China in the later half of the first millennium during the 8th and 9th centuries experienced a tremendous growth in land during the Tang dynasty. This came with a great cost of supplies, money and people, almost all the burden of which fell onto the poor. Many poets during this time wrote on the duality of China's expansion from both positive and negative viewpoints. While China's constant wars hardly, if at all, affected nobles, they drained the poor almost to the point of bringing China's economy to its knees. Of those poets, who were well educated, mostly notably Du Fu from the 8th century, and Po Chü-yi from the 9th century.
In “The Ballad of the War Chariots”, a poem by Du Fu, he described an incrediablely vivid scene. Parents, wives
In “The Ballad of the War Chariots”, a poem by Du Fu, he described an incrediablely vivid scene. Parents, wives