Traditional Chinese Culture Quiz 3

Dynasty Order to the Song

Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Northern/ Southern, Sui, Tang, Song

Sui Grand Canal

Used to link the north and the south

Equal Field System Land Division

Land assigned to faminlies based on members and ability to supply labor

Early Tang

First female empeoror (Wu Zetian)

higher focus on civil service exam

Buddhism flourishes

Buddhism in the early Tang

Tiantai: emphasize the truth as the emptiness of reality

Pure Land Buddhism: Repeat name over and over for entry to heaven

Esoteric

Chan: zen, meditation and enlightenment can occur at any time

High Tang

Associated with Tang Xuanzong (falls in love with a concubine)

Lushan Rebellion

ssociated with cultural sophistication, wealth, and foreign culture

Lushan Rebellion

Northwest background

Works with royal family and plans rebellion for many years, marks decline of the Tan g

Late Tang

weaker and weaker government that eventually collpases

Tang Gaozu

Founder of Tang dynasty

Tang Taizong

Lots of expansion and political refining

Empress Wu

Transitioned to focus more on civil service exams

adds composition of classical poetry to exam

Tang Xuanzong

Emperor during the high Tang

Yang Guifei

consort of emperor Xuanzong

Tang Chang’an

captial

Social Uses of poetry

parting, ideas of self and the natural world, if one could write poetry they had a higher status

Du Fu

famous for his humility

became a literary confucious

Moves family during Lushan rebellion to avoid starvation

Poet historian

spending the night in a tower by the river

Li Bai

just a chill guy

daoist

famous

poetry is occasional

Drinking alone beneath the moon

Wang Wei

Shanxin provice

Passes imperial exam with highest honor

known for poetry and painting

Known for poetry and painting

Buddhist

Yuanzhen

most famous scholar of mid-late Tang

Passes highest exam

constantly dismissed and called back

Writes short stories and poems

Song Overview

large change in the fabric of society

not as strong in military

departure in philosiphy that come to challenge thoughtful people

300 years of rapid growth (economic, agriculture, trade, industry)

Exams becoming more essential to elite life

development of neo-confucianism

Border situation

Constant battles

Lost eventuatlly or smthn idfk

Liao and Xixia take over or whatever

Song Taizong

Rules for 20+ years

sets up working beurocracy

Officials supervise bureas (whatever I’m sleepy)

Song Taizu

Founded Song dynasty

Ci Poetry

song lyrics

Su Shi

leading figure

set up my new possibilities for people to think about themselves

poet/ calligraphy

neo-confucianism

Less restrictions on class and roles and stuff