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The main character -Zhao Di was a second wife, because the first wife cannot give birth so she allows her husband marriage with Zhao Di. However, Zhao Di give birth three daughters. At that period, if women just give birth girl consider as cannot give birth. Therefore, after Zhao Di’s husband dead, her husband’s first wife force Zhao Di and her three daughters leave the home although that time Zhao Di pregnant. So, Zhao Di doesn’t have a choice, she just can go back his father home in the countryside

Human sacrifice Yizhuo Chen 12/21/2016 Human sacrifice is an important matter and human behavior in prehistory in the evolution of ancient civilization. It is the act of killing human. Usually human sacrifice comes with deity as a ritual activity. Throughout history, human sacrifice has been practiced in diverse cultures and different civilizations. As far as I know, there are some bizarre methods of human sacrifice in history. In Ancient Egypt, pharaohs had the

Xiuyuan Guo Professor Cook WRA 101 November 21, 2016 Jade: The Chinese Diamond Jade, a beautiful green stone is China’s most popular material for jewelry better than other artifacts. As time passed, it became more important within the culture including religious symbols and civilization. There were a lot of other materials used for decoration like gold, silver, bronze etc, but no one could replace the position of jade in Chinese people’s minds. Jade can represent a lot of symbols. We can see it from

Yuan Zhao was a Daoist healer in ancient China [471-99] who used his knowledge of the five phases to diagnose and cure a young girl of evil demons that had made her sick after numerous other Chinese healers were unable to even understand the source of her afflictions, which is meant to spread Daoism as much as tell a story. The story is a good example of ancient Chinese medical practices but to fully understand how the different elements of his story fit together it is helpful to have information

Student Name: ZHEN HU Student ID: GEC00000A3 Unit Code: VU2169 – Read and write straightforward descriptive and narrative texts Task1 1. My beautiful dog 2. She has a beautiful dog. When he was a puppy, his ears are like cat’s ears and he doesn’t like taking a bath. He is black and white and the eyes are blue color. 3. Her dog name is lucky. He is a s Siberian Husky, she loves him and going to take care of him for all her life. 4. The nine years old girl has a dog, her dog name is lucky and he is

issues. The spread of the demonstrations concerned Party leaders, who thought there was going to be rebellion from the protesters. Li Peng, who ranked second in the Party, believed that they should “nip it in the bud,” while Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang thought that Yaobang’s memorial

emperor in 907. China divided itself into divisions once again. North China had Five Dynasties while the South separated in ten regimes. Zhao Kuangyin was the leader of the Song Dynasty before it became one. He lead an army north against a rumored Kitan invasion. is officers entered his residence on the second morning of the march and hailed him as emperor. Once Zhao Kuangyin was emperor, he changed his name to Emperor Taizu. He was the emperor of the Song from 960-976 CE. Emperor Taizu wanted to clearly

During the time prior to the infamous June 4 Massacre in Tiananmen Square China, there were numerous events in which provoked political tension and ultimately stimulated the massacre itself. These events date back to Hu Yaobang’s death followed by the AFS’ seven requests, Deng Xiaoping’s editorial, the student hunger strike, Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit to China and the imposed martial law causing the tragic massacre. The Chinese Government, citizens, students, PLA and even some foreign journalists

Rothschild, N. Harry. 2008. Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor. New York: Pearson Longman Historical, political and social background: Wu Zhao belonged to the Tang Empire, which according to the author which “…was a true empire, encompassing many lands, many peoples, and many ideologies. Multi ethnic and cosmopolitan, Tang China was perfectly suited for the ascent of a historical anomaly like Wu Zhao…” (Rothschild, 2008, p. 11) In a sense, there was a conflict of traditional Confucian values

Although Ban Zhao was a woman, she was behind a sexist piece of literature meant for instruction towards women. It isn't too hard to see this at face value, but there is more going on here than just that in "Lessons for Women". Ban Zhao was a woman who embraced the sexism and strict gender roles in ancient China who also wrote for and taught women how to be like her in this way, her style and perspective were certainly telling of this, and so was her word choice, intentions, and audience. Ban Zhao, was