in Autumn, ( 1523 ), Chinese

Emperor Taizong of Tang | Emperor Taizong ( r. 626 – 649 ) receives Ludongzan, ambassador of Tibet, at his court ; painted in 641 AD by Yan Liben ( 600 – 673 )

Portrait painting of Emperor Yang of Sui, commissioned in 643 by Emperor Taizong of Tang | Taizong, painted by Yan Liben ( 600 – 673 )

Tang statue of a civil official dressed in Han Chinese clothing | Hanfu, made of sancai glazed earthenware ; he wears a tall hat, wide-sleeved outer garment tied at the waist with a wide belt, and rectangular " kerchief " in front.

Part of the scroll for Admonitions Scroll | Admonitions of the Instructress to the Palace Ladies, probably a Tang Dynasty copy of the original by Gu Kaizhi

A Chinese Tang Dynasty tri-color Ceramic glaze | glaze d porcelain horse ( ca.

Image: Hangan02. jpg | A Man Herding Horses, by Han Gan ( 706 – 783 AD ), Tang Dynasty original.

File: Anonymous-Bodhisattva Leading the Way. jpg | Tang Dynasty painting from Dunhuang.

Mural from the tomb of the prince Li Xian ( Tang Dynasty prince ) | Zhanghuai, 706 AD.

The Diamond Sutra of the China | Chinese Tang Dynasty, the oldest dated printed book in the world, found at Dunhuang, from 868 CE.

The earliest illustration of a bonsai ( penjing ) is found in the Qianling Mausoleum murals at the Tang Dynasty tomb of Li Xian ( Tang Dynasty prince ) | Crown Prince Zhanghuai, dating to 706.

Seated Buddha, from the Chinese Tang dynasty, Hebei | Hebei province

que ( tower ) | Que towers along the walls of Tang Dynasty | Tang-era Chang ' an, as depicted in this 8th-century mural from Li Chongrun's ( 682 – 701 AD ) tomb at the Qianling Mausoleum in Shaanxi

Tang Dynasty | Tang Period ( 618-907 ) Buddhist sutra fragment from Dunhuang

In the Tang Dynasty houses of pleasure, where drinking games were common, small puppets in the aspect of Westerners, in a ridiculous state of drunkenness, were used in one popular permutation of the drinking game ; so, in the form of blue-eyed, pointy nosed, and peak-capped barbarians, these puppets were manipulated in such a way as to occasionally fall down: then, whichever guest to whom the puppet pointed after falling was then obliged by honor to empty his cup of Chinese wine.

The lid on the new smaller plastic container acts as a measuring cup which may be used to make one or two quart quantities, the same as the original Tang.