I wouldn’t know how I would feel if I was Li Yuan. Being completely overshadowed by my own son is a complicated feeling.

Moral of the story: Depression does not stop you from toppling a dynasty and becoming the next emperor as long as you have supportive friends and family

The accuracy of the Chinese armors are amazing. You did a phenomenal job presenting Chinese military gear at the time.

The Virgin dad VS The Chad son.

Chad Li Shimin created the greatest early medieval empire. 58% global GDP combined with advanced military, science, engineering and arts. In addition to those feats, Tang was the most cosmopolitan, meritocratic, and tolerant empire at the time. It was truly an example of what could be achieved by the near perfect combination of charisma, martial prowess, high intelligence and balls of steel.

This channel is criminally underrated. One of the few history channels which combined very high historical accuracy and easy-going presentation suited for both history buffs and casual viewers

I love the fact that his whole family came together at the very end to win the day - very poetic

Make TaiZong proud! As a member of the Li clan, the 2nd most populated surname nowadays in China

Tang was another period of ancient China history when numerous magic generals appeared just like the Three Kingdoms era, such as Li Jing, Li Shiji, Yuchi Jingde, Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Shan Xiongxin, Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Qibi Heli, Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanche....

Your channel not being bigger is a travesty, I am going to recommend you to as many people I can. Amazing history, thank you so much and keep up the good work!

Love your channel!

The ending of this video kinda foreshadowed the rivalry between Li Shimin and his elder brother (particularly the fact that Li Shimin eventually killed his brothers).

The way this is laid out and explains everything is so perfect. Thank you so much. I'm sharing this widely. I hope everybody can do the same.

I really love your videos. I never understood why you have low views and subscribers, you deserve to have more, your videos have helped me in my online class lessons about Chinese dynasties.

I can't wait to hear more about Pingyang, my kind of Princess

Boosting the algo, awesome video!

I'm really enjoying both your content and your art, you are one of my currently favorite channels. I'd love to hear more about Korea from you, it always feels sort of the often neglected middle brother between China and Japan even though they got plenty of cool history of their own.

- I am constantly amazed by the amazing artwork and the precision of the narration!!!!

How did the Koreans manage to take out such a large army? What were the tactics the Koreans used?

Excellent, thank you very much. Now catching up with the other vids 👍👌😁

The story of the start of the Tang Dynasty is inspiring! Also, while Total War Three Kingdoms 8 princess felt very peaceful and stable, the reality was far from that, the Jin Dynasty didn't last very long. And the further dynasties that replaced it

Love the use of the gauges, they are clever, original and informative.

Another great episode here, interesting portrayal of the turn of events.

Great as always.

han tang and yuan are probably the most famous ones and in my opinion the golden ages

This is my kind of channel love it

Good video. Li family women were a sight to behold, leading armies, dominating politics, they even produce the only woman Emperor through marriage.

Cool story and it's great to have a narrator who can pronounce the people and places correctly. Good stuff.

I really like this channel's usage of "funny ideas".

An incompetent monster is much worse than a competent monster.

love your video!

i've studied this at school but you have explained it a lot better

Li Shimin what a absloute man, in my opinion china's greatest emperor

Some can say that ‘Alpha son and Beta dad’ story is a myth and propaganda created and utilized by Li Shimin to promote himself, legitimize his regime , and immortalize his reign in history. Yes. But there is some truth behind the myth ‘Alpha son and Beta dad’ narrative. From the perspective of Character, Li Shimin is such a rare kind of Shining mixed personality that no one can argue when compare to his father, his father is great because of experience and abilities as same as the men from his class and background should have but Li Shimin has more even when compare to his own brothers, for example his ruthlessness, his tolerance and even acceptance towards different opinions that he use to rule his empire, his talents in many subjects. He’s just younger than his father. That’s all. His qualities will make him shine for sure as people in the contemporary period expected that he will become great. That’s one of the reasons why he gained a lot of supporters and successfully practically engineered a coup, killed his brothers/rivals and , with immense support from officials and other influential figures, pressure his father to step down and retire. Many times the men called as Alpha male are also the men who are good at ‘directly’ and ‘indirectly’ promoting themselves , aren’t they? As these events played out, they could become part of his propaganda later. To make every propaganda convincing, there must always be some facts in it. Otherwise, how a propaganda will convince people to buy it as ‘social mainstream accepted narratives’ that help maintain the regime or the position in the regime. And as it turned out, Li Shimin became a brilliant, and successful emperor who open a new golden age for China. From archives by various sources official, non-official, etc. also pointed at the exceptional character of Li Shimin

Love your work on screen.

Hi Bro, I've been looking @ ur vids for quite a while & I really luv ur contents, & I like the way u present ur vids. It's really heartening to see that there're young history enthusiast such as urself who were presenting interesting historical facts or stories to the mass audience, in such a engaging & lighthearted manner. Anyway, back to this vid, although I wld say most of the stuff r historically correct, there r several pts which I dun agree, & thus I wld like to offer my thoughts as follows. No.1: Li Yuan is NO timid pathetic loser as depicted in the vid. In contrast, I think the real Li Yuan is a shrewd, ambitious, hardy & capable leader, who is oso a sympathetic person too. The image of Li Yuan depicted in this vid is the common historical image popularized & featured in the (Old/New) Book of Tang. Even though both books r factual historical texts but it's widely known that Tang Taizong Li Shimin was uber sensitive abt his historical image when he became emperor, & had coerced his court historians to amend some of the historical facts & events, especially those of his father & bros. This fact is widely accepted & recognized by most contemperary scholars & modern days historians. I mean, It prob wldn't help his case if the history depicts that his father & bros were shrewd, ambitious & capable leaders who had contributed immensely to overthrow the Sui dynasty, eradicate the wardlords & unify China, but end up being killed or seconded in the end by a rebellion (Xuan Wu Gate) which by any measure, is a treacherous plot devised to seize power, isn't it? Thus, it makes every sense for Li Shimin to demonize his bros & taint the glorious reputation of his father, & in turn panegyrized & exaggerate his heroic deeds, & take credits for most of the contributions...@ the expense of his father & bros, in order for him to justify his "rights" to ascend the throne, kill his bros in cold blood & be accepted & remembered as a legitimate ruler. Dun get me wrong, I like Tang Taizong, I think he's prob the G.O.A.T emperor in the history of China. Mao was right to place side by side the other 4 great rulers in history, Emperor Shi of Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, Song Taizu & Genghis Khan in his poem 沁园春.雪. Wat I can't agree is the way that he twisted the facts that make it seems like he's the "Brain & Bronze" of the whole Tang organization. As pointed by the title of this vid, the overthrown of the Sui dynasty, eradication of the wardlords & unification of China is very much, a family project, a joint efforts by many heroes of that time, & most importantly, due to a combinations of events. I truely believe Li Shimin is instrumental in the whole thing, but to say that he masterminded the whole thing & did it all (or mostly) by himself, is prepostrous. I can pt out numerous historical facts or evidence which can support my pt abt Li Yuan but I wld prob gotta write another 30-40 lines, which I dun think anybody wld be interested to read :D Alright, No.2: Emperor Yang of Sui is NO loser...well, @ least b4 he fled Loyang in 616 & "self-exiled" himself @ Jiangdu & decides to juz rot there :) History hasn't been forgiving to this man, & quite frankly, it's not as if he dun deserved it, but I think if most ppl r willing to overlook his failures in his later reigns & focus more on his ambitious plans & projects (which were mostly well meaning.....with the exceptions of the incesssant invasions of Goguryeo), I think wat u'll see is a shrewd, intelligent, ambitious man with great foresight. I believe nobody with adequate historical knowledge on that period of time can dispute on the importance of the Grand Canal, the extension & repair of the Great Wall & the establishment of the secondary capital, Loyang. But I dun think many ppl truely understand y did he invested that much efforts into these projects. In fact, all of these 3 projects r closely related to the circumstances & wld hav work wonders for the empire...if they were successfully completed. Let me explain 1 by 1. The Grand Canal is imperative for the empire becos back then the central of the economy of China had gradually shifted frm Changan (Modern day Xi An) to South Eastern regions, arnd the Jiangdu area. Let's not forget China had undergone 300yrs of devastating civil wars & internal strifes b4 the Sui dynasty, & most of these took place in the Northern regions. Fertile farmlands were barrens & vast forests / woodlands were deforested, cities were constantly sacked & pillaged in these regions. Vast swathes of scholars, Han peasants & artisans had alrdy fled South during this period. In the end, most cities in the Southern regions were much more prosperous than those of the North. N this is where the Grand Canal & establishment of Loyang came into place, to reconcile & bridge the burgeonging gaps btwn the North & South. The North can continue to be the administrative capital of the empire, while the South can be the prosperous economy centre. Something like Berlin & Bavaria to the Germans. The extension & repair of the Great Wall was oso important to the empire, due to the intimidating presence of the Western & Eastern Gokturk states, which the 2 Sui Emperors had endeavoured to placate (or manipulate @ times). Both of them were well aware that it wld take time for them to gather sufficient military strength b4 they cld finally get rid of these 2 formidable foes. Thus, it wld be wise to build up a gd defense b4 they managed to do so, & this is where the Great Wall comes into place. Yes yes, I know! He foolishly tried to accomplish all these in juz a short span of time, activating fractions of the whole populations to slog on these mega projects till msny of them died & bankrupting the coffers. I totally cannot argue wif that & I agree he's juz impatient, idiotic & yes, he's a jerk...& a very tyrannical 1! There's NO freaking way his empire, or any empire b4 & after that, can EVER accomplished all these mega projects (+ going into an indeterminable war with a strong country likd Goguryeo), in the lifetime of a single emperor! But I wld oso like to offer my view on this. I'm inclined to believe that Emperor Yang has something of a "Napoleon Complex", of which he is extremely obsessed abt outdoing his father, Emperor Wen, & to clear any rumours of him murdering his father & usurp of the throne. Guess he really had something against his father & he was so desperate that he's willing to do anything & everything fast, in order to prove to everyone that he was the "Greater Yang" in the family. N his obesession with the invasions of Goguryeo, I believe this was his uber competitive nature in play. Let's not forget he was born a Prince & prob had almost everything his way in life. B4 the utter failure in the 1st Goguryeo invasion, the man had almost everything his way, he was successful in almost everything he did, & maybe he really thought Heaven was at his side, so there's nothing he can't do. Thus, even when the 2nd invasions failed, he juz cldn't let it go & he lost it. Oh well, I guess the saying is true, "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine ur altitude". I can pt out some other pts which directly or indirectly lead to the collapse of the Sui dynasty, but I'm not gonna talk abt them here, which will make this post endless! This is a loonngg read, & I apologized for it if I bored anyone. Ciao...

These are great videos for school kids thank u.

This was the reason why the Tang Dynasty was the most powerful Dynasty in china. Their descendants were the army General from Han and Qin dynasty. Many Chinese dynasty in china originated from the Han and Qin dynasty, their descendants has a blood of Han and Qin that is why they aren't afraid.

Nice episode! One figure from this period who might be interesting to do a video on is the Daoist Scholar-Physician Sun Simiao.

👍 good video

Tang is strong 💪

Li Yuan had a temple name similar to Liu Bang both being called Gaozu which is why in the Han emperor list on Wikipedia (don't judge) he is referred as Gaozu of Han although Liu Bang's Posthumous name is simply Gao which eases confusion of differencing Gazou of Han from Gaozu of Tang.

This could totally be a video game, racing against 4 clocks.

The description "Tyrannical" for the Sui is... relative and complex. You can conclude that the Ming was likewise tyrannical, specially during its "Golden Age" under the Yongle Emperor. I mean, just look at the punishment for misshaping a brick for the Forbidden Palace in Beijing. oooff

1:48 Kingdom fan has enter the chat.

Hi, could you also use more accurate mapping for the korean kingdoms? The one you used in the video is pretty much the current map of korea.

Ever thought about making a series of the holy Roman Empire? Very obscure for most Americans and many Europeans.

Did not know the Emperor and Li Yuan were first cousin.

Descendants of Li Xin.

13:36 Fans of Song of the Long March gonna go nut.

Make a video about Yue Fei

The moral is that good people get noble offspring.

I see that the Chinese golden age under Tang dynasty came later than the indian golden age under Gupta empire and same with the first empire of maurya empire which came earlier than the Qin empire but now its the China that got the upper hand and their rise came early.

Li family background probably full of BS to make himself and his new rule more legit. Li family very likely are mixture of ethnic Han and nomadic tribes that were sinicized with Han names. Actually Yang Guang is not an idiot, but he had a mental weakness (created by his father and mother's doting of his elder brother) and the need to prove himself as the best son and the most qualified to rule more so than his older brother (who he and some politicians killed in a plot for succession as ancient rule is that the oldest son takes the throne). Thus he did many grand projects / wars during his rule while disregarding the material and human costs in an attempt to satisfy this need/obsession.

nomadic Xianbei? Xianbei, especially the ones married to the Li family, had been sedentary for generations...

Ming dynasty and qing?

China’s golden time is yet to come.

Usually it’s the other way around

I thought as sneaky as Liu BEI???

When was Han Wu Di classify as tyrannical emperor?.

don't forget Dong Zhuo

Is it true that the ruling clan of Tang descended from the likes of Laozi or Li Xin of Qin, Li Guang of Han or the ruling clan of Western Liang? I mean, is there definitive evidence? Also, great videos guys. In one of your earlier videos, though, you refer to the Xiongnu as "Proto-Mongolic". As you mentioned in one of your more recent videos, the Xiongnu were indeed a confederacy so we can't really say whether they were Proto-Mongolic, Proto-Turkic or Proto-Yeniseian (like the Jie people). However, due to the fact that the Donghu were Proto-Mongolic via the Xianbei connection, the Book of Zhou's reference to the Ashina clan (the ruling clan of the Tujue or Gökturks) as "Northern Xiongnu" and, as you are also aware, the Oghuz Khagan connection, I'd go for "Proto-Turkic". But anyway, keep up the good work! There is also a folk rock band named after the Tang Dynasty, I hope you fancy them too!

Why did they name an empire after an orange drink?

Hi

點解有唐人街這個名稱，就是源於這個朝代。

Damn, Li Yuan is a warrior, the first emperor who created Tang dynasty and this chanel said he is beta 😂 lol

Lol, how come Li Shimin is making me go UwU.. 😘😂

Since when was Liu Bang gracious lmao

emperors should have picked their best son instead of eldest son

Sooooooo, u skip the powerful Yuwen clan? The Lu Bu of Sui, General Yuwen Chengdu... and his wrathful father Yuwen Huaji a high ranking General who rival Li Yuan in the court. Yuwen Huaji was also responsible for disposing Emperor Yan Guang and established his short-lived dynasty.

Han Wudi was not a tyrant.

Whats with the phrase "his wife's son", while the son being his flesh n blood?

So are you conveniently forget about the princess pin Yang who really was the Empress that brought that Dynasty to be by making them take her father Wu-Tang

are you Chinese? you know a lot of details.

Why is the territory of goguryeo shredded to yalu river? Goguryeo occupied liaodong area at that time.

To think the formidable Queen Dugu picked this incompetent son as Crown Prince...sigh

Liu Bang kinda resembles doge.

It seems you have the Asian comedic gene

Li Shimin is an example of balance of Northerners and Southerner of China. However the Li claim are bogus. I am Hmong my name is Moua and our ancestors say we came from the house of 🐴. Basically my last name is Ma in Chinese. Does that make me a descendant of the Ma like Ma Chao from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? 😂 Or Ma Sanbao? 😂 Absolutely not. lol

I thought the Han Dynasty was the Golden Age of China?.

Alpha son and Beta dad is a myth created by Li Shimin. The guy was good at propaganda and self promotion. Li Yuan was a general of the Sui and combat veteran, also decisive and capable of founding the Tang Dynasty. He just wasn’t as ruthless as his son the Prince of Qin.

9:05 Yeah the Turks 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 🐺🐺are way with worse than the Xiongnu, I don't know of many horse warriors more brutal and unrelenting than the Turks.

So basically Tang Dynasty is just a continuation of the Sui Dynasty.

nah, no such thing as bigx or not or dominx, winx etc about it, bigx s just inferi1x bloat, doesn tmatter, not manx etc

Beta dad 😂😂😂 he might compare to male-feminist today.

wrg, no scuh thign as alphx or betax etc, bigx s infer1ox bloat, doesn tmatter, cepux,own master, alphx nmw

About Yang Sui di [Emperor Yang of Sui] - He wasn't an incompetent person but he was too tyrannical and lack the ability to empathy with the peasantry. - Many of his projects while alive were great but for his vision alone he causes countless death of commoners [During the imperial time, People never knew the future of the state. they only care about how to live a peaceful life. those who gave them hell. The peasants hate them and are likely to rebel] - Second was he wasted too many human resources for future cost-efficient trade and prosperity. [with those peasants who never learn how to read and write will never though and likely rebel against you]

wrg, no scuh thign as alphx or betax etc, bigx s infer1ox bloat, doesn tmatter

Your channel is for Chinese who speaks English 😂😂😂😂

Why r Koreans so tough considering China is so much bigger? Could it be sui tang warriors are not internationally competitive in combat?

Sui&Tang Dynasty founded by Di people,a Tibeto-burman group. Di people surname: Li (李) family of Cheng Han Yang (楊) family of Chouchi Fu (符) family of Former Qin Lü (呂) family of Former Qin Lü (呂) family of Later Liang