Culture
Emperor Wenzong issued an imperial decree, stating Zhang Xu's calligraphy, Pei Min's swordplay and Li Bai's poetry as the "Three Wonders of the Great Tang Empire".
In 837, a project commissioned by Emperor Wenzong, to have the texts and commentaries of the Confucian classics carved on stone tablets and publicly displayed, was completed at the imperial university for nobles (國子監, Guozi Jian).
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