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1 day 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.
2 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.
3 days ago · China during the period of the Hou (Later) Zhou dynasty (951–960). The period of political disunity between the Tang and the Song lasted little more than half a century, from 907 to 960.
4 days ago · Guo State Museum. In 655 BC, Guo State was wiped out by the Jin vassal state. The cemetery of the Guo State was in today's Shang Cunling town. It is a large public cemetery from the period of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period.
5 days ago · In the Western Zhou Dynasty (1,100-771BC), the relationship between palace and capital city became closer, this is evident from the "Kao Gongji" (Notes on the Inspection of Engineering Work) recording the then planning system of the capital city of Luoyi.
1 day ago · The Tang dynasty ( / tɑːŋ /, [6] [tʰǎŋ]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a] ), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
2 days ago · Shen Zhou (1427-1509), a famous painter of the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), was the founding father of the WumenSchool. Shen styled himself after (Qi)nan, with sobriquet Shitian and later Baishi Weng, or Yutian Weng. People referred to Shen as Baishi Xiansheng. A native ofSuzhouCityinSouth China, Shen was born into an intellectual family.
