China Flashcards
(50 cards)
The art of each dynasty can be distinguished by its?
Unique Characteristics and developments.
Earliest Treasures of Chinese Art
Jade Carvings & Cast Bronzes
The earlist surviving examples of Chinese painting are fragments of painting on silk, stone, and lacquer items dating to …
The Warring States Period
Beginning with the establishment of the Easterm Jin Dynasty, __ & ___ were highly appreciated arts in court circles.
Painting and Calligraphy
The earliest paintings of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
figure paintings, landscapes & bird and flower
The first pictorial decorations were ___ & ___, which eventually evolved into symmetrical - geometric abstract designs, some painted.
Fish & Human Faces
The most distinctive feature of _____ culture was the extensive use of painted pottery, especially human facial, animal, and geometric designs.
Yangshao
According to archaeologists, Yangshao society was based around…
Matriarchal clans
Excavations have found that ____ were buried in painted pottery jars.
Children
Tools such as hammerheads, ax heads, and knives were made of jade nephrite during the _____ period.
Neolithic
The jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked, large ritual jades such as Cong cylinders, Bi discs, Yue axes, pendants, and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates, and representations of small birds, turtles and fish.
Liangzhu Culture
____ has a white, milky bone-like aspect due to its origin as Tremolite rock and the influence of water-based fluids at the burial sites.
Liangzhu Jade
The Bronze Age in China began with the ___
Xia Dynasty
The _____ are recognized for their bronze casting, and noted for their clarity of detail.
Shang dynasty
Shang bronzes became appreciated as works of art during the
Song Dynasty
_____ Covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide.
Blue and white pottery
The ___ was brief in duration but very important in Chinese history.
Qin Dynasty
China is derived from the name
Qin
Following the Zhou Dynasty, ____ became involved in a seemingly endless conflict between the various regions for supreme control country.
China
The ____ bore a strong resemblance to some of the forms of feudalism in medieval Europe, which is why the Zhou age is sometimes referred to as a feudal age.
Zhou Government
Composed of a network of city-states loyal to the Zhou king, from which military and political control spread over the surrounding farming villages.
China
Transferred titles of the nobility and huge estates to the chief of Qin.
King Ping of Zhou
The Qin statesman _____ advocated total war and a disregard for the polite policies of battle which Chinese generals had always adhered to.
Shang Yang
About 230 BCE, when the final campaign to unify China began it is estimated that ___ controlled one-third of all the land under cultivation in China and one-third of China’s total population.
Qin
