Ancient China

By: Raisa LongworthBy: Raisa Longworth

Taylor CraigTaylor Craig

And Brandon KowkAnd Brandon Kowk

Chinese Landform

LandformsThe Ancient Chinese culture began among hills, valleys

and rich fertile plains. China is the third biggest country in the world.

Mountainous areas with high or flat areas called plateaus and deserts on the west. These helped the development of China.

They built a barrier that made contact between Chinese and other civilization on the west difficult. The high mountains and deserts made travel between Ancient China and other places hard.

Food

In the northern part of China, cereals and wheat were grown because it was cooler and dryer.

In southern China where it was hotter, rice was grown.

Rice was eaten in all of the other regions.

Wealthier Chinese ate more meat and had a larger variety of food in there diet.

Herbs and spices were used to create flavors that were sweet, sour, spicy, or salty.

Cinnamon, ginger, garlic, salt, sugar, honey and soy sauce were used to season food.

Ancient Chinese were tea drinkers. They also drank water with honey, ginger and fruit juices.

GovernmentThe Chinese Empire was ruled by rights of birth.

A dynasty is a series of kings or emperors who come from the same family.

A huge number of public officials were paid to manage the day to day running of empire.

The empire gave out a lot of the land to rich families who agreed to rule on the kings side.

The Qin dynasty which was the central government in China was located it in one city, Changan.

It was important to have a powerful central government in China, to protect the country from attack and to fight invasions.

The Qin dynasty and Zhou dynasty built the Great Wall of China along the edge of their territory to keep people out.

The Emperor was leader of China society.

People believed that heaven had given him the task of ruling.

Poor people like peasants, served the more wealthier.

Clothing

The Chinese wore tunics (long t-shirts)Women wore long tunics down too the floor

and men were tunics to there knees. Sometimes they wore jackets over there

tonics. In the winter when it was cold they wore

padded jackets and sometimes pants. Most people in china wore there hair long

both men and women.

Men & Women Clothing

Religion

• The Chinese believed that all parts of the universe were controlled by a force of energy called Qi.

• Qi flowed through the earth and that is important not to disturb it.

HousingThe Chinese houses had curvy roofs because the

Chinese thought that bad spirits only traveled in a triangular way.

There were really two kinds of houses in ancient China - poor people's houses (which is most of them) and rich people's houses (not very many).

Poor people's houses were mainly just one room, made of smashed earth (like mudbrick). The roof was usually made of thatch.

Poor Chinese House

Rich Chinese house

Location

Ancient China is located in the Eastern side of Asia and surrounds the Eastern China sea.

It also surrounds the Yellow sea and the Northern China sea by Korea.

climate

Most of china is made up of mountains and rock. Its really hot in china so no crops grow. And it doesn’t usually rain a lot.

The only is millet. millet is a type of grin that dos need water only sun.

architectureThe buildings are usually made by wood and

stone roofs and metal.

The buildings are all hand-made.

The great wall of china is all hand made everything in china is hand made .

in china some of the oldest stuff is there like old buildings.

Architecture

The Great Wall of China

The Great WallThe Great Wall is 4,160km long. It is about 20 feet wide and 26 feet high. Parts of the wall are so broad that 10 soldiers can walk across.

It is the only hand-made structure that can be seen from the moon!

China built walls around their territories to keep out invasions from the north.

Millions died while building this wall of starvation and disease. Their bones were buried in the area of the wall or used to make up its thickness.

The Great Wall crosses mountains, deserts, rivers and valleys, passing through five provinces and two independent regions.

Materials used were whatever the people could found near by-clay, stone, willow branches, reeds and sand.

Parts of this wall can still be seen in other parts of China.

it is said that the amount of material used in the wall alone is enough to circle the world at the equator five times!

Yin & Yang

Ying an yang is the opposite forces of nature that are in harmony with each other. According to there beliefs when people disturbed this harmony they were punished with floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

Confucianism• Confucianism was base on the teachings

Kung fu-Tzu whose name means great master kung.

• He believed in a orderly society were every body had a role, place an responsibility.

• Chinese government and society were based on the principles of Confucianism.

PaperChinese legend tells that the new invention of paper was presented to the Emperor in the year 105 by Cai

Lun. Evidence shows that paper was in use two hundred

years before then. Either way, the Chinese were ahead of the rest of the

world. The craft of papermaking had some bamboo fiber to

produce a fine quality paper. The papermaker uses only the traditional materials

and methods to produce fine art paper.

CompassBy the third century, Chinese scientists had studied

and learned much about interesting things about nature.

Scientists learned to make magnets by heating pieces of ore to red hot temperatures and then cooling the

pieces in a North/South position. The magnet was then placed on a piece of reed and

floated in a bowl of water marked with directional bearings.

These first navigational compasses were widely used on Chinese ships by the eleventh century.

Doh-Jayh(Thank You)