A professor fires back at the 'Tang Dynasty was fake' crowd
A viral claim that the Tang Dynasty never existed meets a quiet stack of old history books.
A Weibo thread catches fire: "The Tang Dynasty never existed." Caps-lock energy, righteous fury, screenshots flying — as if the posters had just climbed out of a time machine to set everyone straight.
A Fudan professor glances up, raises one eyebrow, and quietly stacks a few hefty volumes on the lectern. The Old Book of Tang. The New Book of Tang. "These authors," he says, "were not exactly writing for the algorithm."
Pseudo-history has a habit of reappearing like a recurring cameo. But the thing that actually outlasts the noise? A Tang sancai horse, standing perfectly still in a museum case — unbothered, unmoved, and very much real.