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The appreciation, creation and collection of Chinese bronzes as pieces of art and not as ritual items began in the Song dynasty and reached its zenith in the Qing dynasty during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, whose massive collection is recorded in the catalogues known as the Xiqing gujian and the Xiqing jijian (西清繼鑑). Within those ...
This sub-section is about paper making; for the writing material first used in ancient Egypt, see papyrus.. Paper: Although it is recorded that the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (50 AD – AD 121) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating from the 2nd century BC ...
The Xia family, the family of Ziwei's mother, originated in the city of Jinan in Shandong Province. The story mentions very little about the family, however, we do know that they were affluent members of the Confucian gentry class. During one of Qianlong's secret visits to Shandong, the Xia family saved him from the rain and gave him a place to ...
The earliest known Chinese depiction of a mechanical distance-marking odometer was drawn. 30 April: An died. The Marquess of Beixiang became emperor of the Han dynasty. The Marquess of Beixiang died. An's son Emperor Shun of Han became emperor of the Han dynasty. 132: Zhang invented a seismometer capable of indicating the direction of earthquakes.
Emperor Gaozu of Han [a] (256 – 1 June 195 BC [5]), also known by his given name Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202 to 195 BC. He is considered by traditional Chinese historiography to be one of the greatest emperors in history, credited with establishing the first Pax Sinica , one of China's ...
Little is known of his reign; campaigned against the northwestern Jiuyuan peoples [40] Jiong 扃: 21 20 Son of Xie – Little is known of his reign [40] Jin 廑: 21 20 Son of Jiong: Xihe Little is known of his reign [40] Kong Jia 孔甲: 31 30 Son of (Bu) Jiang: Xihe His reign inaugurated the Xia's gradual decline [40] Gao 皋: 11 10 Son of ...
Spittoon stoneware with Jun ware glaze, Song or Ming dynasty. The Five Great Kilns (Chinese: 五大名窯; pinyin: Wǔ dàmíng yáo), also known as Five Famous Kilns, is a generic term for ceramic kilns or wares (in Chinese 窯 yáo can mean either) which produced Chinese ceramics during the Song dynasty (960–1279) that were later held in particularly high esteem.
Sima Guang. The principal text of the Zizhi Tongjian comprises a year-by-year narrative of the history of China over 294 scrolls, sweeping through many Chinese historical periods (Warring States, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin and the Sixteen Kingdoms, Southern and Northern dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties), supplemented with two sections of 30 scrolls each—'tables' (目錄; mùlù ...