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Neolithic China |
Circa 7000 to 2200 BC |
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The earliest agricultural settlements in China developed along the |
Yellow River |
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The Neolithic settlements date back as far as 5000 BC to the |
Yangshao culture in northwest China. |
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Primary Yangshao site, a circular village of unplanned placement of structures, surrounded by a moat for protection |
Banpo village |
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None of the designs Banpo village could be defined as |
Representational |
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Xia Period |
2200 to 1700 BC |
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Discoveries at Anyang since the 1920s seem to verify the existence of this period. |
Xia period |
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Most interesting discovery in Xia period |
Inscribed bones, the earliest Chinese artifacts with writing (in actuality, a pictographic script that expressed abstract ideas). |
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Shang Dynasty |
1700 to 1045 BC |
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Recorded history begins in China |
Shang dynasty |
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Developed during the Shang dynasty |
A writing system which at first consisted of characters inscribed on bones and shells; later inscriptions were made on pottery and bronze vessels. |
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Another important development during the Shang |
Metal work with sophisticated bronze castings being executed using a piece-mold technique |
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The popular material for funerary goods because of its expense (representing wealth and status) and permanence. |
Bronze, an alloy of tin and copper |
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Probably the most significant development during the Shang |
The building of large tombs to house the deceased emperors |
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Ceremonial food vessel |
Ding |
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Ceremonial wine vessel |
Yu |
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The Ding is typical of the bronze vessels of the |
Shang dynasty |
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Ding is cast in this technique |
Piece mold |
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Ding is covered with this design |
A complicated, essentially zoomorphic, design. |
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The most frequent design convention on Shang vessels is called a |
Displayed figure (which seems to be mostly a head), with the motif divided in half lengthwise and the halves spreading out symmetrically on the vessel. |
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When a culture uses space-filling conventions, such as seem on Shang dynasty objects, it is termed |
Horror vacui (fear of empty space) |
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Zhou Dynasty |
1045 to 480 BC |
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Beginning of the "mandate of heaven" to rule |
Zhou leaders |
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Vessel in the shape of a ferocious animal, maybe a bear or a tiger, that is swallowing a man. |
Yu |
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A feudal aristocracy was created during the |
Zhou, declared that “under heaven, all one family” |
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Jade disks, technically precise and exquisite ritual objects frequently put in tombs. |
Pi |
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Warring States Period (Zhou Dynasty) |
480 to 221 BC |
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During the 6th century BC six states began an extended period of warfare in which they battled for supremacy. The states were Qin, Chu, Zan, Zhao, Wei, and Han. Won: |
Qin state |
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Two philosophers during Warring States period |
Laozi and Confucius |
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The founder of Taoism |
Laozi |
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The founder of Confucianism |
Confucius |
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Meant to put humans in harmony with the natural order |
Taoism |
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Philosophy emphasized correct moral and social actions |
Confucian philosophy |
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Qin Dynasty |
221 to 209 BC |
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The Qin leader that brought the Warring States Period to an end |
Zheng |
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After declaring himself first emperor of China, Zheng known as |
Shi Huangdi (221 to 206 BC). |
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Shi Huangdi (Zheng) established his capitol, had all historical books destroyed and killed thousands of Confucian scholars. |
Xi’an (She-ahn) |
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Best remembered for extending the Great Wall of China to a length of 1500 miles, and for his enormous tomb complex built near Xi’an |
Shi Huangdi |
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First Emperor’s burial mound |
600 feet tall Mount Li |
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Tomb of Shi Huangdi - First Emperor’s burial mound auxiliary tomb chamber contains |
an army of over 7000 life-sized terra-cotta soldiers. |
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Great Wall begun |
214 BC |
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Han Dynasty |
206 BC to AD 220 |
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Overthrew their predecessors when Shi Huangdi died |
the Han |
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Established under the Han dynasty, a trading route that linked the east with the west |
The Silk Road |
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Became the official ideology under the Han |
Confucianism |
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Considered the Chinese Classical age |
Zhou dynasty |
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The Golden Age |
Han dynasty |
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The art of the Han moves away from being status-oriented to |
everyday subjects, with mythology and narrative becoming common in art. Human figures, animals, village and farm yard scenes are portrayed. |
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The Dai Tombs, found at Mawangdui in 1971, had been made for |
The wife of the Marquise of Dai. The tombs of the Marquis (husband) and their son were nearby. |
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Draped over the innermost of three nesting coffins. |
The Funerary Banner |
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The scenes on the banner depict three world levels: |
The sky world, the earth world, and the nether world |
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One of the most evocative figurines in tombs to be found from this period is |
The Flying Horse, late Han Dynasty |
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Flying Horse, foot on swallow represents |
Supernatural power of horse |
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Six Dynasties, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Wei Dynasty |
220 to 589 AD |
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During the 3rd century AD the country was split further into three kingdoms, which were united under an ineffective regime called Western Jin. |
Wei, Shu, and Wu |
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From the 4th to 6th centuries there was more political regrouping in a period is called the |
Southern and Northern Dynasties |
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This was another period of political confusion and turmoil and only gradually was China reunited again under the |
Sui Dynasty |
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In the 6th century, reunited China and established a powerful but short lived dynasty, called Sui. |
Yang Chien, the Emperor of Wen |
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From Sui dynasty, exemplifies the spirit and humanity of Buddha even in its geometrically simplified form. |
A Colossal Buddha (Cave #20, Yungang) |
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A site about ten miles west of the Wei capital. It is a series of rock-cut temples consisting of about twenty large and twenty small caves decorated with painted (polychromed) sculptures. |
Yungang |
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Sui (Sway) Dynasty |
589 to 618 AD |
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Yang Chien’s son built this, which united northern and southern China, and helped with the eventual absorption of the northern barbarians into the culture. |
The Grand Canal |
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At a complex near Luoyang, work began during the Wei dynasty continued as 1,352 caves were filled with over 97,000 figures, ranging in size from colossal to miniature. |
Longmen Caves |
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Neighing Horse |
Tang Dynasty |
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Porcelain ceramics and colored glazed perfected |
Tang Dynasty |
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Period of political disunity and internal strife and warfare |
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms |
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Inspired flowers of sciences and arts, especially in literature and philosophy |
Northern and Southern Song Dynasty |
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Confucianism spread, as did Chinese counterpart of Zen=Chan |
Northern and Southern Song Dynasty |
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FAN KUAN: Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams |
Northern Song, 11th Century |
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China split into
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Northern and Southern in 1127 |
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Capitol moved to |
Hangzhou |
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MA YUAN: Bare Willows and Distant Mountains |
Southern Song, 13th Century |
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Mongol horders conquered China in 1279, led by Kublai Khan |
Yuan Dynasty |
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Ming Dynasty |
Forbidden City in Beijing |
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A group called Manzhous assumed control |
Qing Dynasties |
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Fell in 1911 |
Qing Dynasty |
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People's Republic Established |
1949 |
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Rectangular hall with pitched roof and projecting eaves |
Proto-type building |
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Arranged symetrically |
Temple precinct or complex |
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Imperial Palace, Forbidden City, Beijing |
Qing Dynasty, 17th century |
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Largest building in imperial palace compound
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Taihe Dian |
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Zoomorphic |
Having or representing animal forms or gods of animal form. |
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Best remembered for extending the Great Wall of China to a length of 1500 milesf |
Shi Huangdi |