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According to Chinese historians, the Tang dynasty (618-907) was like the best, most powerful and most expanding dynasty of the whole Chinese history.
Even now China says they will expand to the world during this 21st century, and as a phrase to explain this situation they say: Tang dynasty will be revived.
Tang dynasty was the arch rival of the Göktürks (1s Turkic Reich) and known to have efficiently divided them and destroyed their Kaghanate.
The interesting thing, the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune is that the founder of the Tang dynasty, man known as Li Yuan, was a Chinese person of mixed Turkic-Sinic origins.
Li family was originally Turkic but then they mixed with Han Chinese people and assimilated into them. And later they became their ruling leader after overthrowing the Sui dynasty.
The Imperial Capitals of China: An Inside View of the Celestial Empire
By Arthur Cotterell
p.108
Chinese people used to worship their emperors. Chinese emperors were like semi-deities for Chinese people. We must not forget this, becoming Sinic emperor had a high status.
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