Continuation of Tang Poetry in Southern Tang
After the official fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, some members of its ruling house of Li managed to find refuge in the south of China, where their descendants founded the Southern Tang Dynasty in the year 937. This dynasty continued many of the traditions of the former great Tang Dynasty, including poetry, until its official fall in 975, and the captivity of its ruler. Importantly for the history of poetry, this ruler Li Yu survived another three years as a prisoner of the Song Dynasty, from which time some of his best known works date, written in the true Tang style. Thus, including this "afterglow of the T'ang Dynasty", the final date for the Tang Poetry era can be considered to be at the death of Li Yu, in 978.
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