Download The transformation of society

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I.Rivers
• Yangzi / Yangtze River
• Yellow River (Huanghe)
III. Routes
The “Silk Road”
The route along which
Mahayana
Buddhism entered China
the Grand Canal before 1250
IV. Other
Features
Gobi Desert
The North China
Plain
Tibetan Plateau
Sichuan Basin
Korean
Peninsula
Xiongnu territory
II.Cities
Luoyang / Loyang
Jiankang (modern Nanjing / Nanking)
Chang’an (modern Xi’an)
Kaifeng/K’ai-feng
The transformation of society
750 and 1050 compared
• Tang 618-907
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The An Lushan rebellion 755-757
• Five Dynasties (in the north) 907-960
• Ten Kingdoms (in the south) 907-980
• Liao (the Khitans) 915-1125
• Song 960-1279
Telling Time
• 12 hours per day beginning in the Warring States period
• 10 day weeks
• 12 months of 30 days. Beginning in Eastern Han named by
number, 1st moon, 2nd moon, etc.
• four seasons (defined by the solstices and equinoxes)
• year (beginning and ending at the winter solstice)
• 12 animals (rat, ox, etc.) already by the Qin dynasty
• 60 year cycles (10 “heavenly stems” and 12 “earthly
branches”) beginning in the Western Han (a1, b2… a11, b12,
c 1… i11, j12)
counting years:
from the first year of a ruler’s accession
(Shang, Zhou, early Han)
by the “reign period” within the reign of a ruler
(beginning in 110 BC)
example
When was January 1, 755 in Tang terms?
In Chinese it was 大唐 玄宗天寶13年(甲午)閏11月14日
Which translates as:
Great Tang
the emperor (posthumously known as) Xuanzong (Mysterious-Ancestor)
his reign period named Tianbao (Heavenly
Treasure)
the 13th year
(the jiawu year )
intercalary 11th month
14th day
Liao
Song and
surrounding
states, ca.
1100
Tang
Song
Transport
networks, Tang
and Song
compared
Huai River as the dividing line between north and south
Scroll of Kaifeng in the 11th century:
Website: tutorials, slide shows, and scrolls
View the scroll “Qingming shanghe tu”
(Going up the River during the Qingming
Festival)