Xin Tang shu, "New Book of Tang" (also, Hsin T'ang shu), is a classic work of history about the Tang Dynasty edited by Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072 CE) and Song Qi (998-1061) of the Song dynasty. The emperor called for a revision of the former Book of Tang in 1044. The New Book was presented to the throne in 1060. The Tang Dynasty (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (18 June 618 – 4 June 907), lasting about three centuries, followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Song Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. ... Ouyang Xiu (Ou-Yang Hsiu) (æ陽修; 欧阳修 style name: Yongshu æ°¸å”; also known as Zuiweng é†‰ç¿ and Liuyi Jushi å…一居士) (Wade-Giles: Ouyang Hsiu) (1007 - 1072) was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. ... The Song Dynasty (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279. ... [Jiu] Tang Shu, [Old] Book of Tang (also, [Chiu] Tang shu), is the first classic work about the Tang Dynasty. ...
It was given its name "Xin" ("new") to distinguish it from its predecessor. It has been canonised as among the Twenty-Four Histories. The Twenty-Four Histories is a collection of historical books covering a period of history from 3000 B.C. to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. ...
(c.f. Chronicles of the Chinese Dynasties; Twitchett, Official History under the T'ang, 191-236)
According to the Old Book of Tang and the NewBook of Tang, he was a son of a Goguryeo leader Geolgeol Jung-sang (乞乞仲象).
The Old Book of the Tang says that he was “a variant kind of Goguryeo” (高麗別種), while the NewBook of the Tang states that he is “from the Sumo Mohe region of the former realm of Goguryeo.” New Chinese historians argue that Sumo Mohe is not a region, but an ethnic non-Korean tribe.
Old Book of the Tang described Dae Jo-yeong, the founder of Balhae, as a Goguryeo eccentric.
Her father was Wu Shihuo (武士彠) (577-635), a member of a renowned aristocratic family of Shanxi, and an ally of Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, in his conquest of power (Li Yuan was himself from a renowned aristocratic family of Shanxi).
The emperor at the time was greatly attached to a concubine from the Xiao (蕭) family, and the empress hoped that the arrival of a new beautiful concubine would divert the emperor from the concubine née Xiao.
Empress Wu died nine months later, perhaps consoled by the fact that her nephew Wu Sansi (武三思), son of her half-brother and as ambitious and intriguing as she, had managed to become the real master behind the scenes, controlling the restored emperor through his empress consort with whom he was having an affair.
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