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China. What is the connection between government and religion and how does that compare to the other civilizations?. Divination : Oracle Bones: On notes, two sentences Should they still be a ruler?. Divination/ Oracle Bones/ Mandate of Heaven Connection:

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  1. China

  2. What is the connection between government and religion and how does that compare to the other civilizations? • Divination : • Oracle Bones: • On notes, two sentences • Should they still be a ruler?

  3. Divination/ Oracle Bones/ Mandate of Heaven • Connection: • Question about the mandate?, Use oracle bones to divinize/ prophesize the answer. • What kind of connection between religion and government? • Duke of Shao reading, looking for connection between government and religion • In notes: write down the quotes that show this.

  4. Government and Religion • Compare/ Contrast • China, Mesopotamia, Egypt • Purpose between the connection • What does that connection tell us about civilization?

  5. Egypt Social life from the family Role of men and women? Your family organization, what does that say about American culture? - it might be negative

  6. Family as a representation of social interaction • Family reading • Looking for information about social interactions across the whole civilization • Comparing to your family

  7. Findings • In your notes • Write down the quotes from the reading “The family and the Individual in Chinese Society” • Social Organization: laws, that might tell us about the social organization of the civilization • Compare the rules about social interaction in China with the interaction in another civilization we have studied (claim).

  8. Static or Dynamic • Review your opinion of the Ancient Chinese dynasties in terms of static or dynamic from yesterday. • Do you still agree with your hypothesis? Why? • Do you consider the other civilizations to be static or dynamic?

  9. Chinese Bronzes The Shang and Zhou Dynasties

  10. Bronze age Somewhere around 2000-1800 BCE the Shang dynasty began to cast bronze. Like most cultures that began to use bronze in an early stage, it was put to weaponry.

  11. But what set the Shang apart in early bronze metallurgy was that they began to devote a great deal of attention to intricate detail and casting things other than common weapons, including ceremonial weapons and vessels. Ritual wine vessels

  12. Ceremonial axes

  13. The Legend of the Founding of the First Dynasty – the Xia Mythical King Yu brought the primordial floods under control, divided his land into nine provinces, and had nine food cauldrons cast to represent them.

  14. When the Xia fell, the nine bronzes, also called “The Auspicious Bronzes of the State,” passed to the Shang, and in turn, to the Zhou when they conquered the Shang. Possession of bronze vessels became a symbol for power and prestige.

  15. Shang and Zhou rulers used cauldrons, cups, pitchers, and other vessels to present offerings to deities and ancestors

  16. Thus rulers reaffirmed their hereditary rights to power and attempted to persuade the gods and their ancestors to influence events favorably.

  17. Spouted ritual wine vessel (Guang), Shang dynasty,13th century BCE

  18. Detail of ritual wine vessel The designs on the vessels depicted real and imaginary animal forms, as well as geometric patterns.

  19. Many of the designs are formed into animal masks (taotie). The background is a series of spiral patterns, often one animal form flows into another animal form.

  20. Many of the vessels themselves were cast in the shape of animals, both real and imaginary. dragon rhinoceros

  21. owl

  22. During the Western Zhou, zoomorphic forms became more abstract.

  23. The Eastern Zhou added vessels with purely geometric patterns.

  24. Casting Method First a clay model was made and then encased with outer layer of damp clay; when firm, the outer layer was cut off in sections and fired to form a mold.

  25. Next, the model was shaved down to become the core. Sections of mold were reassembled around the core and molten bronze was poured into the gap between the two.

  26. Once cooled, the mold and core were removed and the vessel polished.

  27. Ceremonial bell, Eastern Zhou, early 5th century. Height 15 in.

  28. Detail of bell

  29. Twenty-six bronze zhong bells (c. 550 BCE). Xichuan, height 23.6-120.4 cm.

  30. “With these elaborately cast vessels, bronze itself became an art form. It moved from the utilitarian to something…very meaningful and deeply religious not only to the rulers but to the Chinese civilization…in general”.

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