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Clothing

Clothing. During the early Shang period people made clothing from animal skins. As people discovered and domesticated plants, animals, and silkworms, new types of fabric were made. Clothing. Men and women both wore long belted tunics with jackets overtop.

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Clothing

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  1. Clothing • During the early Shang period people made clothing from animal skins. • As people discovered and domesticated plants, animals, and silkworms, new types of fabric were made.

  2. Clothing • Men and women both wore long belted tunics with jackets overtop. • Pants were not worn until later in the Shang dynasty.

  3. Hanfu Ruqun

  4. Clothing • Silk production, or sericulture, became an important art and industry. • Silk took a long time to make and was expensive to produce; it was considered extremely precious. • Peasant clothing was made from rough fibre like hemp and banana leaf. Banana Leaf Shoes

  5. Clothing • Hair styles ranged from simple to elaborate based on your social class. • Wealthy women’s hair could be adorned with combs and pins of jade, bone, and ivory.

  6. Housing • Many Shang cities had large walls protecting them from attack. China has a great love of great walls…

  7. Housing • The city of Anyang was the last capital of the Shang dynasty. • Wealthy people such as government officials and the emperor lived in the city. • Merchants, crafts people, and farmers lived outside of the city (farmers would return to their fields in the summer).

  8. Technology • The Chinese used the potter’s wheel to design elaborate pottery.

  9. Technology • Bronze vessels were made for the nobility and for use in religious ceremonies.

  10. Technology • The differential windlass was invented by the Chinese and was used to lift heavy objects.

  11. Technology • Farmers had digging forks, flails, hoes, ploughs, sickles, and querns.

  12. Religious and Spiritual Beliefs • Most people believed in the spirit world. • The most important god was Tien, the god of heaven.

  13. Religious and Spiritual Beliefs • The Shang people practiced ancestor worship and believed in filial piety (younger family members were respectful of elder members of the family and the community).

  14. Religious and Spiritual Beliefs • Common people worshiped a variety of deities that they believed controlled the forces of nature. (to provide better crops) • Wu, were sorcerers who provided spells for the people. They could be a man or a woman. (This changed during the Zhou dynasty)

  15. Religious and Spiritual Beliefs • When a ruler died he was buried with all things that would be needed by him in the afterlife: weapons, chariots, ornaments, horses, pets, and humans.

  16. The military was often battling people of neighbouring areas, especially those along the Yangtze River.

  17. The nobles were the warriors who led the armies. • Chariots were rode into battle and weapons were made of bronze.

  18. Some China’s military leaders were women; one of the most notable from the Shang period is Lady Hao.

  19. The End of the Shang Dynasty • The Shang dynasty ruled for approximately five centuries. • The dynasty ended when cruel rulers were over thrown by a revolt. • The group from the west, called the Zhou, claimed that because the Shang ruler was not taking care of his people he had lost the mandate of heaven.

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