"Everyone, look at the engraved design. It portrays a Zong-era tavern. Though it somewhat captures the Zong style, it’s too vague, suggesting the forger wasn’t familiar with the Zong background. Moreover, inside the tavern are a few poetry collections. The date inscribed at the base is from the fifth year of the Taiping Xingguo period, 980 AD. This was during the fifth year of Emperor Taizong of Zong’s reign when he was waging campaigns in the north, and the country was still ununified. Zong poetry hadn't flourished yet; all the famed Zong poets hadn’t even emerged. The era of Zong poetry truly began in the late Emperor Zhenzong's reign, decades later. So, it’s impossible for these poetry collections to exist in a common tavern during the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo."
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