Chapter 8:
"Golden Age" of Chinese Achievement:
China was able to regain its unity under the Sui dynasty, the dynasty caused a vast extension of the country's canal system. These canals linked both the northern and southern China together. Although, the dynasty was eventually overthrown. What created the "golden age" was when the Tang and Song dynasty renewed unity. Which spark the "golden age" of arts and lit, poetry, landscape painting, ceramics, and the Song dynasty rising to Neo-Confucianism.
The Song dynasty was huge, the capital was in Hangzhou and was home to over a million people. During this time China's iron industry increased its input dramatically. Marco Polo called the Hangzhou "beyond dispute the finest and noblest city in the world." Although women in the Song dynasty were not thinking it was the "golden age." Some of the things women dealt with were; foot binding and males and females separate in every domain of life.
Chinese built the Great Wall to keep nomads out. Although the Chinese ended up forming relationships with these nomadic people, this was known as the "tribute system." Foreigners seeking access to China had to send a delegation to the Chinese court, where they would perform a Kowtow, series of rituals bowings and prostrations, and present their tribute.
Korea and China, there were efforts to plant Confucian values in Chinese culture in Korea and had "overwhelmingly negative" impact on Korean women. Chinese strongly disapproved of the free choice marriages in Korea as well as the practice of women singing and dancing.
Vietnam also borrowed heavily from Chinese culture. Adopting Confucianism, Daoism, Administrative. techniques, and the examination system. Vietnam retained a greater role for women. in social and economic life, despite the heavy Chinese influences.
Japan was another country that took and modeled some of the Chinese values and cultures but still stood more independently on their own and gave women a much freer role.
Religion in China. China inherited Buddhism when it entered the country via the Silk Road. With the collapse of the Han Dynasty around 200 C.E. discredited Confucianism and opened the door to alternative understandings of the world. Pure Land School's where opened and that is where Buddhism was practiced with an emphasis on salvation by faith without the meditation.
"Golden Age" of Chinese Achievement:
China was able to regain its unity under the Sui dynasty, the dynasty caused a vast extension of the country's canal system. These canals linked both the northern and southern China together. Although, the dynasty was eventually overthrown. What created the "golden age" was when the Tang and Song dynasty renewed unity. Which spark the "golden age" of arts and lit, poetry, landscape painting, ceramics, and the Song dynasty rising to Neo-Confucianism.
The Song dynasty was huge, the capital was in Hangzhou and was home to over a million people. During this time China's iron industry increased its input dramatically. Marco Polo called the Hangzhou "beyond dispute the finest and noblest city in the world." Although women in the Song dynasty were not thinking it was the "golden age." Some of the things women dealt with were; foot binding and males and females separate in every domain of life.
Chinese built the Great Wall to keep nomads out. Although the Chinese ended up forming relationships with these nomadic people, this was known as the "tribute system." Foreigners seeking access to China had to send a delegation to the Chinese court, where they would perform a Kowtow, series of rituals bowings and prostrations, and present their tribute.
Korea and China, there were efforts to plant Confucian values in Chinese culture in Korea and had "overwhelmingly negative" impact on Korean women. Chinese strongly disapproved of the free choice marriages in Korea as well as the practice of women singing and dancing.
Vietnam also borrowed heavily from Chinese culture. Adopting Confucianism, Daoism, Administrative. techniques, and the examination system. Vietnam retained a greater role for women. in social and economic life, despite the heavy Chinese influences.
Japan was another country that took and modeled some of the Chinese values and cultures but still stood more independently on their own and gave women a much freer role.
Religion in China. China inherited Buddhism when it entered the country via the Silk Road. With the collapse of the Han Dynasty around 200 C.E. discredited Confucianism and opened the door to alternative understandings of the world. Pure Land School's where opened and that is where Buddhism was practiced with an emphasis on salvation by faith without the meditation.
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