Introducing a New Product
China
what you will learn
China has changed in many ways including: the writing style, The architecture , economics, the fashion of clothing and the government as a whole.
These are only a few of the examples of how China has advanced over time, but the information here are apart of the essential history of China.
Technology - Past
Compass for sailors, to navigate the sea
Gunpowder made for weapon explosives or fireworks
Silk good for trading, warm, strong, and soft
Block printing one block is used on a whole page which is cut
Movable block printing separated characters arranged in frames, and was used over and over again
Chinese people during that time were into art, and pottery
They were into vigorous brush work
Paper-making made for writing on
Kristy Moy
Dynasty Past
The Tang Dynasty lasted for 300 years, same as the Song Dynasty
Tang Dynasty's armies conquered North and West of China
First woman to ever conquer China, was Wu Zhao
Tang strengthened the government
Expanded its networks of roads and canals
Lowered taxes from the peasants, because it made the empire stop from rising
Tang dynasty fell into rebellion
The Tang and Song dynasties were the most advanced empires in the world
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Government - Past
The Tang dynasty had a powerful government
They traded silk, silver, tea, gunpowder,
Lowered peasants taxes
Good trading system
Buddhism came into Chinese culture
Spread of education and wealth
China reached golden age
Southern cities grew rich
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Present - Technology
Over the past years technology has advanced
People put chemicals in products .For example, there were chemicals in powdered milk, and made the babies suffer. Another example is, there were chemicals in candies which were sent to other countries and they were affected.
China developed goods for other countries
China has created a massive technology force that no comparison.
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Present - Dynasty
The Chinese civilization has no longer called itself a dynasty.
Although the Chinese and American have very separate beliefs and customs;they share a similar organization of authority.
The Chinese people have a house of representatives and a ruling congress just like America.
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Present - Government
The government had also advanced over the years
The government became a republic
There were no more dynasties
China fell into communism
The communists changed the traditional Chinese into simple Chinese writing
They thought traditional Chinese writing was difficult to write
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Past Writing system
How has the writing system changed over time?
There was a special writing system made up of symbols that represent ideas or meanings. These symbols were: modern words, Homophones, compounds, numbers, ideograms, and pictographs
In the past the writing system could be made up of Hanzi, the name of the writing system.
In the past the Traditional Chinese writing system consisted of pictures and symbols the represented what they looked like.
In the Tang and song dynasty the characters in Chinese were made up of one syllable per character.
In reading Chinese writing you had to accomplish three things: Identify the characters, understand the pronunciation, and find out what characters belong together because there is no spacing in between characters.
Talila Meredith
Past :Art and fashion
Art and fashion in the Tang and song dynasty certainly blossomed because of the golden age period it was going through.
People would watch operas
Practice embroidery
Do poetry and draw.
As fashion does now, it effects the lives of everyone. In the Tang and Song dynasty young ladies would wear tight shoes that would perfect their feet into the lily foot. This also crippled the girl making her the wife to be seen and not heard.
Talila Meredith
PAST: economics/ architecture
The economics and architecture of China was connected by trade and the prosperity of the growth in food. The Golden Age symbolized the prosperity of all thing s in China.
As Agriculture prospered so did the amount of money going in and out of China.
The sources of government created new ways to continue the blossoming age and that was to create ways to protect them. Ex. The silk road transporting: salt, tea, goods, medicine, textiles, gold and silver and the Grand Canal.
Money was dispersed though paper money and coins which made economics do very well and very popular to others cultures.
There were many things built like: theaters, tea and wine shops, and small companies.
Present writing system
The present writing system is the simplified one.
It always consist of 1-12 stokes in a character( like in the past) but now there are a maximum of 64 strikes per character.
In this writing system the spelling of one word could could look the same all accept a accent mark. This mark could change the word into any of several different words.
This system was built to increase the literacy of the Chinese people as a whole.
Talila Meredith
Present: art and fashion
Over time the art in china has changed to cartoons in animated television shows and into advertisements for many companies.
The Fashion has also changed completely. Some Chinese people where the traditional style of Chinese clothing during special occasions but now they wear a more American style of clothing.
Some of the traditional style of clothing has been modified into a more modern trend.
Present economics and architecture.
Money is Re nimbi in china and is separated by : one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred( yuan) 1, 2 and 5, and jiao and etc
Talila meredith
Past: Religion
The basic guideline to life that effected the pass and future of China.
Buddhism: founded by Siddhartha Gautama Eightfold paths Right news, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
Daoism- founded by Laozi The belief in the way and the responsibility of us all to practice living like nature.
Confucianism- founded Confucius 5 Basic relationships of Confucius
Ruler and subject, Father and Son, Husband and Wife, Older bother and Younger bother, and Friend and Friend.
Ashley Thomas
Present religion
The religions in China are Buddhism, protestantism, Taoism, Islam, and Catholicism.
Confucianism slowly dissolved in the Chinese culture, and so did Daoism.
Over 100 million people in China have faith in a religion but that's only 10% of the population
74 schools for religion in China.
China has 13,000 Buddhist temples.
There are 1,500 Taoism temples.
The protest came to China in the 1980s and they are still here now.
In Beijing 2,000 people go to the Catholic mass every sunday
Glossary
Homophones- syllables that have a common sound to a certain word but the word has a different meaning.
Communism- a system of organization in which property and power is equally distributed for all.
Republic- a government where the power comes from the citizens and is agreed on by voting and/or representative thoughts.
Buddhism- a religion in which focuses on the modest ideals and special way of life.
Living like nature- Follow the actions of nature by living and adding to the earth, not taking away, and by letting thing go there way.
Talila Meredith and Ashley Thomas
Chinese symbols.
Guess if this is in Traditional style or simplified?
Talila Meredith
The answer is :...
The Chinese symbols are in Simplified text
Ashley Thomas
The End
China has Changed in many ways . They have changed like in religion, fashion, government and as a whole.
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