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The Tang Dynasty Giant Wild Goose Pagoda of Chang ' an, built in 652 AD, in modern-day Xi ' an, China.
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Tang and Dynasty
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.
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 ).
Underlying the prosperity of the early Tang Dynasty was a strong centralized bureaucracy with efficient policies.
These practices, which matured in the Tang Dynasty, were to be inherited by the later dynasties with some modifications.
From about 860, the Tang Dynasty declined due to a series of rebellions within China itself and in the former subject Kingdom of Nanzhao to the south.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.
Under the succeeding Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, Confucian ideas gained even more widespread prominence.
They were honored with the rank of a marquis thirty-five times since Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, and they were promoted to the rank of duke forty-two times from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.
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.
Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.
* The Tang Huiyao, compiled by Wang Pu, a text based on the institutional history of the Tang Dynasty.
Tang and Giant
* 803: Construction on the Leshan Giant Buddha in Tang Dynasty China is complete, after 90 years of rock-carving on a massive cliff-side.
* Construction of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an ), Tang Dynasty China, is completed in this year during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
The Leshan Giant Buddha, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century during the Tang Dynasty and looking down on the confluence of three rivers, is still the largest stone Buddha statue in the world.
The celebrity Giant Pandas Ming, Sung and Tang were among these animals but were soon returned to London to boost morale in the capital.
Tang and Wild
Wong's career took off when he directed the film Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), despite losing Alan Tang millions of invested dollars.
His next film, Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), produced by Alan Tang, a drama about aimless youth set in the early 1960s, established his trademark form: elliptically plotted mood pieces, with lush visuals and music, about the burden of memory on melancholic, misfit characters.
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda, sometimes Little Wild Goose Pagoda (), is one of two significant pagodas in the city of Xi ' an, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang ' an.
The Small Wild Goose Pagoda was built between 707 – 709, during the Tang Dynasty under Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ( r 705 – 710 ).
During the Tang Dynasty, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda stood across a street from its mother temple, the Dajianfu Temple.
Tang and Pagoda
The West Pagoda was built between 824 and 859, during the Tang Dynasty ; its original counterpart, the East Pagoda, was built at the same time, but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1833 and rebuilt in the same Tang style in 1882.
Ping Shan Heritage Trail ( 屏山文物徑 ), inaugurated on 12 December 1993, was designed to link several historic buildings and monuments owned by the Tang clan in Ping Shan ( including Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda 聚星樓 and Tang Ancestral Hall 鄧氏宗祠 ) by a 1 km trail.
The Nine Pinnacle Pagoda of Shandong, completed by 756 and crowned with an unusual set of miniature pagodas ; it is also unique for its octagonal base, which was rarely seen in Tang pagodas which often had square base plans
The 6th century Songyue Pagoda is also located here, as well as Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) pagodas within the Fawang Temple.
The Pagoda was built by Tang Yin-tung, the seventh generation ancestor, more than 600 years ago according to the genealogy of the Tang clan of Ping Shan.
Tang and Chang
* 706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang ' an.
In the east it spread along trade routes as far as Chang ' an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in China.
* 764 – Tibetan troops occupy Chang ' an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
* 742: For the municipal census of the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital city Chang ' an and its metropolitan area of Jingzhou Fu ( including small towns in the vicinity ), the New Book of Tang records that in this year there were 362, 921 registered families with 1, 960, 188 persons.
* Emperor Xuanzong of Tang forbids all commercial vendors and shops in the Chinese capital city of Chang ' an to copy and sell Buddhist sutras, so that the emperor can give the clergy of the Buddhist monasteries the sole right to distribute written sutras to the laity.
* For the municipal census of the Chinese capital city Chang ' an and its metropolitan area of Jingzhou Fu ( including small towns in the vicinity ), the New Book of Tang records that in this year there are 362, 921 registered families with 1, 960, 188 persons.
* 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 ).
* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.
* July 2 – In the early morning, Li Shimin, the future Emperor Tang Taizong of China, eliminates two of his brothers, Li Yuanji and the crown prince Li Jiancheng, in a coup d ' état at the Xuanwu Gate in Chang ' an.
* Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang ' an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government orders fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriches not only the diets of the people but also the surroundings.
* June 11 – Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang ' an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court.
* November 18 – Tibetan forces occupy the Chinese capital Chang ' an of the Tang Dynasty for 16 days.
* Near the end of the An Shi rebellion, Tibetan troops occupy Chang ' an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
* In South Central Chang ' an, the capital city of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, assassins murder Chancellor Wu Yuanheng at a city ward gate on a day just before dawn.
* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital city of Chang ' an, an imperial prince was impeached from his position by officials at court for erecting a building that obstructed a street in the northwesternmost ward in South Central Chang ' an.
* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang ' an, a powerful court eunuch orders 50 wrestlers to arrest 300 commoners over a land property dispute in Northwest Chang ' an, whereupon a riot breaks out in the streets between the grapplers and the citizens.
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