ancient+Chinese

This paper is on the __Ancient Chinese__ ﻿__Civilization__﻿. **Christine will be working on religion and what jobs they usually have the colour I am going to use is pink, ** **Aiza will be working on the government and what the chinese do for fun i will be using the colour purple , Ericka will be working on culture and what they wear and the colour she will be using will be blue  and, Miranda will be working on emperors and history and the colour she will be using will be green . We chose the Ancient Chinese civilization because we want to learn about the Chinese culture and stuff like their religions and traditions .**

ANCIENT JOBS Ancient China there were nine different jobs based on their social standing. The lowest class would be merchants and traders their class is called Shang. The second class is the Gong class and they jobs were craftsmen artisans and many of these people worked for the government. The third class is the Nong class their jobs were farmers and peasants. The fourth class is the Shi class the top class, their members were educated and usually ran government planned battles. If you were in the upper class you would have a lot of money and have a great life but as for the others who had to work for a living they had to work hard. The farmers had houses made of mud and straw. As a farmer your diet was noodles, bread and bean curd. As the emperors changed there were different ways in government and societies worked and how people were to preform their jobs. Sometimes the farmers would sell their daughter or daughters to the higher class as a servant. China is one of the most oldest civilizations, Chinese religion is one of the most oldest religions. These days Chinese religion is a complex mix of Chinese folk religion, Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Communist anti-religious sentiment. In china men were usually soldiers and labourers. They had more control than the woman and were to take care of their home. The men were scholors, merchants, slaves or government officials. The jobs of the ancient chinese woman were to live by rules set by the Confucius in his analects. Acorrding to the Confucius, the woman were only an object. If the men hand daughters they would not be named they would be referred by daughter#1 and so on. The chinese woman were to obey their father and husband and her sons. The woman were not aloud an education because they weren't worthy enough. The chinese woman were not aloud to raise their voice with their husband. They were slaves to their husbands after their marriage. The Chinese men were aloud to have more than one wife. If the Chinese woman's husband died they were not aloud to re-marry if they did they would be killed. The main job of the Chinese woman were to bear her sons. The three main religions are Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism although it has been said that the Confucianism is a philosophy school rather than religion. ancestors were worshiped because it was believed that they could control the events that happens on earth, they also worshiped the mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, lakes and earth were some natural things that were worshiped. Most of the information indicates that Chinese religion began and evolved eternally without influence from other countries. The earliest form of writing was the sacred oracle bones. The woman where to stay home and bound to their home. Buddhism first came to china when emperor Han Dynasty. Buddhism first came to china from India and went on through to Asia. Confucianism is the most important aspect of the Chinese life. The moral system was based on empathy. It was centered around the namely li or ideal action, yi or righteousness, and ren or human compassion or empathy. This is the chinese word for love 愛.




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 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">wrote a book entitled "Children of the Yellow Earth" after he saw the Liu **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Changshan 's collections of artifacts. Some of Liu's artifact collections are **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">several axes, knives, and other objects of stones and many of them are **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">very well preserved and exceptionally fine artifact in the early year of 1920. **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Liu had to bought all the in habitans of this single village, that's why his **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">collections are all remarkable, where the farmers had collected **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">some of their desired objects in the field of the Yang Shan Tsun. Soon their **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">cultured become known as the "Yangshao”. **


 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In between 7,000 and 5,000 years ago historians found out what life was **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">like and they looked at the four different site of it because they said if many **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">culture that intermingled in town they don't consider it to be a good **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">representative of pure Yangshao Culture. The Ancestors of the Chinese **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">people are the first who began to build their own permanent settlements. **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The archeologist found some of the tools like arrowheads and spear points **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">that Yangshao people used it to hunt some wild animals like boar, leopards, **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">rhinoceros and small animals like rabbits, raccoons, rats, and foxes. But **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">after they came the forest is filled with the wild animals and wild hunting is **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">not their only source of meat. There are some domestic animals like dogs **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">and pigs that are all around the village and the evidence of animals that **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">turned up into that area: Goats, sheep, and cattle. The Yangshao people **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">made hooks and harpoons to catch fish into the river. In the outer part of **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">the village you will found another group of people and they usually called as **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Hemudu people. They live near the Hangzhou Bay. **

= <span style="color: #006680; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">** Ancient Chinese Clothing ** =


 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In the Ancient China people they usually wore a long robes tied with sash. **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The material most used in China was silk. It was discovered right there in **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">China. All of their clothes are made of silk and it has a beautiful and colorful **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">designs like flowers. As we all know that silk is came from silkworm cocoons. **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The material most used in China was silk. Men tied their hair in knot style **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">and it is covered with a cloth or hat. The women usually tied their hair **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">twisted and braided and decorated with pins or combs. Until now many **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Chinese people wearing this kind of outfit because their tradition. Some of **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">the example of the dress their wearing is “A black and gold silk robe and a **
 * <span style="color: #006680; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">long decorative dragon robe. **

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(AIZA) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ancient china was an empire. They were always trying to expand their borders.The consolidation of china into an empire under the rule of a single sovereign had constituted a revolution as deep and far-reaching a the twentieth-century revolution by which that empire was over-thrown and from which the Chinese People’s public emerged as the final victor. The revolution also expanded the frontiers of China until they approximated those of the present republic.As a consequence of this expansion, Chinese armies advanced into the deserts of central Asia as far as the Caspian Sea and opened for the first time a safe.All power within the government of the people’s republic of china is divided among three bodies:The communist party of china, the central people’s government (state council),and the people’s liberation army (PLA).This Article is concerned with the formal structure of the state, its departments and their responsibilities. most, but not all, positions of significant power in the state structure and in the army are occupied by members of the communist party of china which is controlled by a politburo standing committee of the communist party of china a group of 4 to 9 people, usually all older men, who make all decisions of national significance. As the role of the army is to enforce this decisions, the support of the PLA is important in maintaining party rule. ( C.P. FITZGERALD, 107 ). **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This ancient civilization is the most important and interesting ancient china civilization. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">chinese fan art and fun culture **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In ancient times, Chinese used plant leaves or bird feather as a fan to create a breeze in summer. This was the most primitive form of the fan. The first real fan was made back in the era of Yao and Shun <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">th <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ousands of years ago. The fan has constituted an important part of Chinese art and culture since then.Initially,the fan functioned as a tool to generate a current of air in hot weather or to help start a fire. Now electric fans such as ceiling fans have taken the place. Other functions of the fan remain. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fan Art **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fans became to catch the attention of ancient Chinese artists unknowingly. Thereafter, a unique fine art gradually took shape in the history of Chinese fine art. Fan art usually includes Chinese calligraphy, paintings, or poems on the sectors. Special skills are needed to write or paint on them subject to different types of fans and different materials used. It’s much more difficult than doing the same thing on a piece of smooth paper. One of the most favorite types among calligraphers is the folded fan with paper sectors. **


 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif'; text-decoration: none;">ANCIENT CHINA﻿﻿ **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">China is located in Asia. It has the oldest surviving civilization in the world. Ancient China began between 500,000 and 5000 years ago. The first villages were built about 5000 years ago. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">No single date marks the end of Ancient China.The Chinese have many Ancient traditions and celebrations. The dragon is a sign of good luck. The early China civilization was ruled by a series of emperors from Different dynasties. These dynasties were royal families. Shih Haung Ti **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">established the Ch'in Dynasty, united the Chinese kingdom known as the Warring States, became the first emperor (221 B.C.), and began building the Great Wall of China. Thousands of terra-cotta clay statues were placed to guard his tomb. The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) was a peaceful time when paper and ink were invented and schools built. The Tang Dynasty (618 A.D.-906 A.D.) was known for their public systems, art including pottery, Sculpture, and painting, as well as their gunpowder. //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">China’s ancient government was communist . They didn't let their ////<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">people speak out to other countries and most were called off to war against the ////<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">Hun. //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">Also they had Dynasties (Royal families called to Royalty by the Mandate of Heaven yes that is true. china was despotic, the emperors had absolute power over the civilians. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">The Ancient Chinese are known for their many inventions and  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">Technological advancements includingthe development of writing, a Calendar, Gunpowder, printing, silk, paper, and the compass. The  **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">Earliest book was printed in 868 A.D. **
 * RECREATION OF THE ANCIENT CHINESE **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Fax','serif';">cockfighting <span style="font-family: 'Kozuka Gothic Pro H','sans-serif';">Cockfighting is a kind of traditional recreation way in China’s ancient times. It’s a popular pastime means. People utilize cock’s bellicose instinct, select and foster cocks, then let them mutual fight for amusement. In order to win, special armor for cock, protect the body of cock. Or put the sharp metal hook on cock’s claws; strengthen the attack of the cock. In addition, some people daub fox oil on the cockscomb. Fox is natural enemy of cock. Fry the fat of and avoid once smelling the smell. Ancient Chinese racked their brains for cockfighting winning. **

= ﻿**__EMPERORS AND WAR!__** =
 * The first emperor was Qin Shi-huang. He was only 13 years old at the time. He had three goals: 1 **