Tang+and+Song+China


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What do we know about where this was created? What have we learned about this topic? Society that may be relevant? In China, it was really hard to maintain and obtain jobs of importance. It could be very beneficial to you if you were given a shot. ||  || Who is the intended audience? How might they receive this? – quotes to support your claims? In this specific example, the person addressed was Wu Bao. Bao may have received this as a desperate plea to obtain a job. ||  || What is the purpose of this document? Read between the lines, support claims with a quote The purpose is to convince Wu Bao that he is willing to do a lot to get a job with him. It also shows how much Wu would care about her empire. Shows how the bureakucracy worked. ||  || Support with quotes The MI is Siu trying to convince Bao to give him a job. He displays his "readiness to help those in distress" this proves that he is willing to do anything to get a job. ||  || How does this relate to the big picture? What can it tell us as historians? Relate to ESPIRIT if possible It relates to the big picture, because it basically describes what and how the bureaucracy really worked. ||  ||
 * Author – This document was written by a Tang author named Niu Su. The main focus on writing this was to addrees Wu Bao, a chinese official, when asking for a job. ||  ||
 * **Place** – Where and when was it created - It was created in the Tang dynasty of Post classical China. ||  ||
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 * ** Audience **
 * ** Reason for Creation **
 * ** The Main Idea **
 * ** Significance **

POV: This tell us that even thought the dynasty wanted to excel in the power of the bureaocrats, aristocratic families were still being used and they could still have some form of power in the government.

Presentations: Tang and Song China

Social: Politics: R AND I   Buddhism was reached its peak buddhism was very influential and higlhy popular among the lower class Daoism “that way main message is about finding the ultimate truth to the universe very popular with the upperclass. had little influence over Buddhism created gunpowder block printin were characters were earnedd. || Economics Social: Politics: R AND I   Social: Politics: Differences Song never matched Tang in both political and military strengths officials salaries in Song China were extremely high. R AND I
 * Tang ||  Song  ||  Shared  ||
 * Economics
 * 1)  Trade and commerce developed
 * 2)  Canal was built which increased trade and imporoved commercial expansion,.
 * 3)  Traded horses, persian rugs, and tapestries were imported, while silk, paper.
 * 4)  Rice and millet were produced.
 * 5)  Paper money was being invented.
 * 6)  Money before was like coins used today before paper money was invented.
 * 7)  Farming was huge to trade and the wealth of the people.
 * 8)  Made heavy ironed plows to help farming,
 * 9)  Used devices, to help make the production cotton a lot more efficient.
 * 1)  Allowed social mobility through the Imperial Examination system.
 * 2)  They had to go through teses which let young men rise in power
 * 3)  Tang social pyramid: emperor, aristocracy, bureaucracy, peasants.
 * 4)  Women were never equal to men.
 * 5)  However some were able to have some power. There were some emperesses.
 * 6)  They served as negotiation tools
 * 7)  Concubines
 * 8)  Men couldn’t set aside their lives for financial reasons
 * 9)  Gave slighlty more freedom to women than the Song
 * 10)  Tended to farm and carry out other government work
 * 1)  Education was major
 * 2)  The Ministry of Rites
 * 3)  Birth and family and ethic reliugion ties
 * 4)  Empress Wu tried to make Buddhism a state religion.
 * 5)  Exams on philosophical or legal classics and Chinerse literature jinshi.
 * 6)  Buddhism was made a strong
 * 1)  Towns grew into cities.
 * 2)  Bureacuracy was stacked with a lot of people, which allowed people to not have to work as hard.
 * 3)  More people were becoming wealthy.
 * 4)  Capital of the Song dynasty was Hangzhou.
 * 5)  By the mid 11 th century there were nearly one million soldiers and that was also draining the money.
 * 1)  Feudal Sytem developed in rural areas.
 * 2)  A scholar gentry calss developed.
 * 3)  Many gov officials were expected to persue art.
 * 4)  Their social period was basically the same.
 * 5)  Complementary lovers
 * 6)  Educated but meek and dainty.
 * 7)  Power only withing private sphere
 * 8)  Virginity and virtue were prized.
 * 9)  Foot binding, because they were trying to get men
 * 10)  Women ran the family and the households.
 * 11)  Supported by Confucianism
 * 12)  They were not encouraged to marry a second time.
 * 13)  They were not allowed to have premarital sex unlike the men.
 * 14)  Me dominated the social sphere.
 * 15)  Suppressed women
 * 1)  first emeperor was Zhao Kuangyin whoi signed a treaty with they Khitans to keep them from raiding and conquering Song
 * 2)  civil officials were allowed to be governors
 * 3)  rulers prompted interest in Confucian scholar-gentry officials salaries increased.
 * 4)  civil service exams were routine
 * 5)  every thiree years people were required to pass all of the examinations.
 * 6)  downside to many people were passing
 * 7)  more people passes in the song
 * 1)  Buddhism declines over the general population
 * 2)  Neoconfucianism gained popularity
 * 3)  stressed womens role as the homemaker
 * 4)  were not tolerent of Buddhism
 * 5)  proposed the idea of male supremecy and the revival of traditional ideas languages, and values..
 * 6)  entertainment was valued
 * 7)  performance arts gained popularitu
 * 8)  used fireworks to entertain locals
 * 9)  daily basis shows were performed
 * 10)  pottery
 * 11)  calligraphy
 * 12)  paintings
 * 13)  kept a secret trade
 * 14)  survival of Neo-confucianism
 * 15)  foot binding  ||  Economics
 * 16)  Grand Canal.
 * 17)  External trade occurred.
 * 18)  Flying money prevented the theft on journeys.
 * 19)  Both relied on trade and expansion
 * 20)  Main economic source was farming,
 * 21)  Both used the Silk Road.
 * 1)  Practiced footbonding
 * 2)  Unfair double standars about pre-marital sex
 * 3)  Disagreed with Buddhist views on the roles of women.
 * 1)  ruled by emperors
 * 2)  nomadic invadors
 * 3)  exams given to bureaucrats
 * 1)  Buddhism helped create tolerance and understanding for the countries and civilizations  ||