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Meditation - Timeline

Three August Ones and Five Emperors
(2852 BC to 2205 BC)
Chinese Mythology
- Three August Ones:
  1. The Heavenly Sovereign (Fuxi)
    who ruled for 18,000 years
    
    aka Chinese Emporer Fu Hsi
    (2953 BC - 2838 BC)
    Founder of 8 trigrams of "I Ching"
  2. The Earthly Sovereign (Nuwa)
    who ruled for 11,000 years
  3. The Human Sovereign (Shennong)
    who ruled for 45,600 years
- Five Emperors:
  1. The Yellow Emperor or Huang Di
    (2698 BC to 2599 BC)
  2. Zhuanxu
    (2491 BC - 2413 BC)
  3. Emperor Ku
    (2413 BC - 2343 BC)
  4. Emperor Yao
    (2333 BC - 2234 BC)
  5. Emperor Shun
    (2233 BC - 2184 BC)
Xia or Hsia Dynasty
(2183 BC - 1523 BC)
- Yu the Great (Da Yu)
  (2183 BC - 2138 BC)
  Founder of the Xia Dynasty
  Founder of 64 hexagrams of "I Ching"
  First use of written symbols
Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty
(1523 BC - 1027 BC)
Fist historic dynasty
Well developed writing.
First Chinese calendar.
Zhou or Chou Dynasty
(1027 BC - 256 BC)
Classical age
Written laws
- Laozi or Lao Tzu
  (550 BC?)
  Wrote "Tao Te Ching" between 600 BC and 200 BC
  Founder of Taoism
- Confucius
  (551 BC - 479 BC)?
  Author, editor, or compiler of Wu Ching (Five Classics)
- Siddhartha Gautama BUDDHA
  (563 BC to 483 BC)
- Chung Tzu
Warring States Period
(403 BC - 221 BC)
Qin or Ch'in Dynasty
(221 BC - 206 BC)
Unification on harsh rule of Shih Huang Ti
Written language standardized
Much of Great Wall built
Han Dynasty
(202 BC - 220 AD)
Further unification, less harsh
Confucianism made basis for bureaucracy
Buddhism introduced
Encyclopedia and dictionary compiled
Three Kingdoms Period
(220 AD - 265 AD)
Division into three states (Wei, Shu and Wu)
Taoism and Buddhism prominent
Scientific advances from India
Tsin or Chin Dynasty
(265 AD - 420 AD)
Founded by Wei general
Expanded southeast
Series of barbarian dynasties ruled north China
Buddhism growth
Six Dynasties
(316 AD - 589 AD)
Sui Dynasty
(581 AD - 618 AD)
Reunification, centralized government
Buddhism and Taoism favored
Great Wall fortified
Tang Dynasty
(618 AD - 907 AD)
Territorial expansion
Buddhism suppressed
Confucianism basis for Civil Service exams
Great achievements in poetry, sculpture, and painting
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
(907 AD - 960 AD) Period of warfare, corruption, hardship
Money first printed
Song or Sung Dynasty
(960 AD - 1279 AD)
Neo-Confucianism attains supremacy
over Taoism and Buddhism
Central bureaucracy reestablished
Cultivation of tea and cotton
Gunpowder first used by military
Yuan Dynasty
(1271 AD - 1368 AD)
Mongol Dynasty founded by Kublai Khan
Growing contact with West
Confucian ideals discouraged
Great age of Chinese playwriting
Ming Dynasty
(1368 AD - 1644 AD)
Mongols expelled
Confucianism reinstated
Contact with European traders and missionaries
Porcelain architecture, novels, and drama flourish
Qing or Ch'ing or Manchu Dynasty
(1644 AD - 1912 AD)
Established by the Manchus
Decline of central authority
Foreign powers divide China
Opium War
Hong Kong ceded
Boxer Uprising
Last Chinese monarchy
Nationalist Period
(1912 AD - 1949 AD)
People's Republic of China
(1949 AD - present)

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