Cui Zhiyuan came to China in 880 AD, when the dynasty was the last year of the Tang Dynasty. In 880 AD, Cui Zhiyuan from the Korean Peninsula came to Yangzhou. He worked in Huainan and returned to Yangzhou in 884 AD, leaving behind the story of Yangzhou. He became the most outstanding Silla writer who came to China in the late Tang Dynasty and a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. His body is still preserved in Yangzhou. There is a historical exhibition hall of "Silla Friendly Ambassadors-Cui Zhiyuan and Yangzhou" in Tang Cheng Site, Yangzhou. At present, there are more than 2 million clansmen in Cui Shi, South Korea, and the Central Clan Association in Gyeongju, South Korea held a sacrificial ceremony in Yangzhou Historical Materials Exhibition Hall. At present, Yang Hou has established the Sino-Korean Culture and Cui Zhiyuan Research Center. In 2006,1100,000 Koreans visited Jiangsu. It is understood that there are about 2 million descendants of Cui Shi, and they all hope to visit Yangzhou one after another. Yangzhou has established friendly relations with three cities including Longren, South Korea.

It is understood that Cui Zhiyuan, a Silla native aged 12, entered the Tang Dynasty to study a thousand years ago. Tang Xizong was a scholar in the first year of Ganfu, and later served as governor in Yangzhou. He served as a secretary for five years and was called "Hou Wenchang". In the first year of Guangqi, Tang Xizong promised him to return to China as an envoy of the Tang Dynasty. After returning to China, Cui Zhiyuan spread the culture of the Tang Dynasty to South Korea, and was known as "the father of oriental literature" and "the saint of Silla culture". In South Korea, there are 2 million descendants of Cui Shi.

On June, 5438 +65438 10+9: 00 in May, 2003, the descendants of Cui Shi, the Central Committee of Cui Shi in Gyeongju, South Korea, made a special trip to Yangzhou to hold a ceremony in the Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall of Yangzhou Tang Cheng Site Museum to pay a grand tribute to Wenchang Hou Cui Zhiyuan.

The most famous poets in the late Tang Dynasty were Li Shangyin and Du Mu.