The Northern Song sculptures of the early period were rather coarsely carved, similar to Tang Dynasty style. Beginning from the middle period of the Song Dynasty, the sculptings become more and ...

In the ensuing 160 years and more, Kaifeng remained the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was one of the largest and most prosperous metropolises in the world. Speaking of important figures in ...

In the Tang Dynasty it was common practice to erect inscribed ... in works and collections of epigraphic specialists of the Song and later dynasties. In recent years more steles have been ...

The Cold Food Festival in his honour was inspired by his death The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as ...

and the rise of the Tang dynasty. The third phase - which ran from 950 and 1300 - closely matches the rise of the Song dynasty and its slow decline until it was finished off by the Mongols.

He was well known in his day, and made friends with other poets such as Li Bai, another famous poet in the Tang dynasty ... of hundred years later in the Song Dynasty was he acclaimed as a ...

This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this land. Narrator: The Shang dynasty was located near the Yellow River. The river made the land good for ...