december 7, 2012

  • Science and Technology and Poetry And Art of Tang and Song

Tang Poetry

  • follows the Golden Age of Chinese
  • Written by over 2,200 authors Important part of social life
  • two famous poets
    • Du Fu
    • Li Bai

Song Poetry

  • Classical Chinese Poetry
  • Poets
    • Su Shi
    • Ouyang Xiu
    • Lu You
    • Yang Wanli
  • many different forms
  • Ci - form of poetry based on songs, and rhythms but with different words

Tang Technology

  • invented the astronomical clock
  • gunpowder
  • gas cylinders
  • water-powered fans
  • porcelain

Song Technology

  • calculated an accurate measurement of the astronomical meridian
  • many medical breakthroughs
  • used ephedrine as a pharmaceutical drug
  • hydraulic powered astronomical clock tower
  • movable type
  • flamethrower

Tang Art

  • painted many painting of the landscape, shanshui
  • this was painting with mountains and water
  • many painting were traded
    • their main music was the qin, which was sued also in the Han Dynasty
    • also made pots and plates

Science of Tang

  • the Tang Dynasty contributed a lot to the development of astronomy, medicine and printing technique in Chinese history
  • Monk Yixing, was the first to successfully measure the length of the meridian line

Science of Song

  • the Song dynasty is considered by many to be China's high point in science
  • inventions - gunpowder, compass, and movable type printable. Greatest 3
  • the period that the Song made numerous scientific advances was known as the Chinese Renaissance

Tang Dynasty Ag and Trade

Tang Dynasty Agriculture

  • the Tang Dynasty made great advances in agriculture, such as digging underground wells for better irrigation, made a very light weight pump sued to take water to farm land far from water sources
  • Rice, a Chinese crop, ripened quickly, so China was able to hold such a large population with these small inventions

Crops

  • The Tang Dynasty grew a lot of different things like corn, race, beans, and wheat

Trade

  • During the Tang Dynasty the use of the silk roads has declined dramatically

Silk Roads

  • the silk roads were ambushed a lot by the Mongols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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