Sunday, May 12, 2013

Tang Taizong (唐太宗),


Tang Taizong, who reigned from 626 to 649 AD, is generally regarded to be one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. Was he really a Han Chinese?

Some have argued that he was 3/4 Xianbei (), which is a sub-tribe of Donghu (), who were really the Steppe people.

You may want to follow the thread in the following weblink.

http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/1614-on-the-ethnicity-of-the-sui-and-tang-emperors

But does it really matter?

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