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The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty saw the first surviving records of the chemical formula for gunpowder, the invention of gunpowder weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance.
Liu Song dynasty (宋) (420–479), a dynasty during the Southern and Northern dynasties period, also transliterated as "Sung" Song dynasty (宋) (960–1279), a dynasty split into two eras, Northern Song and Southern Song, also transliterated as "Sung"
He was the director of the Department of History and then Institute of History, Chinese Culture University. He also was the fourth president of Chinese Culture University. Sung was a famous historian especially in the field of Song Dynasty history. On 22 March 2007, Sung died in Taipei, Taiwan, from a car accident.
The History of Song with its 496 chapters is the largest of the Twenty-Four Histories. [2] It contains 47 chapters of Imperial biographies, 162 chapters covering Song dynasty records (誌; 志; Zhì), 32 chapters of tables (showing genealogy, etc.) and 255 chapters of historical biographies.
Chinese literature during the Song period contained a range of many different genres and was enriched by the social complexity of the period. Although the earlier Tang dynasty is viewed as the zenith era for Chinese poetry (particularly the shi style poetry of Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi), there were important poetic developments by famous poets of the Song era, with the flourishing of the ci form ...
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The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 710– 1368. Cambridge University Press. pp. 215– 320. ISBN 978-0-521-24331-5. Toqto'a, ed. (1343). History of Song. Vol. 37–40: Biography of Emperor Ningzong. Twitchett, Denis (2009). The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 5: The Sung dynasty and its Predecessors, 907 ...