Causes for Constructing the Great Wall of China Jiajun Wang (Sean) Kwai Manor Causes for Constructing the Great Wall of China As is known to all‚ China is a country with an ancient civilization‚ which has existed for over 5‚000 years. Historical scholars from all over the world are interested in every single historic relic of this country. The Great Wall of China‚ marvel of architecture in this world‚ played a significant role in the Chinese historical
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belong to the Chinese diet culture. In hot Stone Age‚ Chinese people realized to use fire to cook animal and seed of plants. Thus‚ Chinese diet culture has the prototype. Tang dynasty is the most open dynasty in Chinese history. Tang ’s makes China flourish. People became rich. Significant advancement happened in every part of tang dynasty. By Silk Road‚ many food income to China such as grapes‚ walnuts‚ carrots‚ peppers‚ Lima bean‚ spinach (also called the Persian dish)‚ cucumber‚ pomegranate‚ etc
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Literature and Time "What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age" --- Peter Brodie What the quote above is saying is that literature is left within the time that it was written. So when one reads a piece of literature‚ they read about more than just what the author writes. They also may learn what kind of person the author is‚ or when the author lived. Literature gives readers insight as to what life was like around a certain time period. This can be seen
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China’s Festivals Xinhuanet 2003-02-26 17:46:56 Spring Festival | Lantern Festival | Qingming | Lantern Festival | Mid-Autumn Festival | National Day | Spring Festival The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the Winter Sacrifice. It was a custom practiced by the people of primitive society. The Spring Festival marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year‚so the first meal is
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Lin wants to pursue his own happiness with his fiancée in Shanghai‚ while his classmate in college‚ Xiao Jiye‚ another main character‚ insists that he should go back to the frontier to build socialist China dreams collectively at the expense of his personal comfort and happiness. Moreover‚ Xia Qianru‚ one of the main female characters in the paly‚ is also involved in constant conflicts between fulfilling his wish by staying in Shanghai with him and going to the remote frontier building a utopian
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Development of Man The early pre-humans were called Australopethecines which means “Southern Apes”. There were four species under this. a) Australopithecus ramidus b) Australopithecus afarensis c) Australopithecus africanus d) Australopithecus robustus Australopithecines were primates which had brains no bigger than the chimpanzee’s‚ shorter than us and have long arms because they are bipedal which means they walk using both their hands and feet. The oldest Australopithecine skeleton
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the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)‚ this five-thousand-mile stretch of trade routes was possibly the world’s first “Internet.” According to document one‚ Han’s expansion of trade has increased immensely from the Silk Road. Xian‚ the capital city of the Tang Dynasty is regarded as the starting point of the Silk Road. The Silk Road stretched to today’s Turkey. It is the road connection and trade passageway between China and Middle and West Asia and even Europe. Because of how convenient and easy this made
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Snyder‚ David Hinton translation. “Spring View.” The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. A New Directions Book: 100 Innes Herdan. “Spring Prospect.” The Three Hundred Tang Poems. The Far East Book. 1973: 236-237 Minford&Lau. “Spring Scene” Classical Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty. 772-774 Patsy Price Hammett. “Looking at the Springtime” The Appeal of the Poetry of Li Po and Tu Fu. Taipei 1980: 171-177
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Chinese poetry From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileQuatrain_on_Heavenly_Mountain.jpg Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozong_of_Song_China o Emperor Gaozong of Song China Emperor Gaozong Chinese poetryis HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry o Poetry poetrywritten‚ spoken‚ or chanted in the HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language o Chinese language Chinese language. The various versions
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similar among rich and poor. Chinese people build one floor of a building everyday. Some examples of beautiful buildings are the Liuhe Pagoda of Hangzhou‚ (it was build during the Song Dynasty); the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda‚ (it was build during the Tang Dynasty); the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the Palace museum‚ (it was built during the Ming Dynasty). The Zhouzheng Garden in Suzhou‚ it’s one of the most finest gardens in China. Now the architecture in China became modern‚ there are still ancient
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