TANG DYNASTY
The golden age of art, music, and literature
6-907 C.E.

INVENTIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS

• Tea
• Po Chu-I (poet 772-846)
• Scroll painting
• 3 doctrines (Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism)
• Gunpowder

INVENTIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS PART 2

• Civil service exams
• Brandy and whiskey
• Flamethrower
• Dance and music
• Inventions of gas cylinders

INVENTIONS/CONTRIBUTIONS PART 3

• The chain with paddles (allows water to be transferred)
• The harrow
• air conditioners
• Waterproof creams
• Dust repelling

DAILY LIFE

• Most people lived in the countryside
• Family, seasons, and crops
• Grew heat in the north and rice in the south
• Horses and oxen were rare and expensive; they mostly pulled plows
• Most of the days the peasants ate beans and little amount of vegetables

DAILY LIFE PART 2

• They owned one set of clothes and lived in a one room house of brick or dirt
• Common people knew little of art and pottery
• Good with art, social cultures, and foreign relations

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: MEDICINES

• One of there highest contributions were medicine
• Used herbs and organic materials
• One of China's most precious treasures is a medicinal book by Sun Siao

OTHER FACTS

• Another one of the highest contributions was making/discovering gunpowder
• Every scholar was required to learn poetry and calligraphy
• Wood block printing
• Study of math and law: contribution for better economy and building of china
• Ceramics and sculptures (mostly for decorations and burial tombs)

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