This weeks reading was about chinese poems. One of my favorite poems was To My Retired Friend Wei. This is my fvorite poem because its telling me that some people you meet are not always your friends. I like how its saying they both became so called friends because they were both going through something. So they both got drunk because they thought that it was going to solve there problem.tang dynasty was was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.The rise of the Tang dynasty in China mirrored the rise of the Han over 800 years earlier.The first emperor of the Tang dynasty, Kao-tsu One of Kao-tsu's sons, General Li Shih-min, succeeded in eliminating all political rivals of the Tang and established firm control of the Tang dynasty over the newly reunified China.He then proceeded to murder his brothers, and forced his father to abdicate the throne to him. (Week 7 )