Kaifeng

Yue Fei is one of the most talked about Patriots in Chinese History. There are several Muggle television shows and novels written about this famous patriot. He also has many temples dedicated to his honor. He is one of the most venerated but tragic generals in Chinese history. People have recognized this name for the last 800 years. The history of Yue Fei is still celebrated in China today. Over the last 800 years, everyone knew of this famous patriot. Yue Fei did not kill his enemies in the

Cranes above Kaifeng or Auspicious Cranes is a hand scroll attributed to one of the most artistic important figure: Late Northern Song Emperor Huizong (Sturman, 1990). This painting was made to commemorate a “rare” phenomenon where 20 cranes flying on the sky above the main gate of the palace, Kaifeng, on the day of Lantern Festival on the year 1112. This phenomenon was believed as a Mandate of Heaven under the rule of Emperor Huizong (IBID). This auspicious phenomenon, however, might not be as magical

mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in the west, plains, deltas, and hills in the east.”(Embry 4). This is what I observed and mentally noted while I was touring the Song Dynasty. “Emperor Taizu began reigning in the year 960. His capital was in Kaifeng. During his 16 years of rule, he instituted successful policies and won his wars of expansion” (Wu 7). This was something that a local had told me about emperor Taizu. He further on explained to me about his resilience and how he expanded his land

once the Battle of Three-peaked Hill, Kaifeng was doomed and therefore the Jin emperor before long abandoned the town and entered Hebei province in an exceedingly vain arrange to establish himself there. Thousands of individuals offered a stubborn resistance to the Mongols, United Nations agency entrusted the conduct of the attack to Subutai, the foremost daring of all their commanders. The Jin Emperor has driven south once more, and by this point Kaifeng had been taken by the Mongols thus he established

projectiles. The Chinese Bureau of Munitions, by the thirteenth century, had seven factories that produced 7,000 rockets and 21,000 bombs per day . In 1232, they used thunder-crash bombs, which are early hand grenades, against the Mongols, who attacked Kaifeng, a city in northern China . Mongols, however, learned the recipe to gunpowder and began using gunpowder-based

Festival. Although the artist uses the same title, this painting has its own beauty and connotative meanings that cannot be ignored and which people need to discover and appreciate. Zhang Zeduan’s masterpiece depicts the landscape of his hometown, Kaifeng and the life of its people during the Song dynasty. Nearly 500 years later, Qiu Ying portrayed his hometown Suzhou in a similar way, but in his version, the scenes are different to the original version. Compared to Zhang, Qiu Ying added more blue-and-green

The Qingming handscroll depicts a bustling Chinese city prior to the late twelfth century. The scroll’s starting scenes are of a beautiful landscape, and the city’s level of activity is first conveyed in the bridge scene of sections 13 and 14. Through close analysis of this scene, it seems that the artist’s perspective in this scroll is an idealistic rather than realistic one, portraying things as they should be rather than as they are. This can be seen in his choices to depict an all-male crowd

The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) was the last feudal dynasty in China’s history; meanwhile, it was the dynasty that bred modernized thoughts and foster revolutionaries for Modern China. The Late Qing, which dramatically turned from prosperity to decline, experienced the failure of the Opium War, a series of unequal treaties signed with the western powers in mid-19th century, several well-known uprisings, reforms for modernization, and war among warlords. Every event gradually pushed the Qing dynasty

What many considered the modernization of China was actually China’s introduction to the cut throat institutions of western capitalism, foreign policy, and western imperialism. China for centuries had dealt with foreigners on its own understanding of foreign policy called the tribute system which maintain the idea that outside nations would be submissive to China authority as a sign of respect to the Emperor because China was seen as the most advance country in the world and in recognition of the

As just stated so did the Northern Song clan members set up a capital in Hangzhou. Instead of Northern Song so would they now be called Southern Song. Hangzhou back then was a wealthy trading city and the Song rulers retained their domain south of the Huai River along with most of the population at that time. They also managed to retain big southern merchant cities and therefore a new period of prosperity began. A priority in Southern Song was foreign trade, and the government constructed merchant