The general policy of Chu was to slowly annex the small states to its north. By late in the period it had a common border with Qi and Wei.389: Early in the Warring States period, Chu was one of the st ...
The Spring and Autumn period was initiated by the eastward flight of the Zhou court. There is no one single incident or starting point for the Warring States era. The political situation of the period ...
The Five Hegemons (春秋五霸):Traditional history lists five hegemons during the Spring and Autumn period:Duke Huan of QiDuke Wen of JinKing Zhuang of ChuDuke Mu of QinDuke Xiang of SongAn alternative ...
While the conflict between Jin and Chu for the Central Plains gradually eased, two states in southeastern China with initially tenuous links to the Zhou realm - Wu in modern-day Jiangsu and Yue in mod ...
After the Zhou capital was sacked by the Marquess of Shen and the Quanrong barbarians, the Zhou moved the capital east from the now desolated Zongzhou in Haojing near modern Xi'an to Chengzhou in the ...
Early female writers Cai, or literary talent, is an attribute describing profound lyricism, deep intellectuality and analytic skill. Although it was acknowledged that both women and men possessed cai, ...
Early Chinese prose was deeply influenced by the great philosophical writings of the Hundred Schools of Thought (770-221 BC). The works of Mo Zi (墨子), Mencius (孟子) and Zhuang Zi (莊子) contain wel ...
Formation of the earliest layer of Chinese literature was influenced by oral traditions of different social and professional provenance: cult and lay musical practices (Shijing), divination (Yi jing), ...
Formation of the earliest layer of Chinese literature was influenced by oral traditions of different social and professional provenance: cult and lay musical practices (Shijing), divination (Yi jing), ...
Chinese religion was originally oriented to worshipping the supreme god Shang Di during the Xia and Shang dynasties, with the king and diviners acting as priests and using oracle bones. The Zhou dynas ...
There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China. In terms of numbers however, Han Chinese is by far the largest group. Throughout history, many groups have merged into neighboring ethnicitie ...
The Xia dynasty was described in classic texts such as the Classic of History (Shujing), the Bamboo Annals, and the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) by Sima Qian. It has been documented that the ...
The "current text" (今本 jīnběn) is a 2-scroll version of the text printed in the late 16th century. The first scroll contains a sparse narrative of the pre-dynastic emperors (beginning with the Yel ...
Scholars have questioned the historicity of legendary kings of the ancient periods given by Sima Qian. Sima Qian begins Shiji with an account of the five rulers of supreme virtue, the Five Emperors wh ...
In all, the Records is about 526,000 Chinese characters long, making it four times longer than History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Sima Qian organized the chapters of Records of the Grand ...
