ANCIENT CHINA

SOURCES

1. World Faiths, SA Nigosian, Victoria College, Toronto, 1994.
 

TIMELINE

Human remains and cultural artifacts: Hwang River Valley – 1500 BC.

Earlier Hsia Dynasty?

Shang Dynasty (1500-1125 BC)

• Ideographic writing

• 2 wheel chariot

Chou Dynasty (1125-221)

• earliest writings of religious ideas:

• Five Classics

Shu Ching (Book of History)
Shih Ching (Book of Poems)
I Ching (Book of Changes)
Chun Chiu (Spring and Autumn Annals)
Li Chi (Records of Ceremonies)
Lost 6^th book of music

• Lao Tzu first mentioned in Chuang Tzu written 4^th or 3^rd cent BC as his teacher.

• Concept of Yin-Yang could be as old as 1000 BC.

Destroyed in the Ch’in Dynasty (221-206)

Restored in the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)