Xi＇an： A Poetic City with Cultural Richness

Over the sweep of Chinese history, the Tang Empire has been widely recognized as a most powerful and prosperous era, with an open and all-inclusive attitude toward foreign culture and traditions, The Tang Dynasty is commonly hailed as the golden age for poetry. Numerous poems created in this period of time reflect social realities and daily lives of ordinary people, witnessing artistic pursuits of elite scholars and demonstrating unprecedented prosperity of this great empire.