EmperorXuan Zong begins to favorTaoism overBuddhism, adopting the new reign titleTianbao ("Heavenly Treasures"), to indicate his divinemandate. The total number of enlisted troops in the Tang armies has risen to about half a million, due to Xuan Zongs's earlier military reforms.
For themunicipal census of the Chinese capital cityChang'an and itsmetropolitan area ofJingzhou (including small towns in the vicinity), theNew Book of Tang records that in this year there are 362,921 registered families with 1,960,188 people.
Li Bai (alsoLi Po), Chinesepoet, is summoned by Xuan Zong to attend the imperial court. He and his friendDu Fu become the two most prominent figures in the flourishing ofChinese poetry, during the mid-Tang dynasty.
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