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The Deva King of the South, a stone-carved relief on the interior of the Cloud Platform at Juyong Pass, built between 1342 and 1345 in what was then the Mongol Yuan-dynasty capital Khanbaliq (modern Beijing); the monument contains inscriptions in six different scripts: Lanydza script (used to write Sanskrit), Tibetan script (used to write the Tibetan language), 'Phags-pa script (created at the ...
[4] In the mid-fifteenth century, there was a decline in royal interest in calligraphy. [3] As a result, the focus of artistic activity shifted to southeastern China during the mid-Ming period. [4] This led to the emergence of new trends in calligraphy among the artists and literati [3] of wealthy cities such as Jiangnan, particularly Suzhou ...
The first mention of Buddhism in China was made in 65 CE, when the Chinese clearly associated it with Huang-Lao Daoism. [253] Emperor Ming had the first Buddhist temple of China—the White Horse Temple—built at Luoyang in honour of two foreign monks: Jiashemoteng (Kāśyapa Mātanga) and Zhu Falan (Dharmaratna the Indian). [254]
The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...
China maintains a rich diversity of ethnic and linguistic people groups. The traditional lens for viewing Chinese history is the dynastic cycle: imperial dynasties rise and fall, and are ascribed certain achievements.
Xiong, Victor Cunrui (2000), Sui-Tang Chang'an: A Study in the Urban History of Late Medieval China (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies), U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, ISBN 0892641371; Xiong, Victor Cunrui (2009), Historical Dictionary of Medieval China, United States of America: Scarecrow Press, Inc., ISBN 978-0810860537
The nine chapters of the law code consisted of statutes which dealt with criminality, while two of these chapters dealt with court procedure. [230] Although it survives only in small fragments, it was allegedly a massive written work on 960 written scrolls. [230] The code had 26,272 articles written in 7,732,200 words that outlined punishments ...
Jin Guantao, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fan Hongye, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Liu Qingfeng, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, assert that the latter part of the Han dynasty was a unique period in the history of premodern Chinese science and technology. [2]