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Agenda – Day 1

Agenda – Day 1. Hindu Review Questions – Take out a sheet of paper and number to five. Opener – Scroll Paintings – include on your Hindu review sheet Lecture Notes – History/Art/Culture Day 1 Chinese Characters (on the board) Scroll Painting Exercise Exit Slip Questions. Hinduism Review.

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Agenda – Day 1

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  1. Agenda – Day 1 • Hindu Review Questions – Take out a sheet of paper and number to five. • Opener – Scroll Paintings – include on your Hindu review sheet • Lecture Notes – History/Art/Culture Day 1 • Chinese Characters (on the board) • Scroll Painting Exercise • Exit Slip Questions

  2. Hinduism Review • Hinduism is the oldest living what? • What are the Vedas? • What do you call the cycle of rebirth where the soul is reborn again and again? • Why were the temples painted white? • What two things are Hindu temples built near?

  3. China Review • 6. Name two Chinese Dynasties • 7. What do these characters mean in Chinese?中国 • 8. Describe how to read or look at a Chinese Scroll Painting • 9. What two things did the Shang Dynasty contribute to Chinese history? • 10. What is this object called?

  4. OpenerChinese Scroll Paintings • Qingming Shanghe Tu Scroll Painting • Roughly 50 feet in length • Write one paragraph on the story you think it tells. • How does the music contribute to the story?

  5. China 中国 Chu Gokku (Middle Kingdom)

  6. Chinese Dynasty Song • Shang • Zhou (“Joe”) • Qin (“chin”) • Han • (Repeat) • ( ------------------- 400 years of Disunity ------------------) • Sui (“sway” without “w”) • Tang • Song • (Repeat) • Yuan ------ Mongol • Ming • Qing (“ching”) --------Manchu • Republic -------- Republic of China • (Repeat) • Mao Zedong

  7. Early China Shang Dynasty 1600-1100 B.C. -Bronze work -technical -artistic -created writing system based on pictographs that represented sounds or ideas

  8. 1-Shang Dynasty: 1600-1100 BCE Shang Bronzes

  9. 1-Shang Dynasty: 1600-1100 BCE Oracle Bones , Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone: (or-ah-kul) Large, usually flat, mammal bones or tortoise shells upon which prehistoric Chinese shamans drew picture messages. When heated, the bones cracked, revealing the response of the mystic forces, and were interpreted by the shamans who were acting as the voice of god or oracle.

  10. 1-Shang Dynasty: 1600-1100 BCE The Evolution of Chinese writing during the Shang Dynasty Pictographs Semantic-Phonetics Pictograph: (pik-ta-graf) A drawing or painting stylizing or simplifying a real image; picture writing, thus the basis of hieroglyphics and ideaographs.

  11. Take out a blank sheet of paper.You will need this next class! • Chinese Characters Activity – copy from the board with English meanings. 中 – chuu – middle 日 – nichi/hi – day or sun 月- tsuki - moon 火 – ka/hi - fire 水 – sui/mizu - water 木 – ki - tree 金 – kin - metal 土 – do – earth 山 – san/yama – mountain 犬 – inu - dog

  12. Zhou Dynasty 1100-221 B.C. -begins the separation between the ruling class and the working class. -longest of all the dynasties lasting until 221 B.C. -Pictographic symbols became more stylized and elaborate -Mandate from Heaven Heaven had granted rule over the earth to a specially selected agent

  13. Zhou: 1100-221 BCE Ritual Wine Vessel 4th century BCE, bronze, silver, gold, copper

  14. Zhou: 1100-221 BCE Zhou Coins - bronze

  15. Period of the Warring States 403-221 B.C. -last period of the Zhou Dynasty -periods of crisis laid foundations for Chinese thought and culture

  16. Unification of China Qin Dynasty 221-202 B.C. -Shih Huang-ti – 1st Emperor -221 B.C. victorious in Warring States Period - centralized government -brutal but brilliant organizational skills -private citizens could not own weapons -order maintained by army

  17. -36 provinces (states) -single writing system and standard weights and measures -destroyed philosophical writings “Burning of the Books” -connected existing walls to make one Great Wall -1400 miles long -peasants and prisoners were forced into construction gangs -had massive tomb built –terra cotta army

  18. Terra cotta warriors • In 1974, over 7000 life-sized clay soldiers and horses were found in an underground vaults near Xian (She-an)(aka. Chang’an). • They were said to be the army that would protect the Emperor Shi Huang-ti in the afterlife. • How many do you think they found? • Field trip into the hall and work out some scale sizing for estimates for your guesses—(yes, now!)

  19. Terra cotta warriors • So how many did you guess? 300? 700? 1400? • Not even close! They have uncovered 3 tombs of soldiers, archers, charioteers, spearmen, etc. and still have not found an end to them! • What? How many? • At last count, it was estimated that there were between 5-8,000 soldiers. Each one had a unique face and all were armed with real weapons.

  20. Great Wall

  21. Han Dynasty 202 B.C. – A.D. 221 -“Renaissance” of China -central government/local independence compromise -arts flourished -philosophical writings -lost power to rich aristocratic families -fell into chaos for 400 years Tang Dynasty A.D. 618-906 -reunited China -period of China’s “Golden Age”

  22. Chinese Philosophy Confucianism -founded by Kung Fuzi - 551-479 B.C. -born in central China to a middle or lower class family during time of war -wanted to restore peace of earlier times -would not discuss religion, gods, or life after death “Not yet understanding life, how can we understand death?” -defended rights of the people -ideas promoted SOCIAL ORDER

  23. -wise and virtuous should enter government -state run by wise ruling class would produce similar characteristics in its people -person must have five inner virtues and two externally acquired ones

  24. Inner Virtues 1. Righteousness – following/practicing religion 2. Inner integrity – sticking you beliefs/principles 3. Love of humanity – care for people 4. Altruism – living/acting in the interest of others 5. Loyalty Outer Virtues 1. Culture (education) 2. Decorum (ritual)

  25. -if these people served in government they would be loyal/unconcerned with material rewards -critical of masters Confucian Ideas in Chinese Society -devotion to parents -worship of ancestors -respect for elders -loyalty to rulers

  26. Chinese Philosophy Taoism -translates as “The Way” -limitations of human perceptions -encouraged withdrawal and passiveness -follow one’s own nature (own drummer) -no such thing as good and bad, both part of “The Way” -founded by Lao Tzu

  27. -most important writing is the Tao te ching; the Way and Its Power -water is the best symbol for Taoism -if water comes to an obstacle, it goes around it, flows passively -humans should do the same thing, avoid participating in society or culture -anti-violence and anti-war -“for every victory celebration is a funeral rite”

  28. Arts in Classical China -cultural revival under Han and Tang Dynasties -Standard body of Literature, the Five Classics -Buddhism, introduced first century A.D., inspired writers, painters, and sculptors -Li Po -Tang Dynasty -best-loved of all China’s writers

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