What are the cities and towns of the Tang Dynasty?

The Tang Dynasty's city system is relatively strict, the workshop for the residential area, the city for the commercial area, and the provisions of the "non-third grade or above, shall not open the door along the street," those ancient TV dramas of the kind of commercial and residential dual-purpose, store along the street in the Tang Dynasty, at least in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, at least the situation is not likely to occur before. The general workshop can not have an inn, inn in the city downtown, then only in the city only. There should be no inns in Pro-Ren Square. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, the people in the neighborhood had "invaded the street and hit the wall", and there might be an inn in the neighborhood.

Fang

The Hui from the formation of the beginning, living in a more dispersed, so there is a "Yuan Hui Hui all over the world," said the Yuan Hui Hui mainly in the transportation along the commercial centers and cities, such as the southeast coastal ports (Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Hangzhou), and the mainland of Yangzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Xi'an and other places. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the feudal rulers adopted the method of "divide and rule", and the Hui people were constantly moved and dispersed, living in mixed communities with the Han Chinese. Some of them were even driven to the remote poor villages and deep mountains and ravines. In this case, the Hui people take Islam as the bond, take the mosque as the center, concentrate and unite around the mosque, become relatively independent of a number of small Hui settlements. The Hui people divide and call such small settlements within the nation by the name of "Fang". In the Tang and Song dynasties, the ancestors of the Hui were called "Fanke", and until the Yuan Dynasty ruled over the southeastern provinces, they were still called "Hui Hui Fanke", and the places where they lived were called "Fanfang". Later, through the development of evolution, the Hui people to live in their own place called "Square".

The Pre-Qin and Tang dynasties saw the prevalence of the "Fangshi" system, a centralized market regulated by the government. It was a centralized market controlled by the government, set up in a square area with gates and walls for regular trading. There were rows and rows of "rows" or "wares" in the market, generally referred to as 36 rows, 72 rows, or even 360 rows and so on. Stores of the same trade were often clustered in the same row or several rows, and traded to the people. Every city has such a market, and large cities have more than two. For example, Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, had nine markets. The government had full-time management officials in each market, and there were strict regulations. Later, in order to facilitate the contact and management of the trade, there were "line chiefs" or "store chiefs", who were usually appointed by the government, but might also be introduced by the trade itself and then appointed by the government. There was no formal organization among peers and traders at that time. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the market system had slackened and collapsed completely after the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

References http://www.scu.edu.tw/politics/journal/J12/j12hsu.htm