Lesson 4 Confucius Changes China
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Lesson 4Confucius Changes China
Vocabulary
• Confucianism• Mandate of Heaven• Grand School• Seismograph
• Han Gaozu• Confucius• Wudi
The Han Dynasty
• In 206 B.C. the Qin Dynasty was overthrown
• Farmer turned general Han Gaozu overthrew it
• Began the powerful Han Dynasty
• Ruled for over 400 years• Followed the ideas of
Confucius
Confucius• Lived between 551 B.C. and
479 B.C.• Both parents died when he
was young• He had a passion for learning• Same time as Buddha in
India• His education lead to a job in
the government but later he devoted himself to teaching
Confucianism
• Confucius’s ideas became known as Confucianism
• Not really a religion but more of a way of life
• He felt that the Chinese people had lost their traditions
• His ideas were written in The Analects
Ideas from The Analects• Education would teach people to
be good• Central idea = respect for family• Children should respect parents• Confucius applied this to rulers
and subjects too…a subject should respect his ruler
• Mandate of Heaven = the belief that the gods gave emperors the right to rule
Han Dynasty
• Han rulers wanted to rule more fairly unlike Shihaungdi
• They also wanted to lessen the power of the nobles
• They allowed educated people to have jobs in the government
Wudi and The Grand School
• Wudi was the first strong emperor of the Han Dynasty
• Ruled from 140 B.C. – 87 B.C.
• Created schools for government service run by Confucian teachers
• The best students went to The Grand School.
Learning Blossomed under Han rule
• Grand School went from 50 students to 30,000
• Predicted eclipses• Discovered new
medicines• Chinese language grew
from 3,000 to 9,000 characters
• 100 A.D. = first Chinese Dictionary
Inventions of the Time
• Chinese invented paper made from trees
• Made from Mulberry tree
Chinese Inventions• Invented during the Han Dynasty• Used to detect earthquakes• The vase held a long, metal
pendulum• The pendulum hit a rod inside the
vase that would hit a ball out of the dragon’s mouth
• The ball came out in the direction the earthquake occurred
• Rulers could send food and supplies to the area immediately
Seismograph
Silk• Chinese farmers
discovered how to make silk around 2500 B.C.
• Silkworms start eating mulberry leaves in the spring
• They then spin their cocoons
• Women unwound the cocoons an twisted the strands into threads