Shang houses and altars – Shang Dynasty China
The Shang Dynasty city wall around Zhengzhou (thanks to Gary Todd) There was a city wall of rammed earth around the Shang capital at An-yang, and around other cities like [...]
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Shang Dynasty Architecture – Early China
Remains of the Shang Dynasty palace at Erlitou The beginning of Chinese architecture Even as early as the Shang Dynasty, about 1500 BC, the buildings we know about look like [...]
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Chinese pagodas – Architecture – China
Song Dynasty pagoda (Hong Kong) About 200 AD, near the end of the Han Dynasty, people in China began to hear about the new religion of Buddhism, which had started in [...]
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Ming Dynasty Architecture – Forbidden City
Hall of Supreme Harmony Forbidden City (Beijing, 1406 AD) - Ming Dynasty Architecture What's the Forbidden City? Early Ming Emperors built Taoist temples to show their power, like the Golden [...]
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Early Chinese Architecture
Early Chinese architecture - A typical Chinese house Chinese houses Most people in ancient China could not afford to live in fancy houses. They lived in small houses made of [...]
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Han Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
Eastern Han watchtower (an ancient Chinese model, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did people build in the Han Dynasty? By the time of the Han Dynasty, about [...]
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Golden Hall – Chinese Architecture
Golden Hall (Wudang Mountain, 1416 AD) Who built the Golden Hall? Ming Dynasty emperors built the Golden Hall palace on the slopes of Wudang Mountain in 1416 AD. The Golden [...]
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Draw a top plan – Architecture project
Top plan of a kid's room (thanks to SmartDraw) There aren't any standing buildings left from the Shang Dynasty, so we know about Shang Dynasty architecture mainly from top plans. These [...]
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Forbidden City Story Project – Medieval China
A man writing (Ming Dynasty China) Read Quatr.us Study Guide's article about the Ming Dynasty Forbidden City very carefully. Then write a story that takes place in the Forbidden City. In your [...]
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Zhou Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
A fancy roof tile from the Zhou Dynasty What were people building? By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, about 1100 BC, there seem to have been a lot of [...]
