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The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
The Shang dynasty is the earliest dynasty within traditional Chinese history that is firmly supported by archaeological evidence. The archaeological site of Yinxu, near modern-day Anyang, corresponds to the final Shang capital of Yin. Excavations at Yinxu have revealed eleven major royal tombs, the foundations of former palace buildings, and ...
On the garden's site was first built a garden during the Shaoxing period (1131–1162) of the Southern Song dynasty. Afterwards it changed ownership, and was destroyed or modified continually. [2] It was the residence and garden of Lu Guimeng, a Tang dynasty scholar. Later in the Yuan dynasty it became the Dahong Temple's garden.
'Ruins of Yin') is a Chinese archeological site corresponding to Yin, the final capital of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BCE). Located in present-day Anyang , Henan, Yin served as the capital during the Late Shang period ( c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE ) which spanned the reigns of 12 Shang kings and saw the emergence of oracle bone script ...
The Deer Terrace Pavilion (traditional Chinese: 鹿臺; simplified Chinese: 鹿台; pinyin: Lùtái) was a structure believed to have been built during the Shang dynasty. Its location was believed to be in Zhaoge (near the present-day Jinniuling mountain ridge in Qi County, Hebi).
The Fujita Ram Gong (Chinese: 觥; pinyin: gōng; Wade–Giles: kung 1) is a Shang dynasty Chinese ritual bronze vessel, a guang, in the shape of a ram that dates to the later part of the dynasty in 13th-11th century B.C. [1] Considered significant for its realistic shape and style, it is among 13 known Chinese bronze vessels made in animal-form.
Yu Garden [1] or Yuyuan Garden [2] (traditional Chinese: 豫 園; simplified Chinese: 豫 园; pinyin: Yù Yuán, Shanghainese Yuyoe Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ɦy²².ɦɥø⁵⁵], lit. Garden of Happiness [ 3 ] ) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District ...
Daji is featured in the Chinese novel Fengshen Yanyi as a major antagonist. She was the first featured corrupter of the declining Shang dynasty in the novel. She was summoned by Nüwa, the celestial sovereign, to destroy King Zhou. In return, Nüwa promised immortality after her mission was finished.