Chinese Historical Survey:

1. Chinese Historical Survey: From the Yellow Emperor to Hu Jintao

2. Mythological Culture Heroes • Fuxi and Nugua: half animal, half human • Shen Nong: The Divine Farmer • The Yellow Emperor • Xi Ling: The discover of silk and inventor of weaving • Emperor Yao • Emperor Shun • Emperor Yu

3. Fuxi and Nuwa

4. Pangu • …and from his bones the mountains were made, and from his blood the rivers and seas evolved, and from his hairs, the trees and plants were created.. • And human beings? • …they evolved from his body lice and fleas

5. Fuxi: The Ox Tamer

6. Shennong: The Divine Farmer

7. The Yellow Emperor: the “Father” of the Chinese People

8. Xi Ling: discoverer of Silk and inventor of Weaving

9. Unreeling the thread

10. Emperor Yao

11. Emperor Shun

12. Shun performing divinations in the Palace

13. Shun escapes the fire

14. YU: “Without whom we should all have been fishes”

15. The Xia dynasty: myth or reality? • The Chinese claim that Yu’s son is the first emperor of the first dynasty • No written records have been found • No archeological sites definitely attributed to this dynasty • But prehistoric cultures existed throughout China • Was one of them Xia?

16. Prehistoric cultures in the Yellow River Valley

17. Yangshao Culture

18. Banpo Village

19. Shang Dynasty: Religious Conception of Ancestors

20. Oracle Bone

21. Shang Bronzes: symbols of power

22. Taotie Designs

23. Last evil King of the Shang: the “Lake of Wine” and the “forest of meat”

24. Zhou (Chou) Dynasty: King Wen (Cultured King)

25. King Wu (Martial King) and the Duke of Zhou

26. Map of Western Zhou: 1100-771 BC

27. Map of Eastern Zhou: 771-221 B.C.

28. The Mandate of Heaven The Mandate of Heaven, How beautiful and unceasing! Oh, how glorious Was the purity of King Wen's virtue! With blessings he overwhelms us. We will receive the blessings. They are a great favor from our King Wen. May his descendants hold fast to them

29. Division of Eastern Zhou • Spring and Autumn Period • Weak government • Relative peace • 200 feudal states • Warring States Period • Almost non-existent government • Anarchy and total warfare • 7 major states

30. Warring States Ideal Military Commander

31. Who was Confucius? (Kong Fuzi)

32. Confucius traveled from state to state seeking employment

33. Confucius playing the Qin (Zither)

34. Filial Piety (Xiao) is the root of all ethics and politics

35. Veneration of Ancestors

36. Ritual is Key to Confucian Government

37. Mencius (Mengzi) developed Confucian ideas

38. Zhou dynasty tomb

39. Warring States Artifacts

40. The Triumph of Qin:The Fa Jia (Legalist School) • Lord Yang • Han Feizi • Li Su

41. Qin Shi Huang Di: The Unifier of China

42. Map of the Qin Dynasty

43. Terracotta Warriors

44. Tomb of Qin Shi Huang

45. Qin the Unifier • Standardized writing • Standardized weights and measures • Standardized axle widths • Abolished feudalism and class separation by birth • Created private property of land and government taxation of land • Set up centralized governmental structures

46. Han Dynasty: a class struggle between feudal and centralized government • Xiang Yu • Liu Bang

47. Map of the Han Dynasty: China’s first Imperial Dynasty

48. Map of the Silkroad: the great trading highway between East and West

49. Han: 202BC to 220 AD

50. Han: Centralized government, control of trade