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Welcome to the Huang He River, enjoy your tour!
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"To travel is to live."
Rwan & Alia's most exotic tour will immerse you in the distinctive culture, cuisine, and history of the Huang He River, Shang Di Dynasty, and the ancient Chinese civilization. On this eye-opening tour your guide will introduce you to,
- benefits and challenges of geographical features that were key to development of the Chinese civilization
- different technological developments
- the five traits of the chinese civilization
and way more!
- The Huang He, deposited huge amounts of dusty yellowish silt when it overflowed its banks.
- The silt is actually extremely fertile soil called loess.
- The Huang He River is called the Yellow River because huge amounts of loess turns the water that color.
- So much of this mineral rich soil ends up in the Yellow River that it can fill the riverbed and change the river’s course.
- frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farms, has earned the Huang He River the name, "China's Sorrows," for killing nearly one million people.
- Having major natural barriers can be an obstacle for trade.
- Invasions from the west and north occurred again and again in Chinese history.
- Building barriers is expensive and time consuming.
On the tour you will see the Huang He river in person and look at the silt and even touch the water! You will see the river that has given birth to China, isn't that awesome?
On the tour you will also be able to see the, " Great Wall of China, " and there, you will find your assigned tour guide telling stories and providing information about the invasions that had occurred there.
You will also learn and look deeper into ethnocentrism and how the location of the Huang He river affected the ancient chinese and how it still affects people today.
Among the oldest and most important Shang cities was, "Anyang," one of the capitals of the Shang Dynasty. Anyang was built mainly of wood. The city stood in a forest clearing.
- Unlike the ancient Egyan civilization that started of writing on stone and clay, ancient chinese used fancy oracle bones.
- In the Chinese method of writing each character stands for an idea, not a sound.
-There were practically no links between China's spoken language and it's written language, because of this people in all parts of China could learn the same system of writing.
- A person needed to know over 1,000 characters to be barely literate. To be a scholar you needed to know atleast 10,000 characters.
- Usually only rich or higher class people learned how to read or write.
- Massive earthen walls built for protection against invaders, such as the, " Great Wall of China. "
- Bronzeworking, beautiful objects were used in rituals and were also symbols of power.
- Silk
- Embroidery
- Chinese discovered that with the right choice of clay and firing techniques pottery could be made so thin that it was translucent. Such porcelain became known as china.
- The family was central to Chinese society, the most important virtue was to respect your parents. Unlike the ancient Egyptian civilization that just strongly depended on the social classes for it's virtues, this civilization had stronger murals and virtues that were followed no matter what social class.
- Older men controlled family property and made important decisions.
- Women were expected to obey their fathers, husbands and later on even sons. When a girl was between 13-16 her marriage was arranged, only by birthing sons could she hope to improve her status.
- Shang society was sharply divided between nobles and peasants, governed by a ruling class of nobles and warriors controlled by the king.
- The people of the Huang He civilization praised and worshiped
godlike kings of early civilizations.They created a complex conceit of their origins. Chinese believed that the spirits of the family's ancestors had power to bring good fortune or disaster to living members of the family. Every family paid respect to the father's ancestors and made sacrifices in their honor. Through the spirits of the ancestors, the Shang kings consulted the god through oracle bones, and some animal bones. The shang worshiped a supreme god, Shang Di.
- The government was a monarchy. It was thought that the king ruled with the permission of the gods.
On the tour you will visit An yang and be able to see the forest clearing where Chinese civilization began you'll see some paintings of what An yang looked like during ancient chinese civilization.
You'll also get a lesson on ancient chinese record keeping, do hands on activities and get to see oracle bones.
You'll also get to see what embroidery, silk and bronze working looked like back then.
You'll be able to watch or even act out a part or role of/in ancient chinese society in forms of plays or skits. You'll also learn more about the gods they worshipped and some that are still praised, and see some rituals be preformed
You'll be told true stories, folktales and experience so much more! Come join us on,
" Rwan&Alia's Huang He River Valley Tour." this eye opening tour!
Made by Alia and Rwan.
Period 4 global
sources:
world history textbook,
notes, and,
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html
Thank you!
disadvantages
- Not open to learning about ideas outside their own culture.
- Leads to ethnocentralism, thinking that your culture is the best culture.
- Chinese saw their country as the center of the civilized world, their own name for China was the, "Middle Kingdom."
- In the Chinese view, people who lived outside of China as barbarians.
location/isolation
The unpredictable and frequent flooding lead to strong irrigation systems and strong settlements.
benefits
- There might be less racial or cultural problems in their society because they're all alike.
- Murals and long-time traditions will last longer.
Here are some of the more geographical features that were key to the development of ancient Chinese civilizations, birthed by the Huang He River.
Not having natural barriers lead to great earthen walls.
Isolation lead to a strong government that depended on itself, producing all of its own wants and needs.
Disadvantages
No natural
barriers
benefits
disadvantages
unpredictable flooding
benefits
The Huang He is the world's sixth-longest river at 3,395 miles. The river is called the, "Yellow River," named for the color of the silts that are carried downstream in its flow. The river has flooded so often that is has become known as the, "River of Sorrow." It is also called, "Mother River," because it is the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization.
First of all, what is the Huang He River?
On the tour your guide will introduce you to a Chinese citizen that will help you and make sure that you know to say all of these names in Chinese, you'll also be given a choice to practice writing the names in Chinese.