Tang+and+Song+China


 * =====**Author** – Who created this? What do we know about the author? What might influence their opinions? ===== || =====The author of the document is Niu Su who wrote the story of Tang but, the Wu Bao used the story to help attach him to win the advancement to the imperial bureaucracy. ===== ||
 * =====**Place** – Where and when was it created - ===== || =====Was created in China during the Tang and part of the Song dynasties. ===== ||
 * =====**Prior Knowledge **=====

What do we know about where this was created? What have we learned about this topic? Society that may be relevant?
|| =====What is known about this document is it was created for the Chinese bureaucracy, from maybe a lower class wanting to get a higher position within the society. =====

· To win a higher position a good education was not enough to get around in the societies during the Tang and Song dynasties.
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 * =====**Audience **=====

Who is the intended audience? How might they receive this? – quotes to support your claims?
|| =====The audience that the document is referring to is the prime ministers family to try and make a connection. The story maybe given to someone of higher authority as a letter. =====

· Show maybe as a short-story the desperation of some people had for a job.
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 * =====**Reason for Creation **=====

What is the purpose of this document? Read between the lines, support claims with a quote
|| =====The purpose of this document was to get the attention of the higher authorities to get a message across, and try to gain something to help boost them in society. =====

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“If by your boundless favor I could take part in this triumphal progress, even as a member of the rear-most company, the day would live engrave on my memory”. =====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">· Show the relationships and social statues were crucial in determining the type of office one can hold.
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 * =====**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Main Idea **=====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Support with quotes
|| =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The main idea is to show the affect how the Chinese bureaucracy during the Tang and Song era and tell the prime minister the events that happened in his life and how that Wu Bao will remember everything. ===== ||
 * =====**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Significance **=====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How does this relate to the big picture? What can it tell us as historians? Relate to ESPIRIT if possible
|| =====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The document relates to the big picture by that it was written during the Tang and Song era. And what it can tell is as historians is that it tells how the bureaucracy government during imperialism and how it worked within those two dynasties. =====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">· How’s the lower class determination to advance within society.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">P.O.V: This tells is that the Tang and Song era wanted to excel into their Chinese bureaucracy and some aristocrats had power in the government. But this was the start of showing corruption within the society. =====

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Presentations: ESPIRIT Chart
- Trade was an important part with in their economy. · Society: - Allowed for social mobility through the imperial examinational system, which let young men rise to power in the beaucratic system. - A gentry’s class developed from bureaucracy. - Woman had rights within the Tang dynasty they let them have a higher social statues. - Could become part of Daoism, but they could become prostitutes but were still well educated. - Men could not set aside their woman. · Political: - Education played a major role. - The Ministry of Rites - If you pass the exam then you are rewarded with the title of jinshi - Empress Wu tried to make Buddhism a state religion. · Intellectuals and Religion: - Buddhism reached its peak during the tang dynasty. - Helped create tolerance and understanding. - Build up their economy, made a law code. || · Economics: -The song dynasty had 1 million soldiers to protect from nomadic invaders. - Well trained mercenary rather have peasants fight. - Trade and commercialism developed. - Traded rugs and other luxury goods, while textiles were traded by merchants. - Merchants could take out the same amount of money without being robbed. · Society: - A feudal type system… - In the Song dynasty was that it was complementary lovers for woman. - Educated but meek and dainty. - Power only within - Private sphere. - Virtue and virginity was prized. · Political: - First emperor Zhao Kuangyln- signed a treaty with the Khitians. (stop raids and protect song china) - Rulers promoted interests in Confusion scholars. · Intellectuals and Religion: - Pure land appealed to the lower classes. - Buddhism declined. - Neo-Confucianism: stressed women role as a homemaker. - Proposed the idea of male dominance and the revival of tradition, languages and values. || · Economics -Both Dynasties used the Grand Canal to infernal trade and to supply millet and rice to both make things easier in the south. - Farming was big within both dynasties; trade was part of building up the kingdoms. · Society: - Both dynasties used foot binding. - Both had unfair laws between woman and men bout how one can do this but the other cannot do that. · Political: - Both ruled by an emperor. - Both had nomadic invaders and political bullies. - Exams given out to bureaucrats. ||
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 * · Economics: