What were the achievements in the field of literature and art in the Sui and Tang dynasties?

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, China's literary and artistic achievements were due to:

1. The unity and strength of the country and its economic prosperity

2. The implementation of an enlightened and compatible cultural policy

3. The close interaction between the various ethnic groups in the country

4. The inheritance of historical traditions

Subjective: the imperial examination system for the selection of talents, and the completion of the school system, which contributed to the development of poetry. The development of poetry.

The 380 years from 581 to 960 AD were the period of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties when the feudal system of China continued to develop and flourish, the second heyday of Chinese feudal society. The grandeur, openness and magnificence of the Sui and Tang societies were incomparable to those of any other dynasties. In the world at that time, China was at the forefront of development, the most civilized and advanced, the most prosperous and developed, the most affluent and powerful countries.

First, the social system was advanced. The 5th to 11th centuries AD was the early medieval period of the world, roughly equivalent to China's North and South Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period. At this time, Western Europe, as well as North Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, have just entered the feudal society, compared with China lagged behind a stage of social development.

Secondly, the high level of production development. The main economic production sector of the feudal society, the clothing industry, in the Sui and Tang dynasties had a greater development. Agricultural tools such as hoe, shovel, sickle and plow were greatly improved. Water conservancy facilities have been repaired and new excavations, and more extensive and perfect.

Third, long-term unification. Since the re-unification of the Sui Dynasty in 589, China under the Sui and Tang dynasties was the only great power in the world that remained united for a long time. Division and fragmentation only accounted for a short period of time. China was the strongest and largest country in the world at that time.

Fourth, culture flourished. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, China adopted an open-door policy and not only absorbed a lot of useful cultures from other countries, but also spread China's prosperous and developed traditional culture to the rest of the world. China's traditional Confucian culture was organized, Taoist culture was developed under the support of the government, and Buddhism, which was imported from India, was greatly influenced by Chinese traditional culture and rituals and was Chineseized. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism reached its peak of prosperity, surpassing India in the level of Buddhist studies and making China replace India as the center of Buddhism in the world. The relatively enlightened cultural policy and less prohibition of literature made the progress of science and technology, astronomy and calendar outstanding, and literature and art blossomed in a variety of colors, poetry, lyrics, prose, legendary novels, variations, music, dance, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, all of them had great achievements and influenced the later generations and the countries around the world.

Fifth, the center of world economic and cultural exchanges. Advanced civilization and affluent and powerful China was the world, especially in Asia, the center of economic and cultural exchanges. Sui and Tang dynasties in China and the world to further strengthen the links, Chang'an became the international metropolis, in Chang'an there are ambassadors, merchants, there are Hu people opened stores. The Han and Tang dynasties have the Silk Road for the exchange between the East and the West, while the Han Dynasty direct communication between China and the world was limited to Central Asia, India, the furthest is the Banchao deputy envoy Gan Ying reached the Persian Gulf.