Although the codification of law was largely completed by the Tang Code of CE 624, throughout the centuries the Confucian foundations of the Tang Code were retained, and indeed with some aspects of it strengthened by the later dynasties.

The History of Ming states that as early as 1364 Zhu Yuanzhang had begun drafting a new Confucian law code, the Da Ming Lü, which was completed by 1397 and repeated certain clauses found in the old Tang Code of 653.

The first permanent system of codified laws could be found in China, with the compilation of the Tang Code in AD 624.

Five men swore that the girl was never free before enslavement, since The Tang Code forbade commoners to be sold as slaves.

# Tang Shiu Kin Hall ( Code: TH )

Ch ' ü T ' ung-tsu has shown that the " Confucianisation " of Chinese law was a slow process and that the amalgamation of the Confucian views of society with the law codes was completed only in the great Tang Code of CE 624.

The original Tang Code was promulgated in 624, by the founding Emperor ( Gaozu ) of the Tang Dynasty.

It was endowed with a commentary, known as Tanglu Shuyi, incorporated in 653, the fourth year of the reign of Perpetual Splendour, as part of the Tang Code of Perpetual Splendour.

The Tang Code was based on the Code of Northern Zhou ( Bei Zhou Lu, 557-581 ), promulgated 89 years earlier in 564, which was in turn based on the earlier, less comprehensive and less elaborate Code of Cao Wei ( Cao Wei Lu, 220-265 ) and the Code of Western Jin ( Xi Jin Lu, 265-317 ) promulgated almost four centuries earlier in 268.

Under the supervision of Tang Confucian minister Fang Xuanling, 500 sections of ancient laws were compiled into 12 volumes in the Tang Code, titled:

The Tang Code lists the five forms of corporal punishment for serfs as:

Although fragments of laws survive from the Qin and Han, the first surviving complete code was the Kaihuang Code developed during the Sui Dynasty and adopted by later dynasties including the Tang in 653.

The Tang Code () was a penal code that was established and used during the Tang Dynasty in China.

Considered as one of the greatest achievements of traditional Chinese law, the Tang Code is also the earliest Chinese Code to have been transmitted to the present in its complete form.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

The oldest extant Chinese star chart dates to the Tang period and was preserved as part of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

This economic phenomenon was a slow and gradual process that took place from the late Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) into the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Tang Dynasty was founded by Emperor Gaozu on June 18, 618.

Underlying the prosperity of the early Tang Dynasty was a strong centralized bureaucracy with efficient policies.

The emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu, and Huang established a new temporary regime which was eventually destroyed by Tang forces.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

It was created by the Hui people during the Tang Dynasty of China.

Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.

The Battle of Talas in 751 CE was a conflict between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty over the control of Central Asia.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

Tsai Chin was Fu Manchu's daughter, Lin Tang in the five Christopher Lee films of the 1960s.

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.

Japan was invading China at the time, and Funakoshi knew that the art of Tang / China hand would not be accepted ; thus the change of the art's name to " way of the empty hand.

* In China, Guanshiyin was changed to Guanyin due to the unacceptability of the original under the naming taboo of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, whose personal name was Li Shimin ( contains the Chinese character shi 世 ).

One of the masters of the form was Du Fu, who wrote during the Tang Dynasty ( 8th century ).

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.

The placement of the Tang as the beginning of the bureaucratic phase rests largely on the imperial examination system which finally overcame the nine-rank system ; prior to this both systems were in use.

* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang ' an, a large fire consumes 4, 000 homes, warehouses, and other buildings in the East Market, yet the rest of the city is at a safe distance from the blaze ( which is largely quarantined in East Central Chang ' an thanks to the large width of roads in Chang ' an that produce fire breaks ).

The Tang Dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability, except during the An Shi Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the latter half of the dynasty.

While most of the Tang army was made of fubing Chinese conscripts, the majority of the troops led by Turkic generals were of non-Chinese origin, campaigning largely in the western frontier where the presence of fubing troops was low.

Tang gathered about 100, 000 soldiers, largely untrained, including Chinese troops who had participated in the Battle of Shanghai.

Chiang's faith in Tang was due largely to Tang's participation in the Central Plains War in 1927, in which he led his forces into Hunan in support of the Nationalists.

Through these political establishments, the Xianbei who entered China were largely merged with the Han, examples such as the wife of Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Duchess Dou and Emperor Taizong of Tang's ( Li Shimin's ) wife, Empress Zhangsun, both have Xianbei ancestries, while those who remained behind in the northern grassland emerged as later powers to rule over China.

Although the game is still occasionally referred to in some historical sources and in poetry as late as the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ), it seems that Liubo had been largely displaced by the game of Go.

Neo-Confucianism was largely a reaction to Buddhism's dominance in the Tang dynasty, and an attempt at developing a native Confucian metaphysical / analytical system.

Beginning with a revolt against the Umayyad Caliphate, largely centered in Khurasan, not too far from Talas, the rising Abbasid Caliphate decisively defeated the rival Umayyad Caliphate, in the Battle of the Zab, in 750, which thus freed up their armies for other purposes, one of which would be challenge the Tang expansion into the region.

Further, after the ethnic Han Chinese Zhang Yichao seized control of the Hexi Corridor from Tufan officials and submitted to Emperor Xuānzong in 851, Tang had largely reversed the losses to Tufan.

The city, and the palace grounds, was based largely on Chang ' an ( present-day Xi ' an ), the capital of China during the Tang Dynasty, which was contemporary to the time when Nara was capital of Japan.

While most of the Tang army was made of fubing Chinese conscripts, the majority of the troops led by Turkic generals were of non-Chinese origin, campaigning largely in the western frontier where the presence of fubing troops was low.

Pugu, believing he was facing defeat, took his troops, largely from Shuofang Circuit ( 朔方, headquartered in modern Yinchuan, Ningxia ), back to its headquarters at Lingwu and dug in there ; he thereafter remained a threat to the Tang imperial government, although Emperor Daizong, still hoping that he would resubmit, never formally declared him a renegade, and when Pugu's mother, who did not follow him to Lingwu, died, he buried her with honors.

Their power and influence eclipsed that of the hereditary and largely military aristocrats after the Tang dynasty, for by the Song Dynasty the civil service exam replaced the nine-rank system which favored nobles.

The work was begun at the request of Emperor Mommu and, like many other developments in the country at the time, it was largely an adaptation of the governmental system of China's Tang Dynasty.