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The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
Ethnic groups in Chinese history refer to various or presumed ethnicities of significance to the history of China, gathered through the study of Classical Chinese literature, Chinese and non-Chinese literary sources and inscriptions, historical linguistics, and archaeological research. Among the difficulties in the study of ethnic groups in ...
Ancient Chinese history, by period. History of ancient China. Neolithic China (c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC) – predates ancient China. Bronze Age China. Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC|BCE) Western Zhou (1046–771 BC) Iron Age China.
The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or " four categories of the people " (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1][2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou dynasty and is ...
4th-century BC Chinese people (3 C, 16 P) 5th-century BC Chinese people (3 C, 29 P) 6th-century BC Chinese people (3 C, 26 P) 7th-century BC Chinese people (5 C, 19 P) 8th-century BC Chinese people (5 C, 6 P) 9th-century BC Chinese people (3 C, 2 P) 10th-century BC Chinese people (3 C, 1 P) 11th-century BC Chinese ...
Similar expressions such as "5000 years of Chinese history" have also emerged and become popular in China, including the People's Republic of China period. For example, the popular history books on Chinese history compiled by mainland Chinese writers Lin Handa and Cao Yuzhang were published under the title of "Five Thousand Years Up and Down". [5]
Chinese cuisine is a very important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine has influenced many other cuisines in Asia , with modifications made ...
The Zhou dynasty ([ʈʂóʊ]; Chinese : 周) [ c ] was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from c.1046 BC until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou period (c.1046 – 771 BC), the royal house, surnamed Ji, had military control over ancient China. Even as Zhou suzerainty became ...