The Tang Dynasty (6 18-907) was a unified dynasty after the Sui Dynasty, which experienced 2/kloc-0 emperors and enjoyed the country for 289 years. It is also called, because the royal family name is Li, and it is considered as one of the most powerful times in China.
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, Emperor Tiandi was honored as Tiankhan by the four nationalities, and used the detention system to recruit Turks, Uighurs, Tiele, Qidan, Mohong and Shiwei to attack enemy countries, so that vassal countries such as Nanzhao, Silla, Bohai and Japan could learn their own culture and system.
With the diversification of science, technology, culture, economy and art in the Tang Dynasty, a large number of famous poets, such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, painters Wu Daozi and Li Sixun and musician Li Guinian, emerged. The Tang Dynasty accepted the exchange and study of various nationalities at home and abroad and formed an open international culture. ?
The Tang dynasty was the most powerful empire in the world at that time, and its reputation spread far and wide overseas, and it had contacts with Asian and European countries. After the Tang Dynasty, many overseas people called China a Tangren.
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The origin of "Tang people"
Tang people refer to Tang people. During the Tang Dynasty, China was unprecedentedly powerful and exerted great influence overseas. After the Tang Dynasty, Japanese, European, American, Southeast Asian and other overseas countries called China Tang people.
Due to the great influence of the Tang Dynasty on overseas, by the Song Dynasty, "Tang" had already become a synonym for China in southeast overseas countries. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, foreign countries called China or something related to China "Tang". Not only "Tang" is regarded as the land of "China", but China people are also called "Tang people"? .
Because there are a large number of overseas immigrants in Cantonese, this title of Tang people is especially commonly used in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and their immigrants who use Cantonese. Cantonese is nicknamed Tang dialect overseas; Chinatown, a Cantonese-speaking neighborhood in the Tang Dynasty, is now widely used by overseas Chinese. Some countries, such as Japan, still called China Tang Dynasty until modern times. It is precisely because the Tang Dynasty is a powerful and representative dynasty in the history of China that it is actually related to the cultural opening and frequent foreign exchanges in the Tang Dynasty. This Tang appellation became popular after the middle of19th century.
After the 20th century, although it is not as common as China and China, it is still used in place names of various countries, such as Chinatown. In addition, overseas Chinese are used to calling it Tang or Tangshan.
Reference Baidu Encyclopedia Tang Dynasty