The Song Dynasty contributed to technological progress.Two of mankind's most important inventions were made during this dynasty:movable-type printing and gunpowder.Two...
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Although the Sui Dynasty was only a short interlude in the history of Chinese technology，we can observe technological progress in...
Zu Chongzhi Zu Chongzhi（429-500），was a great mathematician and astronomer during the Song and Qi Dynasties.His main contributions to the development...
Fu，sometimes called rhyme prose or rhapsody in English，is the distinctive predominant literary form of the Han Dynasty.It was a new...
During this period of constant military strife，we can observe a further development of all science fields，such as agriculture，mechanical manufacture，mathematics and...
Zhoubi Suanjing（The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven）was essentially an astronomy text，thought to have been...
Zhang Heng（78-139）was a multitalented scientist and also a minister in the government.His most important invention was the seismograph，used to detect...
The next dynasty to come into power is the Han Dynasty，including the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties.Quite opposite to...
With the development of metallurgy，mechanical devices such as the crossbow，armillary sphere and seismograph were invented.Papermaking and some other technologies also...
The Artificers'Record The Artificers'Record is the first important book recording the official handicraft industry and technical standards in ancient China.It...
The Chinese philosophers in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods established schools and took on pupils，brilliantly discoursed and...
The short-lived Qin brought no new chance for the further development of literature because of the legalist chancellor Li Si's...
China，as one of the world's four countries of great ancient civilizations，is famous for its scientific discoveries in ancient times，and Chinese...
Qi Baishi（1864-1957）was born into a poor wfamily in Hunan Province.When he was young his parents apprenticed him to a carpenter.He...
Huang Gongwang，Ni Zan，Wu Zhen and Wang Meng were entitled“Four Great Painters”because of their excellent landscape paintings. Huang Gongwang（1269-1354）was born in...
Chinese is an ideographic language，and in ancient times most of the Chinese characters were written with strokes according to the...
Gu Kaizhi（348-409）was born into an official family in today's Jiangsu Province. While young，he served as a court official.He was famous...
Chu Ci，translated as the Songs of the South，Elegies of Chu，or Verse of the Chu State，refers to both a new kind...
Painting in Primitive Times In the Paleolithic Age，there appeared Rock Painting in China.In the Neolithic Age，rock paintings began to show...
The Early and Middle Zhou Dynasty was powerful enough to be able to control the vassal states，preventing them from fighting...