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Western Chou ceremonial vessels become increasingly curvilinear with flowing outlines: inscriptions become long and frequent.ĩ00 – 800: Court historian Shih Chou creates large seal script glass is now being made.ħ70 – 200: Lacquered bronze mirrors, wooden ware, and carvings bronze and marble sculpture, jade carvings, etc.ĥ00 – 200: Tso Commentaries – recording events from 722 – 468 BCE, ink on silk drawings appear.ģ69 – 286: Chunag Chou: author of witty essays – the Chuang-Tzu.ģ43 – 277: Chu Yuan, China’s first renowned poet.Ģ98 – 238: Hsun Kuang, author of Hsün – Tzu.Ģ80 – 208: Li Ssu establishes small-seal script.Ģ20 – 120: The poetic essay in Fu Style dominates Han poetry.ġ50: Discourses on philosophy and alchemy by Huai-nan Tzu edited by Prince Liu (179 – 122).ġ40 – 87: Emperor Wu of Han begins a Bureau of Music collects folk songs and commissions music and dance.ġ20 – 90: Ssu-Ch’ien works on the “Shih Chi,” the first history document with a systematic structure.ġ17: Stone sculpture of a horse trampling a barbarian at the tomb of Ho Ch’ü-ping.ġ00: Jade shroud with golden threads used in the burial of Prince Liu Sheng and his wife.ĥ0 BCE – 20 CE: Existing literature classified into six main divisions, and 13,269 volumes by 596 authors edited by Liu Hsiang and his son Liu Hsin.Ģ BCE – 4 CE: Dated lacquer vessels found in Korea and Ulan Bator.ģ3 CE: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Roman Occupied Jerusalem.ġ00 – 121 CE: First Chinese lexiconography: 9,353 characters plus 1,163 with double use, compiled by Hsü Shen.ġ47 – 168: Engraved designs on Wu family funerary stones.ġ75: Calligraphy in official script by T’sai Yung is engraved on the stones of Confucian classics.ġ96 – 220: Eminent poet T’sao T’sao and the “Chinese Seven” appear Chung Yu creates the regular script, and the Han Period sees the development and export of silk textiles.
Zoomorphic T’ao – T’ieh monster designs appear on bronzes: glazed pottery.ġ766: King T’ang establishes capital at Po.ġ100 – 770: Fall of Shang Dynasty official costumes and banner designs new rituals and music created: colors now have symbolic meaning. Discarding writing showed disrespect to writing.ġ850 – 1100: Shang Dynasty produces writing on bones and shells oracle bones, tortoise shells, and an organized society with a ruling class. Even as late as the 1930’s Beijing garbage pails carried the admonition to respect and spare paper with writing on it (ching hsi tzu chih). Throughout Chinese history, civilization has been defined in terms of wen hua, the “transforming influence of writing.” Thus, the written has carried more weight than the spoken, giving rise to a great many famous Chinese calligraphers, and relatively few famous orators. Coarse pottery made from paste decorated impressions of cord-wrapped sticks.ħ,000 – 6,000: Yang-Shao culture – villages divided into dwelling areas, hand-painted red pottery with rudimentary designs.ĥ,000: Lung-Shan oid culture produces wheel-spun pottery (red/gray/black)Ĥ,000 Coastal Lung-Shan culture produces hard, lustrous pottery with ridges and incised patterns paddle and anvil techniques works decorated with chord and basket markings.Ģ000: Lung-Shan culture (interior/coastal regions) gives birth to Shang Dynasty. So I have created a basic outline of Chinese technological and artistic development that will (hopefully) help anyone interested in such scholarship.ĥ00,000 BCE: Peking Man utilizes fire and flake toolsĢ0,000: composite tools and projectile points in use.ġ0,000: food gathering to food producing as well as plant cultivation and domestication of animals. For students of Japanese art and Buddhist history, it is important to have a basic running knowledge of China’s cultural history leading up the the reign of Prince Shotoku, and the dawning of the first great age of Buddhism in Japan.
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