Contents: The Tang and Song dynasties, spanning more than 600 years from the 8th to the 13th century, saw a period of great economic and cultural development in Chinese society. During this golden ...

He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang ... poetry, but it was not until a couple of hundred years later in the Song Dynasty ...

The Tang dynasty (618–907) is known as the golden age of Chinese literature. Its poems typically have eight lines of five or seven syllables each, following strict tonal patterns and parallel ...