HI121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Field System, King You Of Zhou, Wu Ding
Document Summary
17 october 2017: ancient china dictates the time before 221bc, 221bc: beginnings of qin dynasty and imperial china, our goal: why is studying ancient china so hard. The origin myths: culture heroes and the shi ben, early heroes: fu xi, sui ren, shen nong ( the three sovereigns , culture heroes, may not be real people. The shang: culture and achievement: writing system, oracle bone inscriptions, divination coscripted on bones after, wu ding: oldest king mentioned by bones, centralized economy and monumental architecture, tombs: fu hao. Zhou: political philosophy and social changes: correlative thought, idea of connections between natural phenomenon and human actions, constantly changing universe, mandate of heaven, book of odes: the mandate is not easy to keep . The fall of western zhou: reform attempts, looked for competent people rather than relatives to rule areas and jobs, the nomad threat, eventually the capital falls, king you and bao si, ping wang and the eastern zhou.
