1. By: Cristina and Haley
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2. The Han dynasty lasted from
206 BC until 220 AD. The Han
dynasty is a timeline when the
Han family were the rulers of
China.
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3. The Han dynasty is famous for the silk road. It was famous because
the silk road is the route that the Chinese took when they were trading
with the Romans. The Han dynasty is also famous for burying small
clay models of their homes and personal belongings and this has helped
us learn a lot about them. The Han dynasty was also famous for their
art. This was a good time for the Chinese empire because the culture
was similar all across China. Als0 the Han dynasty lasted around
450 years. Only 10% lived in the cities. Each city was surrounded by
a strong wall made of earth and stone.
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4. The Emperor always in the top. Civil
Servants where the closest to the
In the Han dynasty the social Emperor. Peasants were the
structure stayed the same as second closest to the top.
all of the other Ancient
Chinese Dynasties.
The Soldiers and
Servants where
always at the
bottom.
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5. The housing in the Han dynasty would differ from
place to place, most commonly it would be an entire
family living in one large rectangular house called a si
he yuan. A si he yuan had eight rooms. There were four
bed rooms, a kitchen, a lavatory, two rooms for
worshiping the gods. There were three wings in every
house, each wing had a veranda, a sunroom made from
cloth and bamboo. Each wing of the house also had a
court yard used for study, exercise and nature viewing.
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6. The rich rushed to imitate the imperial palace. They
built elaborate homes, decorated with drapery. They had
stone lions to furnished the family tombs. They always
charred how much the sculpture or lion cost to put in top
of the tombs. The rich lived in comfortable, large houses
with many rooms and fireplaces. They decorated there
house with furniture from Greek and Rome. Dinner was
very decorated. Kids were tutored in science, math,
math, literature, art, religion, and music. The rich did
not go to public schools. When it was cold, they had
coats created with squirrel and fox skins and leather
slippers.
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7. Food
When you think of Chinese food you think of rice.
In fact, rice was the first grain that was farmed in
China. There is archaeological evidence of rice farming
along the Yang-tse River as early as about 5000 BC.
People cooked rice by boiling it in water, the way they do
today. Or they made it into wine. Rice wine has been
popular in China since prehistory. During the Han
Dynasty, millet wine became very popular and was even
more popular to drink than tea. Also beginning in the
Han Dynasty, about 100 AD, Chinese people began to
make their wheat and rice into long noodles.
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8. Family Life
Most Chinese, both rich and poor, lived in large families.
Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, and children all lived together.
Family was extremely important in Han China. Most Chinese believed in the
ancient tradition of ancestor worship. They believed that the spirits of dead
men and women influenced what happened to them. The way to please
ancestors was to pray to them and to offer them food and drink. As you
probably know, Confucianism was based on the teaching of Kongfuzi
(called Confucius by westerners).Recall that Confucius believed that society
worked best when people acted properly based on their roles and their
relationships with others. Confucius believed that there were five basic
relationships: ruler and subject, husband and wife, father and son, older
sibling and younger sibling, friend and friend. Confucius taught that all
people must respect and obey those above them. In return, those above must
behave properly to those below. Confucianism, then, emphasized respect,
obedience, and responsibility. Along with the ancient tradition of close
family ties, these teachings helped to strengthen Chinese families. In turn,
strong families helped to strengthen the entire social structure of the Han.
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9. Marriage
There were a few different ways to get married in the
Han Dynasty one of them was a marriage with proposal.
That is when the male will give a gift to the female's
family, and both parents must agree to the marriage. A
different form of marriage is called succeeding marriage,
a succeeding marriage is when a girl is widowed the
younger brother can marry her, he can also do the same
for his step mother. It was believed that men should marry
around the age of 30 and girls around 20 you cannot get
married however if you are above these ages. There was no
divorce in ancient china. Once married a girl must move
in with her husbands family.
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10. Childbirth
Chinese women will often drink a strong herbal
potion which apparently would help to ease the strain
of labor. Custom dictates that women not fear the
laboring process, since birth is considered a women's
career to the ancient Chinese. Chinese women
traditionally would go through labor in an armchair
or futon. Once the baby is born they will often pray to
the goddess who helped them conceive with an offering
of sweet meats and incense.
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11. Childhood
In ancient china most children were not given an
education only the boys of a very rich family. Most
children worked at home on the farms planting crops
and picking weeds. Girls were never given an education
and had to do whatever their husbands mother tells them
to do. If a girl is part of a very poor family sometimes
because of poverty a family must sell their daughter to
a rich family. In ancient china having a son was much
more important than having a daughter so life was
much harder for females.
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12. Here in Canada we have a opportunity to become the
best we can but in the Han Dynasty the teachers were
more strict and they expected more from children. In the
Han Dynasty there was no public schools only the rich
boys were allowed to have a tutor. Instead here in
Canada all kids have equal rights and there is public
schools for anyone paid from HST. In the Han Dynasty
they didn´t have universities and they only worked for
their families. Here in Canada we have universities and
are able to work for those who will hire us. In Canada
girls have equal rights.
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13. Education
Only boys from rich families were given an
education and boys had to work very hard for political
rights. You did not learn math or science in school but
how to read and write. School started at 6 am and ended
at 4 pm. The student would sit on stools and the teacher
had the only chair. Test scores were the only thing that
mattered if you wanted to get a job, not how much
money you had or the family that you came from.
Schools normally took place in a temple and if there
was no school in your village you would go and stay
with your relatives or strangers.
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14. Religion
Under the Han Dynasty (about 200 BC to 200 AD), scholars
working for the emperors tried to find a way to combine Taoism
and Confucianism. They believed that the emperors should follow
the Tao, or the way, and help people to be good by rewarding good
deeds. In this way, people would naturally want to be good, and
wouldn't have to be forced into it. Around 500 AD, in the period of
the Three Kingdoms, Buddhism first came to China from India,
where the Buddha had lived and where Buddhism got started.
Actually there were Buddhists in China even during the Han
Dynasty, starting about 50 AD, but there got to be a lot more of
them under the Three Kingdoms. Some Buddhists were persecuted
by the emperors, but generally Buddhism was popular and
accepted. The T'ang Dynasty Empress Wu, for example, was a
Buddhist. But Taoism was still very strong in China too.
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15. God
The greatest God in the Han Dynasty is Dha-shi-
zhi, she broke the cycle of reincarnation with her great
love, and now welcomes souls to Heaven in the form of
flowers. Di-Cang is a great Buddhist who releases the
souls of the dead from the underworld. She is a
bodhisattva of Chinese Buddhism, whose name means
"the Strongest".
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16. Clothing
People in China generally wore tunics ( long t-
shirts). Women wore long tunics that went down to the
ground, with belts. Men wore shorter ones down to their
knees. Sometimes they wore jackets over their tunics. In
the winter, when it was cold, people wore padded jackets
on top of their tunics, and sometimes pants under them.
In early China, poor people made their clothes of hemp or
ramie. Rich people wore silk. Most people in China, both
men and women, wore their hair long. It was believed
that you got your hair from your parents, so it was
disrespectful to cut it.
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17. Art and Music
When Chinese people learned about Buddhism, under the Han
Dynasty, they also learned about Buddhist art styles in India, and these
new styles had a huge effect on Chinese art. Chinese sculptors learned to
make life-size stone statues. About the same time, traders on the Silk
Road began to bring Roman blown glass to China. Chinese potters,
perhaps trying to imitate blown glass, soon created porcelain. Around the
same time, Chinese artists invented paper and began to use it for
painting on. They created new works of literature and music. Beautiful
murals were painted on the walls of palaces. Scroll painting began.
Craftsmen made jade jewellery and carvings, gold ornaments and belt
hooks, delicate paintings with wire thin brush strokes. Iron was used for
making plows and other cast iron objects. Glazed pottery was brightly
painted with lively hunting scenes, mountains, trees, clouds, dragons,
tigers, and bears. Their medicine was advanced. They invented
acupuncture.
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18. Festivals
By the time of Han Dynasty, the major traditional
Chinese festivals had become large public events. The
Han Dynasty had many large festivals to celebrate
cultural and social reasons. One of the most important
festivals was Chinese new year. You would commonly
see the people dressed in red and gold because those are
lucky colors to the Chinese. In this festival there will be
dragon costumes, lots of lights, and fireworks. The
gifts were usually money that you keep safe till the rest
of the year for good luck.
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19. Conclusion
The Han Dynasty was one of China’s most famous
dynasties of all. The Han Dynasty lasted from 206 BC
until 220 AD. During the four centuries that the Han
Dynasty remained unified, they brought forth several
major cultural and scientific achievements to China.
One of these achievements were the establishment of the
Silk Road. One of the most well known achievements of
the Han Dynasty was the establishment of the Silk
Road, a road system that made it possible for a person to
go from Beijing to Guangzhan on foot in 56 days.
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20. Information Bibliography
Books:
Exploring Daily Life During the Han Dynasty
Ancient China
Websites:
http://file.pokok.edu.hk/~cyberfair/cf2006/eng/chapter1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_marriage
http://www.ancientchinalife.com/ancient-china-children.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/179408/education/47455/Ancient-China
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/people/school.htm
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Han/han-religion.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Chinese
http://china.mrdonn.org/han.html
http://teachergenius.teachtci.com/exploring-daily-life-during-the-han-dynasty/
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/
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21. Great Wall of CHINA:
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=6482
Han Dynasty Map:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Han_Dynasty_Plain_map.PNG
Han Dynasty Painting:
http://www.ask.com/wiki/History_of_Chinese_art
Clay model art:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hand/hd_hand.htm
Social structure:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/goldenages/china.cfm
Emperor:
http://www.longtochinatravel.com/chinese-history/default.aspx
Civil Servants:
http://jspivey.wikispaces.com/Compare+the+development+of+traditions+and+institutions+in+major+civilizations,+Indian,+Chinese,+and+Greek,Roman+Sun+Hong+Jeffrey+Ahn+B
+Block
Peasant:
http://aldworthapworld.wikispaces.com/D5.+Describe+social+problems+faced+by+working+class+in+western+Europe,+Russia+and+China
Merchants:
http://aldworthapworld.wikispaces.com/D5.+Describe+social+problems+faced+by+working+class+in+western+Europe,+Russia+and+China
Soldiers and Servants:
http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/History_of_the_Han_Dynasty
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22. Dha-shi-zhi God:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/religion/gods.htm
Music:
http://www.chinaexploration.com/TopAttractions/The-Art-of-Guqin-Music.html
Housing:
http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/11/notes-queries-chou-literature-iron-age.html
Wealthy:
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/world/tours/china/china30.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty
Food:
http://my.opera.com/SandraChina/blog/index.dml/tag/Food
Family Life:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7893054@N02/
Marriage:
http://www.dreamweddingguide.com/general/han-dynasty-marriage/
Clothing:
http://www.starferrymusings.com/?p=974
Childhood:
http://www.goodorient.com/blog/?p=408
Childbirth:
http://kaleidoscope.cultural-china.com/en/118Kaleidoscope8185.html
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23. Canada vs China:
http://kyleshewfeltgymfest.com/2010/12/20/china-vs-canada-mar-25th/
Education:
http://china.chinaa2z.com/china/html/history%20and%20culture/2008/20081201/20081201164121838765/20081201165621323495_1.html
Religion:
http://www.xiantangdynasty.com/lao/doce/6the-10.htm
Festivals:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/china/happy-as-a-pig/2007/02/22/1171733954178.html
Conclusion:
http://mariahmeador.edu.glogster.com/false/
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