Friday, December 7th, 2012

[3rdTaylor]

Science and Technology and Poetry and Art of Tang and SongTang Poetry• Follows the Golden Age of Chinese• Written by over 2.200 authors• Important part of social life• Two famous poetso Du Fuo Li BaiSong Poetry• Classical Chinese Poetry• Poetso Su Shio Ouyang Xiuo Lu Youo Yang Wanli• Many different forms• Ci- Form of poetry based on songs, and rhythms but with different wordsTang Technology• Invented the astronomical clock• Gunpowder• Gas cylinders• Water-powered fans• PorcelainSong 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 paintings of landscape, shanshui• This was paintings with mountains and water• Many paintings were traded• Their main music was the qin, which was used also in the Han Dynasty• Also made pots and platesScience 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 lineScience of Song• The Song Dynasty is considered by many to be Chinas high point in science• Inventionso Gunpowdero Compasso Movable-type 3 printingo Greatest 3• The period that the Song made numerous scientific advance was known as the Chinese RenaissanceHan and Tang Dynasty Agriculture and TradeTang Agriculture• The Tang Dynasty made great advances in agriculture, such as digging underground wells for better irrigation, made a very light weight pump used 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 populations with these small inventionsCrops• The Tang Dynasty grew a lot of different things like corn, rice, beans, and wheatTang Trade• During the Tang Dynasty the use of the silk roads has declined dramaticallySilk Roads• Silk roads were ambushed a lot by the Mongols545,345