History and Religions of Ancient China and India

History and Religions of Ancient China and India

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This paper is intended to give information regarding the different dynasties, and Chinese arts and where India was originated and the different crafts of India.

What major events characterize each of the four Dynasties of early Chinese history?    Xia Dynasty is related to Erlitou or Longshan cultures.  Xia Dynasty was between 2100-1600 BCE and the first to produce the cast bronze.  It used the vision bones.  Xi Zhong was attributed in legend with creating a wheeled vehicle.  He used a compass square.  He was the first king that succeeded by his child, which his son, instead of a man that was chose for his founded by Yu the Great.  He was born in 2059 and was known to be a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.  He was a semi-legendary figure that spends over 13 years putting a stop to the great flood and transported irrigation to the Yellow River. ( www.afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china.htm)  

Zhou (Chou) Dynasty- There was a categorized supporting and communal system with Zhou, at its imperial house at its summit.  The authority was conferred upon patrician families as lords of their domain or moralities.  It gave the system a hierarchical order of inherited cults.  The rival semi-self-governing and the warring states were between 475-221 BCE.  (www.afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china.htm)  

Quing (Ch’ing) Dynasty -It was a Manchu dynasty that sustained the monetary development of the late Ming, which lead to wealth but also smugness and a theatrical increase in inhabitants.  There were strains in the polity that were strengthened by a hasty assimilation of large new territory.( www.afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china.htm)  

Ming Dynasty – Ming was the first emperor, Hong Wu.  Hong Wu laid the essentials of an authority’s supporting civilization.  It was the inward looking state with an importance on its artistic base.   (www.afe.easia.columbia.edu/timelines/china.htm)  

Describe at least three works of early Chinese art; how do these pieces reflect Chinese culture and values?  The Song Dynasty is a countryside painting that got better under the Song Dynasty than under the T’ang Dynasty that came prior.  The picture was showing the simple likes of mountains, rivers and trees.  This was trying to give off a feeling to show the more important things about the flower or birds, instead of showing every detail.  This started in 1200 AD.  The Bodhisattvas was another art.  It had a lot of arms and eyes created by Zen Buddhists.  The Buddhists brought ideas from Indian art.  This art was to look like a god that has many arms to show that it had dissimilar powers.  The Daoism was another art as well.  The Daoism came as a nonspiritual school of thought with a philosophical.  (www.metmuseum.org)