Compare And Contrast Sui And Tang Empires
Chapter 10
The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755 * After the fall of the Han China was fragmented for several centuries. * China was reunified with the Sui dynasty, father and son rulers who held power from 581 until Turks from Inner Asia defeated the son * Small kingdoms of northern China and Inner Asia that had come and gone structured themselves around a variety of political ideas and institution. * People preferred having an emperor, a bureaucracy using the Chinese language, and a Confucian state philosophy. * In northern China, deserts, and steppe of Inner Asia focused on political life, commercial linkage, and a source of new ideas. * Sui’s called their capital Chang’an. * The old Han capital was in the Wei River Valley. …show more content…
Upheavals and Repression * The later years of the Tang Empire saw increasing turmoil as a result of conflict with Tibetans and Turkic Uighurs. * The Tang elites came to see Buddhism as discouragement of the Confucian idea of the family as the model for state. * Confucian scholar Han Yu wrote “Memorial on the Bone of Buddha”. * Buddhism was also attacked for encouraging women in politics. * Wu Zhao a woman, married into the imperial family, seized control of the government and declared herself emperor. * She became a Bodhisattva. As well as favored Buddhists and Daoists over Confucianism in her court and government. * People didn’t like women ruling and writers such as Yang Guifei and Bo Zhuyi. * Because of this people blamed Yang Guifei for the outbreak of the An Lushan rebellion. * Historians characterized women and unorthodox rulers as evil. * Buddhism shunned early ties, monks and nuns served relations with the secular world in search of enlightenment. * Buddhist people were exempted from
The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755 * After the fall of the Han China was fragmented for several centuries. * China was reunified with the Sui dynasty, father and son rulers who held power from 581 until Turks from Inner Asia defeated the son * Small kingdoms of northern China and Inner Asia that had come and gone structured themselves around a variety of political ideas and institution. * People preferred having an emperor, a bureaucracy using the Chinese language, and a Confucian state philosophy. * In northern China, deserts, and steppe of Inner Asia focused on political life, commercial linkage, and a source of new ideas. * Sui’s called their capital Chang’an. * The old Han capital was in the Wei River Valley. …show more content…
Upheavals and Repression * The later years of the Tang Empire saw increasing turmoil as a result of conflict with Tibetans and Turkic Uighurs. * The Tang elites came to see Buddhism as discouragement of the Confucian idea of the family as the model for state. * Confucian scholar Han Yu wrote “Memorial on the Bone of Buddha”. * Buddhism was also attacked for encouraging women in politics. * Wu Zhao a woman, married into the imperial family, seized control of the government and declared herself emperor. * She became a Bodhisattva. As well as favored Buddhists and Daoists over Confucianism in her court and government. * People didn’t like women ruling and writers such as Yang Guifei and Bo Zhuyi. * Because of this people blamed Yang Guifei for the outbreak of the An Lushan rebellion. * Historians characterized women and unorthodox rulers as evil. * Buddhism shunned early ties, monks and nuns served relations with the secular world in search of enlightenment. * Buddhist people were exempted from