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What is the greatest period of time? |
Travel Info for the Chinese, which dynasty is considered the greatest, or maybe their is a few and they are known for different things? Travel Tips Han (206 BC - 220 AD) - Started to develop the trading route "Silk Road" to the West (reached Iran /Mediterranean Sea) - Invention of paper - Invention of the world's first water-powered armillary sphere - Han Music / lyrics (婕㈡▊搴? - "The great tales of History" 鍙茶 was written by a great historian 鍙搁Μ閬?anyone knows the English title of this great book?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/han_dynasty... Tang (618 - 907 AD) - "Silk Road" was the most famous trading route in the world at that time - Poetry(鍞愯┅) - Tang Tri-coloured Ceramics (鍞愪笁褰? - Pear Garden (姊ㄥ湌) for Chinese Opera was found - the most open-minded period in Chinese history, women could go out and had social lives (when compared with other period of time, women mostly were locked in their homes!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chinese_ope... below is a website listed 300 selected Tang Poems in Chinese and English http://www.chinapage.com/tang300.html... Below are websites and photo of Tang tri-coloured ceramics http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/0178... http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/image%3awes... Song (960 - 1279 AD) - Invention of gun powder - Song lyrics (瀹嬭), Poetry (瀹嬭┅), articles (鍙ゆ枃) - great development of Chinese painting skills - one of the most famous Chinese painting 娓呮槑涓婃渤鍦?was painted by 寮垫搰绔?in North Song Dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/song_dynast... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gunpowder... http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nsong/h... http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%e6%b8%85%e... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/along_the_r... http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/image%3aalo... Yuan (1279 - 1368 AD) - Ruled by the Mongolian, therefore it was the biggest country at that time, certainly the trading route "Silk Road" was even more developed - Opera (鍏冩洸,闆滃妵) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yuan_dynast... Ming (1368 - 1644 AD)- The ship building techniques were the best in the world at that time - Zheng He sailed all his way to the Cape of Good Hope from China! (too bad that the third Emperor of Ming decided to destroy and gave up building ship any longer - he prefer to save up the money for other things!) - inventon of printing system (movable type printing) - production of high quality porcelains - Ming Short stories / novels 涓夊湅婕旂京锛屾按婊稿偝锛岃タ娓歌 (were popular due to the invention of printing system, more people could afford to read printed articles instead of handscripts) - The world first Encyclopedia (total 22937 Chapters, binded altogether in total 11095 books) 姘告▊澶у吀 was prepared under the instruction of Emperor 鏄庢垚绁?- P.S. The Forbidden City was built in Ming Dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zheng_he... Ching (1644 - 1911 AD) - The first Chinese Dictionary (搴风啓澶у瓧鍏? was prepared under the supervision of Emperor 搴风啓 (he is one of the 3 smartest / best Emperors in Chinese history and he could speak Latin too) ; A complete guide of Chinese medicine herbs (鏈崏缍辩洰) was written; the finest skills ever found in history of various arts were developed, such as - painting, pottery, embroidery, opera...etc + those famous novels (娓呭皬瑾?- 绱呮〒澶? 鑱婇綃) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dream_of_th... P.S. I edited my answer and post some websites as references here for those who don't know much about Chinese History, there were some other dynasties which I also consider them were great but they were not as great as Han / Tang, however, they really contributed a lot in setting up the foundations of government policies / art & culture / science, ...etc. too. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/four_great_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/compass#chi... Other Travel Tips Ming tang. encyclopedias and other historical records were made in that time and the arts flourished. Qin, the life size terracotta soldiers Tang, lots of art & literature Qing, reached its greatest size tang Tang Dynasty - this is the golden period of China. Tang China was the most powerful empire in the world during 7th-8th centuries. Poetry, painting, sculpture and arts flourished during this period of time. A lot of the architecture and arts also travelled overseas. Even today, some called overseas "Chinatowns" as "Tang Ren Jie." Tang as in Tang Dynasty. Furthermore Tang poetry is the most widley read and studied by scholars and students over the last millennium. In fact the poetry provide excellent clues for the original sounds of Chinese spoken during Tang dynasty. Scholars have found when Tang poems are read in southern dialects such as Hokkien or Cantonese, they rhyme much better than Mandarin for the fact that the original spoken language in China (zhong yuan) because the southern dialects have preserved the original sounds. The same could be said about the Japanese reading of Chinese characters (kanji) that many of the sounds were preserved when Chinese literature and text were brought to Japan during the Tang dynasty by Buddhist monks and other scholars. |
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