晚唐

Wǎntáng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Late Tang, the last stage of the Tang dynasty (from the 830s to 907) and of Tang poetry

Examples

HSK 5
Lǐ Shāngyǐn hé Dù Mù dōu shì Wǎntáng shīrén.
Li Shangyin and Du Mu were both Late Tang poets.
HSK 7-9
Wǎntáng de shī chángcháng dài zhe yì zhǒng dàndàn de yōushāng, jiù xiàng wángcháo de huánghūn.
Late Tang poems often carry a faint sadness, like the dusk of a dynasty.

Tips

usage
The last of the four stages of Tang poetry (初唐, 盛唐, 中唐, 晚唐), the age of 李商隐 and 杜牧. Historians often take it together with the Five Dynasties that followed, as 晚唐五代.

Stroke Order

晚 wǎn
唐 Táng