The Legend Of The Chinese Zodiac Similarities

When comparing Han China and Classical Rome, many political, geographical, and religious similarities can be found, though many differences are also prevalent. Though Roman and Han political structures both emphasized bureaucracies, they came to them quite differently. Through copious amounts of expansion, both societies spread culture and earned money, though expansion was eventually their downfalls. Their religions differed immensely, with Rome emphasizing polytheism and Han China focusing on Confucianism. The differences and similarities between these two civilizations are to be discussed in this essay.

“Fool, I will now take you to the sky-god.” Anansi the spider in the story of “How Stories Came to Earth”, while he was capturing the python for the sky-god. Anansi the spider was trying to obtain the stories from the sky-god. In order for him to receive the stories Anansi had to capture four elusive creatures. After reading the two trickster tales, “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat”, there are many similarities and differences in the two tales.

The Han and the Yuan Dynasties share some similarities, but also some differences. First I will be talking about the similarities that both Dynasties shared. First the Han dynasty shared some native trait while the Yuan Dynasty had foreign traits. The Han Dynasty lasted over 100 years and had numerous leaders to lead. On the other Hand the Yuan dynasty only lasted a generation and then started to wear out over the years. Han being a new culture created a new philosophy for a new dynasty starting out was big. Usually dynasties just passed down traditions and they followed it, but for the Han that wasn't the case. The yuan dynasty did follow the traditions and they picked up cultures traits from chinese tribes. They shared laws, Gods,

The Differences Today I will be writing on two stories, “The Boar Hunt” and “Delicious Death”. I will be talking about the similarities and differences of these two stories. The common theme of friends in both stories, the time period of both stories, and the last one will be, the difficultly of the hunt. The first thing I am going to talk about is a similar theme, which appears in both stories, Friends.

Imagine the world without stories or a world without fire. The world would be a completely different place without them. In the folk tales “How stories came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” tell you how creatures were able to get what they desire by tricking and fooling other animals and gods. After reading these stories they proved to be similar, but mainly different.

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty right after the Qin Dynasty, so there are major similarities between the two. One of those is the social structure of the country. The system consists of three tiers. Bureaucrats and government officials are on top, skilled laborers such as farmers and blacksmiths were the middle class, and servants and merchants were the bottom class. The country was ran by the Emperor and his/her royal family. Importantly the social class did not impact the wealth or power of each individual or family, it only indicated their status. This is how order was established throughout this civilization.

As this is the Medieval ages, there was a lot of trading from all around the globe.There was also another animal that worsened the chaos that lived in the mountains of china.So both the rat and this other animal hopped onto boats and created a near worldwide disaster.

Moreover, chronology is very important to the story and this is shown through the loss of faith in characters. In the story, The Elephant, there are zoo keepers who know there are kids coming to their zoo who want to see an elephant. However they did not have one so they blew a balloon elephant instead. This tricked the kids until it popped and caused disappointment to arise in the children. “The school children who had witnesses the scene in the zoo soon started neglecting their studies and turned into hooligans” (Mrozek 106). This demonstrates how the past events made the kids into terrible people. They believe whatever they learned as a child was all untrue and they feel as if their whole life is a lie. They begin to lose faith in what they learned and give up on their lives. On the other hand, Roch Carrier demonstrated loss of faith through the protagonist. The protagonist learned something from his father on how to find fresh water. However the main character forgets his father’s tactics and is unable to find fresh water underground. “Somewhere along the roads I’d taken since the village of my childhood I had forgotten my father’s knowledge” (Carrier 96). This quote shows how this character is losing faith. He cannot believe how he forgot his dad’s secret technique and now believes that he has learned nothing from his dad. He feels worthless. These two books show how both characters in both stories have lost faith and have struggled since a certain time in their lives. The loss of faith can also

Think of a world without entertainment that is cold, dark, and having no way to cook. Kaleki, Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz, and Charles Perrault retell three stories that talk about the animals that help to prevent this kind of world. Kaleki retold “How Stories Came to Earth”, Erdoes and Ortiz worked together on “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat: Puss in Boots” was written by Perrault. Despite the fact that “How Stories Came to Earth”, Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat: Puss in Boots” all show examples of anthropomorphism and have the tricksters defeat a higher power, in “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” the trickster helps society in some way, while the trickster in “Master Cat: Puss in Boots” only helps his own

Ancient China is a civilization with a lot of important features. Ancient china is known for their dynasties. China has many important geographic features as well. China had religion, achievements, dynasties, relationships, and many more.

East Asian civilizations from 1000 years ago, such as Japan and China, share various similarities as well as differences. For instance, a similarity is that the Mongols attempted to attack both the Japanese and Chinese civilizations, however they only succeeded in overtaking the Chinese. The similarities can also be seen in the way Chinese culture was so prominent in Japan. The Japanese capital, Nara, was modeled after the Chinese capital. Furthermore, the Chinese character system was used to create a new written form of the Japanese language.

Both of the cats got angry at the Rodents. Both ofthe cats and the mice started out

River Valleys have always been a key part of man's survival. The valleys have allowed man to grow and flourish. They have even been called cradles of civilization. There were many civilizations that made their home in a river valley. Two of these civilizations that are very famous even today are China and Egypt.

First, in “Cat and Rat”, Rat was the bad, selfish character who purposely didn’t want to be friends with Cat and the other legend wasn’t like that. Instead in the other legend, “Cat and Mouse”, Mouse didn’t purposely not want to be friends with cat. It was an accident and he was just hungry. Another one is that in “Cat and Rat” there was zodiacs and an emperor, but in the legend there wasn’t. And the last difference I will be explain is that there were different destinations.

Thesis/Preview: Today, I about the interesting history and mythology of cats: ancient Egyptian cats, negative cultural superstitions, and modern day domesticated cats.