PeachBlossomGoddess

No need at all, you were trying to help me and now we all know which one he is.

Or the brightest moon of Chang'an gets drunk/high on the strongest wine of the grassland...

I know red is now associated with communism in China but I would like to point out that centuries before China became communist, Chinese love red, it has been their favourite lucky colour for much longer than the 100 years the CCP was founded.

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Glad to see you wrote this - I really did not like the last arc either.

That's the thing about Chinese history - I feel like I barely scratch the surface of the best known emperors only to discover so, so many more interesting emperors... Anyway I use the excuse of every drama to google away...

No, its me bad I googled the wrong, more well known Xuanzong 玄宗. As per @Alex, it is actually Xuānzong 宣宗 whom I have not much come across. Qin Dynasty Epic features Qin Shihuangdi with a giant topographic map across the floor in his throne room as well that he stalks across planning battles to unite the warring states.

LOL - will do tyvm :)

Ah ok, tyvm for your good work and for the heads up - I will not abandon the show if the ending is that good. I probably won't have time to read the book faster than the drama is airing anyway. I will just try to get my hands on a print version to read later bc the computer is killing my eyes.

Ah, ok that makes a lot more sense, no wonder nothing fit into what I was looking up. I have not come across this emperor before... Tyvm, I can even find stuff on the eunuchs.

Oh - why only 51? Is it incomplete? Do you have a link?

Is it good? My PTR list is way worse than my PTW list I think I need to live another 100 years to read everything I plan to...

Well he became indifferent towards the end (Yang Guifei was one of the 4 great beauties after all) and his reign was tainted by the An Lushan rebellion. His son Suzong succeeded him shortly after that. Interestingly the eunuchs became super powerful during Suzong's reign and we seem to be seeing the beginnings of that in this show. That is why I am confused about when this story is set. I guess its a more fictionalized account so they just may be taking a lot of liberties with historical facts. The dead giveaway to that is of course how they kind of shy away from naming him specifically.

Yes but he was the longest reigning (over 40 years) and got tired and cynical at the end, just wanted to retire to the mountains with his young beauty. Longest Day kind of deals with those themes during his sunset years. This show seems to be more focused on his earlier reign, possibly closer to his ascension given where the plot is going. I just couldn't find anything on misbehaving eunuchs but he was there for such a long time, it is hard to search for it.

So this Tang emperor is Xuanzong of Yang Guifei fame - the same one in Longest Day of Changán. His ascent to the throne was messy to say the least.

Geez I wish I didn't c this... I am already on the verge of dropping...

Well if its any consolation, that may explain why he looked so pissed off and ready to explode at the enemy every time... LOL.

I think the story ended where it should. The best dramas always end with us wishing for more and that is where this one stopped.

Yeah one of Li Shimin/Taizong's great achievements was he stabilized most of the borders - no one advanced or retreated but there was a peace. I think this show is only about the Eastern Turkish border, the Western borders were still unstable. It took him most of his reign to get it all done. Until of course the mongols came along another couple hundred years later to overrun China.

Yups, they went back to a truce, I didn’t s anyone surrendered. That is also consistent with history.