The Tang Dynasty was called Tang because the founding emperor Li Yuan was the Duke of Tang, and the Ming Dynasty was called Ming because Meng Yuan, who worked better than Sun and Moon, was expelled. In fact, the name "Tang" in the Tang Dynasty is not so simple.
Great China has been up and down for five thousand years. The establishment of a dynasty, the first thing is to determine the name of the country, and the Tang Dynasty is no exception. About the Tang Dynasty in history, why is it called "Tang Dynasty"?
The word "Tang" itself is a good word in our Chinese. A Tang word, the word is separated from the mouth, "Geng" means prosperity, and "mouth" means life reproduction. The word "Tang" is also said to be vast and magnificent, meaning auspicious and vast.
In addition, the ancients believed that the inheritance of dynasties came from the five elements. In the Book of Changes, the words of the Tang people are decomposed into Yuanji meaning, and Jin Mu's five elements are transported by fire, water and soil. The auspicious judgment of the Book of Changes on the Tang Dynasty is "Huang Shang Yuanji", which means that the Tang Dynasty is earth, the Sui Dynasty is fire, and the earth can cover the fire. The inheritance of Sui Dynasty by Tang Dynasty is the way of operation of the five elements.
Why did Li Yuan call the country Tang? It was also because Li Yuan wanted to prove his noble birth. Tracing back to the source, Li, a native of Longxi, was born into a family of military commanders of Li Guang, a flying general in the Western Han Dynasty, and was also a descendant of Li Xin, a famous Qin national. He even said that the royal family in the Tang Dynasty was descended from Gigi Lai II.
Li Yuan called the country "Tang" for another more important reason. The legendary ancient tribe was named Tao, the tribal leader was Yao, and the land where Li Yuan set out to enrich the country was the land of the tribe.
After Yao, Shun and Yu, the King of Wu cut Zhou and named his brother "Tang Shuyu". In Jinyang, it is also the enfeoffment of Tang Shuyu. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he went to Li Yuan, where he was also named King of the Tang Dynasty by Emperor Yangdi.
It can be seen that the name "Tang" has fortune, geomantic omen and artificial words in the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization, and it is not a name casually named by Tang Yuan. During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty in China's history, the Tang Dynasty did leave us a lot of priceless Tang heritage, such as Tang Sancai and Tang Poetry, and we also claimed to be Tang people.