I think ancient China is important because it is China. China basically makes everything we have today. We should relie on ancient China because we use stuff today that they created. If it wasn't for ancient China, the USA would just about have nothing.
social life in ancient China
THE FIRST CHINESE DYNASTY
A dynasty is a line of rules who become to the same family. Scholars think the first Chinese dynasty was the Shang. The dynasty of the Shang come around 1750 BC.
Ruins of the buildings and wall tells that the Shang built the first cities in ancient China. One of them was the royal Capital located Anyang. A temple and palace sat at the city's place.
Then peoples buildings and homes of officials of the government were nearby. At this, stood Homes and workshops.
The king was the religious, political, and military leader of Shang China.
A warlord is a leader of the military who ruled has own army.
The Qin Emperor
In the year of 221 BC a Chinese state of Qin took power
Over China and stopped the Zhou Dynasty. The brand
new leader named himself Qin Shihuangdi, this stands
for "the first Qin emperor". Qin changed ancient China in
different ways.
Qin's wish was to unify ancient China. He had taken over power
Over China's provinces. Before that, the provinces were ruled by
Aristocrats. The aristocrats gave control to their sons when they
Passed away. Now, Qin the governors.
The Emperor Qin's laws were rude and mean. Anyone that did
not agree with him, they were killed or punished. He also burned
Writings that disagreed with him."Networks: Ancient China
political life in ancient China
The Zhou Political System
The Zhou kings says to possess to mandate of heaven. To this idea, the land of the holy place handed over power leader or king, and no one leaded without heavens permission. If there was a bad king, heaven wont support that king but another one.
The Zhou left from a location to the west of the Shang kingdom. New Zhou leaders used the mandate of the holy place it clarify their rebellion against the Shang. Next Zhou leaders made their territory bigger to the east and northwest. Zhou soldiers later moved south, later expanded their rule to the Chang Jiang.
The Zhou found a new political rule. They gave a location to others in return for support for the military, and other services. The king Zhou was at the highest service. He gave pieces of land to "lords". Or people of a high rank.
The gods paid taxes and gave soldiers to
The leader are needed. "Peasants or farmers with small farms, were below the order. Each family of the peasants were got a little plot of each land. They had to farm land for the noble. The meaning of the system was in the "Book Of Songs."
" Everywhere under the vast heaven
There is no land that is not the king's
Within the borders of those lands"
There are none who are not the king's servants
- from the Zhou book of songs
King: the king leaded the government and handed land to lords.
Warriors and Lords: paid taxes to the king and give warriors to protect the lords.
Peasants: peasants farmed the nobles' lands."Networks: Ancient China, Ancient China book.
The Zhou kings says to possess to mandate of heaven. To this idea, the land of the holy place handed over power leader or king, and no one leaded without heavens permission. If there was a bad king, heaven wont support that king but another one.
The Zhou left from a location to the west of the Shang kingdom. New Zhou leaders used the mandate of the holy place it clarify their rebellion against the Shang. Next Zhou leaders made their territory bigger to the east and northwest. Zhou soldiers later moved south, later expanded their rule to the Chang Jiang.
The Zhou found a new political rule. They gave a location to others in return for support for the military, and other services. The king Zhou was at the highest service. He gave pieces of land to "lords". Or people of a high rank.
The gods paid taxes and gave soldiers to
The leader are needed. "Peasants or farmers with small farms, were below the order. Each family of the peasants were got a little plot of each land. They had to farm land for the noble. The meaning of the system was in the "Book Of Songs."
" Everywhere under the vast heaven
There is no land that is not the king's
Within the borders of those lands"
There are none who are not the king's servants
- from the Zhou book of songs
King: the king leaded the government and handed land to lords.
Warriors and Lords: paid taxes to the king and give warriors to protect the lords.
Peasants: peasants farmed the nobles' lands."Networks: Ancient China, Ancient China book.
Religious life in ancient China
In the dynasty of Shang Dynasty in (about 2000 BC), the newest time we know a lot about. A lot of people in China served different gods. (weather key gods and sky gods. Also higher gods ruled over the different gods- called Shang-TI. People that lived in the Shang Dynasty also thought that the relatives/ancestors. Like their grandparents and parents- had come like gods when they passed away. A nd they thought their ancestors wanted to be served As well. Just like gods. Every family served their own ancestors.if they wanted to get different gods on their sides, they would give animals to them.
Around the time of 1500 BC humans started to use written "oracle bones". To search for what was going on in the future. Also around the time of 1100 BC, the people of china also served a force called t'ien.
Buddhism reaches China
he Silk Road served as well to spread ideas. Buddhism
Stretched across from India to China across the Silk Road.
In the beginning, Buddhism attracted little followers. However, the longer period of unrest after the fall of the Han Dynasty made the spread of Buddhism better
After Wudi, there was a lot of emperors that were not honest and they were not strong. There was aristocrats that betook over the land. They forced farmers to give them their land. This caused the people to start a rebellion against the Han leaders. http://quatr.us/china/religion/#topbar,"Networks: Ancient China
Around the time of 1500 BC humans started to use written "oracle bones". To search for what was going on in the future. Also around the time of 1100 BC, the people of china also served a force called t'ien.
Buddhism reaches China
he Silk Road served as well to spread ideas. Buddhism
Stretched across from India to China across the Silk Road.
In the beginning, Buddhism attracted little followers. However, the longer period of unrest after the fall of the Han Dynasty made the spread of Buddhism better
After Wudi, there was a lot of emperors that were not honest and they were not strong. There was aristocrats that betook over the land. They forced farmers to give them their land. This caused the people to start a rebellion against the Han leaders. http://quatr.us/china/religion/#topbar,"Networks: Ancient China
Intellectual Life In Ancient China
.Qin Achievements
Brand new, huge building projects also made unifying the
the country better. Then the rule of Shi Huangsdi's rule,
China created a network of roads the brought together the capital to every part of the empire. The roads made traveling easier for everybody. The new roads were the saw width, 50 paces wide. This achievement helped the army move fast and easy to bring down revolts in distant locations.
China's water has also been upgraded. The workers created canals to bring together China's rivers. Like the brand new roads, the canals got better at transportation throughout China. Using the brand new canals and rivers together made it a whole lot faster and easier to haul stuff from north to south.
With that, Qin created an system for irrigation to make more land great for farming. Some stuff from that system are still used in today's society.
Shi Huangsdi even wanted to protect china from people invading. North Nomads were strong and fierce lords, and they were a big threat to Ancient China. Wishing to stop the warriors from invading, the leader built "the Great Wall Of China, a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier." The first part of the wall was build in the 600s B.C. to keep people that invade out of Ancient China. The Qin Emperor brought earlier parts of the wall to create a long form and unbroken structure. Building the wall takes years of work from thousands or laborers. A lot of the workers died trying to build the wall. I mean A LOT of people."Ancient China's book","Ancient China's book"
Brand new, huge building projects also made unifying the
the country better. Then the rule of Shi Huangsdi's rule,
China created a network of roads the brought together the capital to every part of the empire. The roads made traveling easier for everybody. The new roads were the saw width, 50 paces wide. This achievement helped the army move fast and easy to bring down revolts in distant locations.
China's water has also been upgraded. The workers created canals to bring together China's rivers. Like the brand new roads, the canals got better at transportation throughout China. Using the brand new canals and rivers together made it a whole lot faster and easier to haul stuff from north to south.
With that, Qin created an system for irrigation to make more land great for farming. Some stuff from that system are still used in today's society.
Shi Huangsdi even wanted to protect china from people invading. North Nomads were strong and fierce lords, and they were a big threat to Ancient China. Wishing to stop the warriors from invading, the leader built "the Great Wall Of China, a barrier that linked earlier walls across China's northern frontier." The first part of the wall was build in the 600s B.C. to keep people that invade out of Ancient China. The Qin Emperor brought earlier parts of the wall to create a long form and unbroken structure. Building the wall takes years of work from thousands or laborers. A lot of the workers died trying to build the wall. I mean A LOT of people."Ancient China's book","Ancient China's book"
Technology Work in Ancient China
Art and Literature: Han Achievements.
During the Han there was a lot of achievements literature and art was a big thing. And there was a lot of devices that people used.
The Chinese' people from the Han time creates many works of art. People became professionals at art work. The designed portraits of people. A lot of the portraits were religious. And religious characters. Han artist also created realistic stuff about everyday life. Their creations were on the walls of tombs and palaces.
In literature, the Han is popular for it poetry. Poets created new styles of verse. It included the stake of fu. This was the most popular. The poets of fu put together prose and poetry.
Another style, named Shi , showed small lines of words that could be sung. Han leader took poets known for the beauty and goodness of their verses.
Han writers even took important "works of history." One historian that was named Sima Qian had written a full history about all of the dynasties during the early Han dynasty. This writing was famous. The style and format of it became a model for later history like writings. "Ancient China book."
During the Han there was a lot of achievements literature and art was a big thing. And there was a lot of devices that people used.
The Chinese' people from the Han time creates many works of art. People became professionals at art work. The designed portraits of people. A lot of the portraits were religious. And religious characters. Han artist also created realistic stuff about everyday life. Their creations were on the walls of tombs and palaces.
In literature, the Han is popular for it poetry. Poets created new styles of verse. It included the stake of fu. This was the most popular. The poets of fu put together prose and poetry.
Another style, named Shi , showed small lines of words that could be sung. Han leader took poets known for the beauty and goodness of their verses.
Han writers even took important "works of history." One historian that was named Sima Qian had written a full history about all of the dynasties during the early Han dynasty. This writing was famous. The style and format of it became a model for later history like writings. "Ancient China book."
Environment Life in Ancient China🇨🇳
Two strong rivers has helped form Chinese history. The two rivers yellow river, or Huang river runs through china. As it runs, it holds big amounts of strong soil. The strong soil gathers among the river banks. This creates the land to be more fertile, or a bigger way for farming. Farmers among the river Huang He are eligible to grow more crops. All though, the river Huang He floods a lot. Billions of humans have passed away because of these floods.
The Yangtze River, or the Chang Jiang, is a important water source in ancient China. Like the Huang He, the Ching Jiang gives strong soil for farming. It also gives a way for trade and transportation.
The Silk Road
The traders used part of overland routes to take Chinese goodies to distant buyers. One of the most famous trade roads is the Silk Road. " This 4,000- mile-long system of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, untill it reached the Mediterranean Sea." China's traders didn't travel the whole Silk Road. Up the road more reached Central Asia, they sold their goodies to close by traders. They would take the rest of the goodies the rest of the way.
Traveling the Silk Road was a very difficult task thousands of men and camels carried with valuable goods. Including jade, silks, and formed. They had protection and they had armed guards for the bandits that stole water and cargo. Networks: Ancient China,"Ancient China book."
The Yangtze River, or the Chang Jiang, is a important water source in ancient China. Like the Huang He, the Ching Jiang gives strong soil for farming. It also gives a way for trade and transportation.
The Silk Road
The traders used part of overland routes to take Chinese goodies to distant buyers. One of the most famous trade roads is the Silk Road. " This 4,000- mile-long system of routes stretched westward from China across Asia's deserts and mountain ranges, through the Middle East, untill it reached the Mediterranean Sea." China's traders didn't travel the whole Silk Road. Up the road more reached Central Asia, they sold their goodies to close by traders. They would take the rest of the goodies the rest of the way.
Traveling the Silk Road was a very difficult task thousands of men and camels carried with valuable goods. Including jade, silks, and formed. They had protection and they had armed guards for the bandits that stole water and cargo. Networks: Ancient China,"Ancient China book."