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Chinese Historical Survey:

Chinese Historical Survey: From the Yellow Emperor to Hu Jintao Mythological Culture Heroes Fuxi and Nugua: half animal, half human Shen Nong: The Divine Farmer The Yellow Emperor Xi Ling: The discover of silk and inventor of weaving Emperor Yao Emperor Shun Emperor Yu Fuxi and Nuwa

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Chinese Historical Survey:

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  1. Chinese Historical Survey: From the Yellow Emperor to Hu Jintao

  2. Mythological Culture Heroes • Fuxi and Nugua: half animal, half human • Shen Nong: The Divine Farmer • The Yellow Emperor • Xi Ling: The discover of silk and inventor of weaving • Emperor Yao • Emperor Shun • Emperor Yu

  3. Fuxi and Nuwa

  4. Pangu • …and from his bones the mountains were made, and from his blood the rivers and seas evolved, and from his hairs, the trees and plants were created.. • And human beings? • …they evolved from his body lice and fleas

  5. Fuxi: The Ox Tamer

  6. Shennong: The Divine Farmer

  7. The Yellow Emperor: the “Father” of the Chinese People

  8. Xi Ling: discoverer of Silk and inventor of Weaving

  9. Unreeling the thread

  10. Emperor Yao

  11. Emperor Shun

  12. Shun performing divinations in the Palace

  13. Shun escapes the fire

  14. YU: “Without whom we should all have been fishes”

  15. The Xia dynasty: myth or reality? • The Chinese claim that Yu’s son is the first emperor of the first dynasty • No written records have been found • No archeological sites definitely attributed to this dynasty • But prehistoric cultures existed throughout China • Was one of them Xia?

  16. Prehistoric cultures in the Yellow River Valley

  17. Yangshao Culture

  18. Banpo Village

  19. Shang Dynasty: Religious Conception of Ancestors

  20. Oracle Bone

  21. Shang Bronzes: symbols of power

  22. Taotie Designs

  23. Last evil King of the Shang: the “Lake of Wine” and the “forest of meat”

  24. Zhou (Chou) Dynasty: King Wen (Cultured King)

  25. King Wu (Martial King) and the Duke of Zhou

  26. Map of Western Zhou: 1100-771 BC

  27. Map of Eastern Zhou: 771-221 B.C.

  28. The Mandate of Heaven The Mandate of Heaven, How beautiful and unceasing! Oh, how glorious Was the purity of King Wen's virtue! With blessings he overwhelms us. We will receive the blessings. They are a great favor from our King Wen. May his descendants hold fast to them

  29. Division of Eastern Zhou • Spring and Autumn Period • Weak government • Relative peace • 200 feudal states • Warring States Period • Almost non-existent government • Anarchy and total warfare • 7 major states

  30. Warring States Ideal Military Commander

  31. Who was Confucius? (Kong Fuzi)

  32. Confucius traveled from state to state seeking employment

  33. Confucius playing the Qin (Zither)

  34. Filial Piety (Xiao) is the root of all ethics and politics

  35. Veneration of Ancestors

  36. Ritual is Key to Confucian Government

  37. Mencius (Mengzi) developed Confucian ideas

  38. Zhou dynasty tomb

  39. Warring States Artifacts

  40. The Triumph of Qin:The Fa Jia (Legalist School) • Lord Yang • Han Feizi • Li Su

  41. Qin Shi Huang Di: The Unifier of China

  42. Map of the Qin Dynasty

  43. Terracotta Warriors

  44. Tomb of Qin Shi Huang

  45. Qin the Unifier • Standardized writing • Standardized weights and measures • Standardized axle widths • Abolished feudalism and class separation by birth • Created private property of land and government taxation of land • Set up centralized governmental structures

  46. Han Dynasty: a class struggle between feudal and centralized government • Xiang Yu • Liu Bang

  47. Map of the Han Dynasty: China’s first Imperial Dynasty

  48. Map of the Silkroad: the great trading highway between East and West

  49. Han: 202BC to 220 AD

  50. Han: Centralized government, control of trade

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