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4 days ago · China - Ancient Dynasties, Rituals, Oracle Bones: The name Zhou appears often in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang kingdom, sometimes as a friendly tributary neighbor and at other times as a hostile one. This pattern is confirmed by records found at the Zhou archaeological site.
4 days ago · China - Feudalism, Zhou Dynasty, Confucianism: The feudal states were not contiguous but rather were scattered at strategic locations surrounded by potentially dangerous and hostile lands.
18 hours ago · A strong, charismatic, vengeful, ambitious, well-educated woman who enjoyed her husband's absolute affection, Wu was the most powerful and influential woman at court during a period when the Tang dynasty was at the peak of its glory.
5 days ago · In the late Western Zhou Dynasty (11 th century -- 771 BC), the city was captured by the West Rong tribe and abandoned since then. Since 1976, large-scale excavations have been carried out at the site by the Shaanxi provincial cultural relic administrative committee, the Archaeology Department of the Peking University, and the Archaeology ...
5 days ago · Fenghao, one of the capitals of the Zhou Dynasty (1100-221BC), which replaced the Shang, was only 15 kilometers southwest of present day Xi'an. Fenghao was then the political, economic and cultural center of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
3 days ago · Yijing, an ancient Chinese text, one of the Five Classics (Wujing) of Confucianism. The main body of the work, traditionally attributed to Wenwang (flourished 12th century bc), contains a discussion of the divinatory system used by the Zhou dynasty wizards. A supplementary section of “commentaries”.
1 day ago · Xitou site, Xunyi county, Shaanxi province, from the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) The area, tucked in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, with the Jinghe River running across, preserves the keys to tracing the origins of Chinese civilization.
