Ancient Chinese Inventions - Part 1Discovery Science video - this segment includes the paddle boats, terracotta warriors, cross bows, metal stirrups, iron plow, plant crops in rows, etc.
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Part 2Wheelbarrows, chain pump, canals, locks, longitude and lattitude, earthquake detector,
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Part 3Compass, gyroscope, odometer, sail carriages, shipbuilding, and sailing vessels.
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Part 4Methods to furl and unfurl sails, rudder, bulkheads, continuous flame thrower, multi-staged rocket,
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SilkDiscovered in China in 2697BC
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Traditional Chinese Han Fu Clothing |
The Origin of Kites
Here are some excerpts from the online article:
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Inventions of the Great Ancient Chinese EmpireThe first 3 minutes of this video clip describes the Chinese invention of kites and how they were used.
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Paper MakingPaper was invented in 105AD by Cai Lun.
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Wooden movable-type printing of ChinaUNESCO: List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding - 2010. One of the world's oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Rui'an County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies.
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Paper Cuts - A Popular Folk ArtPaper cutting is a popular folk art in rural China for several thousand years. Today we will present you some techniques and themes of this folk art.
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Chinese Paper Cutting - Fast Forward |
Appreciating Chinese Brush PaintingsSince the Chinese Song dynasty, brush painting has been characterized by containing four elements: poetry, painting, calligraphy and stamp.
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Ancient Chinese Paintings |
NOTE: If you want to learn how to Chinese Brush paint something in particular, just search on YouTube for "chinese brush painting <subject>". For example search for "chinese brush painting fish".
Trick of Chinese Brush Painting |
How to Paint a Blue Heron |
Chinese CloisonneThe earliest extant Cloisonne was made in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
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Chinese Snuff Bottles |
Reverse Glass Painting |
The Chinese Gunpowder
In the mid-ninth century, Chinese chemists, hard at work on an immortality potion, instead invented gunpowder. They soon found that this highly inflammable powder was far from an elixir of life -- they put it to use in bombs against Mongol invaders, and the rest was history. Eric Rosado details how gunpowder has caused devastation around the world, despite the incandescent beauty of fireworks.
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Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century, documented and used in ancient China where the Chinese military forces used gunpowder based weapons technology (i.e. rockets, guns, cannons) and explosives (i.e. grenades and different types of bombs)...
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Jade |
MoneyAccording to the History of Money on the Nova Website:
1200 B.C.: COWRIE SHELLSThe first use of cowries, the shells of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many societies have used cowries as money, and even as recently as the middle of this century, cowries have been used in some parts of Africa. The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history. 1000 B.C.: FIRST METAL MONEY AND COINSBronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age and could be considered some of the earliest forms of metal coins. Metal tool money, such as knife and spade monies, was also first used in China. These early metal monies developed into primitive versions of round coins. Chinese coins were made out of base metals, often containing holes so they could be put together like a chain. |
Foot Binding |
Terracotta warriors |