Chinese herbology

The lute is a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets has many related forms in many different Asian cultures. The most well-known are the Chinese pipa, Japanese biwa, the Vietnamese dan ty, and the Korea bipa. There is confusion and disagreements about the origin of pipa in China. This is due to the fact that the word pipa was used in ancient texts to describe a variety of plucked instrument throughout the era of dynasties well as the differing accounts given in these ancient…

Qin Shi Huang Di ordered the construction of his mausoleum which included the Terracotta Army shortly after ascending to the throne. Over 700,000 labourers were involved, unfortunately this was halted amid revolts a year after Qin Shi Huang Di's death. Qin Shi Huang Di wanted the Terracotta Army built so that he can be protected by them in the afterlife. The Terracotta Army, and the other statues found in the Emperor's mausoleum indicates the beliefs of Ancient China had regarding death and…

The Exploration of Confucianism and Legalism in Ancient China Cultivated in a nation with a rich, five-thousand-year history, ancient Chinese philosophy has long been debated by humanity, especially with regards to the noble myth – human nature. As Chan declared in his book, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, “It can be readily seen that Legalism is entirely incompatible with other schools, especially Confucianism, which is bitterly attacked” (Chan, p.251). It is generally accepted that the…

Sun Yat-sen took several years to take succeed in his chinese revolution. He was able to accomplish this through many years of persistence and gaining a very extensive network throughout several neighboring countries. Without his extensive network he would have failed many times. He overcame several exiles and seeing several other revolutionist squashed. Sun Yat-sen created one of the best revolutions of the 20th century. Chinese dynasties are known for lasting a very long time, and the current…

The spectacular author and civil rights activist, Pearl S. Buck, was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She grew up bilingual, knowing both English and Chinese since her mother was from China ("Pearl S. Buck”). She spent ten years of her life living in Nanjing, China. The Chinese in Nanjing were much more influenced by Western ideas than the Northern farmers, and Pearl Buck began to write about the young people's conflicts between the old and new ways of culture ("A Guide to…

The protagonist, the Monkey King is very arrogant at the beginning of the story. The Monkey King thinks he knows everything and that makes him very unlikeable. Even though he knows a lot about kung-fu he thinks he's better than anyone else. The main idea he struggles with is being a monkey. Even if he is rule of all the monkeys he wants to be a god. The Monkey King hears about a party that the gods and goddesses are have and crashes it. The gods and goddesses turn out to be even more stuck up…

Likewise, Chinese leaders influenced by Confucianism emphasize the importance of developing subordinates, resembling a characteristic of servant leadership, in contrast to Daoism, which considers these actions as useless. The philosophy of Legalism departs the philosophies…

of the gods (Ellis and Esler). The ruler could only stay a ruler if he was kind to the people. The dynastic cycle is an important political theory in chinese history. According to this theory, every dynasty goes through a culture cycle (Donn). Feudalism was between 1046 B.C-256 B.C. Feudalism is a dominant system which was first used by the chinese (Ellis and Esler). Feudalism is a very organized…

In this week's discussion, I would like to discuss the concept and development of Li along with the Five Cardinal Relationships and Ren(Jen). I find it really interesting that at first the true meaning of Li was “sacrifice” from which this idea in relation to Confucianism became more of a way of holding sacrifices. Sacrifices became served in a specific way for it to be considered Li and overtime eventually became known as something similar to ceremonial code. When discussing Li the connection…

to become closed for private use, and this negatively affected both the farmers of then and now who needed this land to graze their animals. The next part that related to the terms we learned was the discussion about the Chinese government. The article states that the Chinese government do not allow…