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The Yuanhe Maps and Records of Prefectures and Counties (simplified Chinese: 元和郡县图志; traditional Chinese: 元和郡縣圖志; pinyin: Yuánhé jùn xiàn tú zhì; Wade–Giles: Yüan-he chün hsien t'u chih) compiled by Li Jifu during the Yuanhe reign of the Tang dynasty is one of the earliest and most complete gazetteers of China.
The map of China is surrounded by blocks of texts, which references back to the Tang dynasty map of Jia Dan (scholar and cartographer) called Hainei Huayi Tu (Map of China and the Barbarian Countries within the Seas) presented to Emperor Dezong of Tang in 801. [7] The later Huayi Tu map covers China during the Jin and Southern Song dynasty. The ...
During the Tang dynasty, Jia Dan improved the knowledge of China on foreign countries. He wrote a number of works on geography that described foreign states and trade routes, as well as producing a map Hainei Huayi Tu (海内華夷圖, "Map of Chinese and non-Chinese Territories in the World"). [8] [9] The map includes China and other known ...
Song dynasty, Liao dynasty and Jin Empire; Yuan dynasty and Ming dynasty; Qing dynasty; On each map, ancient places and water features are shown in black and blue respectively, superimposed on modern features, borders and claims, shown in brown. All country-wide maps, from Paleolithic onward, include an inset showing the nine-dash line in the ...
The Tang dynasty (/ t ɑː ŋ /, [6]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period .
A Tang dynasty tomb decorated with colorful murals is providing a new glimpse into daily life in China during the 8 th century. Most interestingly, the murals show signs of Western influence ...
Date: 7 May 2023: Source: Own work. Boundaries from Twitchett, Denis and Wechsler, Howard J. (1979), "Kao-tsung (reign 649–83) and the Empress Wu: The Inheritor and the Usurper", in Denis Twitchett and John Fairbank (eds.), The Cambridge History of China, Volume 3: Sui and T'ang China, 589–906, Part I, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-21446-9, Maps 8 (p. 281) and 9 (p. 283).
The Tang dynasty and inspection circuits (道 dào) in 742, according to The Cambridge History of China Tang dynasty territory and its changes throughout history. The Tang dynasty of China administered territory using a hierarchical system of three descending divisions: circuits (dào 道), prefectures (zhōu 州), and counties (xiàn 縣).