The Tang Dynasty (Radio Edit)
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What Is the Story of the Tongue Dynasty?
The only woman ever to rule China, she wasn't an emperor. She actually interrupts the nice sequence of tongue dynasty emperors in 690 by proclaiming her own dynasty. And it's from this period that rice becomes the primary staple crop in China. The big divide in terms of food between north and south has always been rice and grain.
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