"But for a verse — say, one by Du Fu — to endure that long, it had to weather not only the rebellion that marked his time, but also the decades of chaos following the fall of the Tang in 907, as well ...

Zhuangzi, whose given name was Zhou and courtesy name was Zixiu, was from Meng, the State of Song (now Qinglian Temple ...

Despite its might, the Tang court faced immense challenges in governing its vast territory. These extensive borders required constant defense, relying on conscripted soldiers drawn from a broad ...

Results indicated a 65 percent contraction in distribution range since the Tang Dynasty, which decreased from 169 grid units to just 59 today. The most severe decline occurred over the past century, ...

Some date back to the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE). Penned by scholars, emperors, and poets who often traveled along the Yangtze, the poems provide vivid accounts of the porpoise's presence and ...

Ancient Chinese Poems Reveal the Decline of a Critically Endangered Porpoise Over 1,400 Years Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless ...

From here, the team determined that the sharpest porpoise habitat decline occurred during the last century, between the Qing Dynasty and today. Since the Tang Dynasty, the finless porpoises’ range ...

Sightings of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from five poems written during the Tang Dynasty, combined with more recent data, represent the animal’s range during that time.

They also observed that the porpoise's range throughout the main part of the river has decreased by 33% since the Tang Dynasty, while its range among the tributaries and lakes that the Yangtze ...

This allowed the researchers to create detailed maps tracking porpoise distribution over time. The data showed a steady 33% decrease in population since the Tang Dynasty and a far sharper decline in ...