At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in harmony. In 6 17, Tang Guogong Li Yuan launched Jinyang mutiny, and proclaimed himself emperor in Chang 'an the following year, establishing the Tang Dynasty. Because the royal family is surnamed Li, it is also called Li. After Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, he initiated the rule of Zhenguan, and Tang Gaozong inherited the legacy of Zhenguan and initiated the rule of Yonghui. Later, Wu Zetian once took the title of Tang Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty, and after the Dragon Revolution, she resumed the title of Datang. After Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, he made great efforts to govern, creating a prosperous new century with economic prosperity, four foreigners serving guests and all the people coming to Korea. At the end of Tianbao, the national population reached 80 million. After the Anshi Rebellion, the vassal and eunuch forces gradually declined, and in the middle and late period they were revived by the rule of Yuan and Zhongxing, Huichang and Dazhong. The Huang Chao Uprising in 878 destroyed the ruling foundation of the Tang Dynasty. In 907, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, which perished, and China entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
The Tang Dynasty is the largest and only unified Central Plains dynasty without the Great Wall. The territory of the Tang Dynasty surpassed that of modern China in both the west and the north. After the attack of the East Turkistan and Xue Yantuo in the Tang Dynasty, the Emperor of Heaven was honored as the Tiankhan by the four clans, and recruited the Turks, Uighurs, Tiele, Qidan, Mohong, Shiwei and other nationalities to attack the enemy countries through the detention system, and let Nanzhao, Silla, Bohai Sea, Japan and other vassal countries learn their own culture and politics.
In the Tang Dynasty, science, technology, culture, economy and art were diversified, and a large number of famous poets and painters emerged, such as Li Bai, poet Du Fu, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan, painters Wu Daozi and Li Sixun, and musician Li Guinian. The culture of the Tang Dynasty was eclectic, accepted the exchange and study of people from all over the world, and formed an open international culture.
The Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire at that time were tied as the most powerful empires in the world, and their reputation spread far and wide overseas, and they had contacts with Asian and European countries. After the Tang Dynasty, many overseas people called China a Tangren.