Ah Xian is highly skilled in the art of ceramics and sculpting, using a variety of different materials, including concrete, cloisonné, resin-fibreglass, jade, Ox-bone inlay, porcelain, latex and bronze. His ceramic works mainly consist…
The first recorded Chinese dynasty for which there is both documentary and archaeological evidence. Shang china was centred in the North china Plain and extended as far north as modern Shandong and Hebi provinces and westward through present-day Henan province. The architects of the Shang period built houses of timber over rammed-earth floors, with walls of wattle and daub and roofs of thatch. Pottery objects were abundant, and Shang potters made fired-clay sectional molds for casting bronzes. Some of the pottery gives evidence of possibly having been shaped on a potter’s wheel.…
The Dynasty that I chose was the Sung Dynasty. During the Sung Dynasty, China was at its Golden Age of artwork. Some of the best artwork that was created during this time period set the tone for some of the most important traditions in painting that will follow. This era consisted of mainly small paintings on paper that captured a small glimpse of nature. These paintings were only the beginning of what was to become a major form of art.…
Human Sacrifice, during the Shang Dynasty, affected the economy because it gave people jobs, but it also killed the members of the society. “When a king was buried, slaves, servants and animals, were led down the ramps into the pit.” The slaves and servants were sacrificed because the Shang believed that they would continue to serve their masters in the afterlife. “ When their masters died, the slaves were sometimes sacrificed…” When a master died, a new master would come to the estate, with his slaves and start hiring new servants, it gave those people jobs which opened up their jobs to the jobless. “There they were sacrificed as part of the Shang belief that the king must continue to be served in the afterlife.”…
Rome and China’s Shang Dynasty are like twins; they are nearly the same in how they functioned. However, no matter how alike they may seem to be, these prime empires had differences. Among their similarities there is the likeness of what they contributed to the world, how they started before gaining territorial dominance, and a distinction in their beliefs. Rome and the Shang Dynasty have similar contributions to the world.…
Han Dynasty Han dynasty was founded by a government official named Liu Bang in 206 B.C. Over 400 years Han kingdom expanded China’s boundary and it brought peace and prosperity to other people in the kingdom. Some achievements were Silk Road, Papermaking, Iron technology (cast iron) plowshares;Moldboard plow (kuan), Glazed pottery, Wheelbarrow, Seismograph (Chang Heng), Compass, Ship's rudder, Stirrups, Drawloom weaving, Embroidery for decorating garments, Hot Air Balloon, Chinese Examination System. Rich farmers used oxen to pull plows; poor people pulled plows themselves. The biggest products in the Han economy were iron, salt, copper work, and silk.…
advanced in literature, the decorative arts, and painting, which flourished under the rule of the Ming, and later Ming goods were in high demand, when trading goods between countries. From Gunpowder to Guns: Gunpowder was first used to excavate mines, build canals, channel irrigation, set off fireworks, and kill off disease-carrying bugs. But later, the Chinese put the gunpowder into long tubes, which was used to threaten their opponent. Gunpowder was used to explosives, catapults, and mostly used when they were in contact with their enemy.…
Ancient China is made up of a number of independent states that were in the north of today’s China. Two particularly powerful states that had some control over the other states are the Shang and the Zhou. In around 500 BC, the Zhou began to lost control and the states fell into a period of war and chaos as each of the state are fighting over each other’s power. Nomadic tribes to the north of China during this period invaded the states wherein these tribes had become aware of the disharmony among the Chinese states…
Early Greek art on pots were made of some sort of red clay, and etched in black figures as a unique decoration. Decorations were not only just ordinary decorations for pots and vases. It would show scenes of women cooking, doing house chores, taking care of children, or perhaps weaving. ( Bailey, 43, 44 ) More expensive pots were hand made by special craftsmen. It usually took two people to make these pots.…
China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and has been the largest and most advanced economy for much of recorded history. China’s ancient history is divided into three eras: Pre-Imperial era (ca. 10,000 – 221BC), Early Imperial era (221BC – 960AD) and Late Imperial era (960 – 1911AD). During the Pre-Imperial era, the tribes living around the Yellow River area, were practicing agriculture. The earliest silk remains date to the early third millennium BC.…
The Chinese used gunpowder for blasting agents, by digging holes in sides of the mountain and putting the gunpowder down in the hole. Tthe saltpeter in the gunpowder acts as an oxidizer, and the sulfur and charcoal combine together to act as fuel. Charcoal, sulfur. and saltpeter grounded together, the ingredients formed a powder that was referred to as serpentine. All the ingredients are combined with a liquid, commonly called water or wine and then pushed through a screen to form small pellets.…
The Chinese used charcoal as a fuel by cooking wood. As an oxidizer, they used potassium nitrate from decayed animal manure, and sulfur was found in volcanic regions. These ingredients combined took form of a black powder. When it is lit in a confined space, most of the powder burns. As a result, hot gas and heat are released into the air under great pressure, causing the powder to explode.…
Each individual dynasty has their own unique traits, but it is possible to relate the course of a dynasty’s life to a specific pattern. At its peak, the Former Han dynasty took up most of the Southern and Western parts of China. During this time, the dynasty was located just East of Lo-lang right along the Gobi desert to the just west of Kashia, and then the territory looped back around right west of Lanzhou, and then down merely south of Hanoi. The former Han dynasty existed from 206 B.C.E, to 8 B.C.E. The Han are known for many things including building a canal from the yellow river to the northwest Chinese capital, The “Salt, and Iron Debate”, and their Confucian transformation. This pattern described previously is defined as the dynastic…
1.3.2 Evidence and theories of collapse Nonetheless, the peace and prosperity of the Western Han dynasty was continuously tested throughout its time. It began with a war that came before the creation of the dynasty. A war between the Xiongu confederacy and Emperor Gaozu, formerly known as Lui Bang. It wasn’t until Emperor Gaozu realized his defeat, that the war ended and a treaty was negotiated with Xiongu.…
The Shang and Zhou Dynasties were considered two of the greatest time periods in all of China. This was the period in time were China started to become a more civilized and technologically advanced culture and people as a whole. This period in Chinese history came to be known as the Bronze Age of China due to the archaeological find that the people of the Shang and Zhou Dynasty began to learn how to work bronze and create art and fashion tools and other useful items from it such as weapons and tea kettles or sculptures. The Shang Dynasty is considered to be the time when China and it’s civilization first started to take full shape of its society and people as a civilized country and government.…