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the silk road

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The Silk Road was a route used to transport silk.

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yin and yang

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this is a foreign merchant in northern China.

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silk road

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Ancient Chinese art

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the silk road is a long thing in china witch is over 3900 miles long

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it was over 4000 miles long

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Bailey Kuijpers - Map of China Showing the Silk Road 

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Bailey Kuijpers - Map of China Showing the Silk Road 

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The Silk Road was a trade route that went from China to Eastern Europe. It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea.

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There were cities built on the rare oasis. It was never easy to travel by land from China to Rome.

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Map

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The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.[1]

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The Silk Road was 4000 miles long (6437km)

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It was a very dangerous trip. The Silk Road was a nickname for any route that any trader took from China to Rome.

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Merchants and tradesmen traveled in large caravans. They would have many guards with them. Traveling in a big group like a caravan helped in defending from bandits

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The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.

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this is a map of silk road

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the silk road was not made out of silk

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The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.

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the chinese invented lots of things.

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alcohol

mechanical clock

gun powder

toilet paper

pottery dishes

fireworks

silk

kung fu

buddah

compass

moveabable type writter

ice cream

crossbow

umbrella

chopsicks

ink

indian ink

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paper, ice cream,gun powder, porcelain, fireworks, chopstick, toilet paper, silk, crossbow, rope, ink, umbrella,

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this is a list of the gods

Ao
Description:  The 4 dragon kings named Ao Ch'in, Ao Kuang, Ao Jun and Ao Shun.  Each was responsible for a part of Earth and an area of sea.  During droughts, teh dragon kings were worshipped with noisy parades of music and dance which followed a cloth effigy of a dragon.  Every stream and river had its own Ao.

Ch'ang-o
Other Names:  Heng-o.
Description:  Goddess of the Moon and wife of I.

Ch'eng-Huang
Description:  God of walls and ditches.  Each town/village had its own local Ch'eng-Huang.
Rules Over:  Protection, justice.

Chih-Nii
Other Names:  Chih Nu
Description:  Goddess of spinners, weavers and clouds.
Rules Over:  Handcrafts, rain.

Ch'in-Shu-Pao
Description:  Guardian God.  T'ang dynasty military hero elevated to the job of guarding doors.
Rules Over:  Protection, privacy.

Chuang-Mu
Description:  Goddess of the bedroom and sexual delights.
Rules Over:  Sex.

Chu-Jung
Description:  God of fire and executions.
Rules Over:  Justice, revenge, death.

Erh-Lang
Description:  God who chases away evil spirits and shape-shifter who had up to 72 different bodily forms.  Widely worshipped.
Rules Over:  Protection from evil.

Feng-Po-Po
Description:  Goddess of winds.
Rules Over:  Storms, moisture.

Fu-Hsi
Other Names:  Fu-Hsing.
Description:  God of happiness, symbolized by the bat.
Rules Over:  Destiny, love, success.

Hou-Chi
Description:  Ancient harvest God.  Depicted as a kindly old man with millet stalks growing on his head.
Rules Over:  Harvest, crops.

Hsi Wang Mu
Other Names:  Wang-Mu Niang-Niang, Weiwobo.
Description:  Highest Goddess of ancient China.  Her palace iss in the Khun-lun mountain where she protects the herb of immortality.
Rules Over:  Curing disease.

Hsuan-T'ien-Shang-Ti
Description:  Ruler of Water, God who removes evil spirits and demons.
Rules Over:  Exorcism.

Hu-Tu
Other Names:  Hou-T'u
Description:  Female deity Earth.  The Emperor offered sacrifices to her on a square marble altar in the Forbidden City each summer solstice.
Rules Over:  Earth magick, fertility.

I-Ti
Description:  God of wine who invented winemaking.
Rules Over:  Wine.

Kuan Ti
Description:  God of war and fortunetelling.  Shown dressed in green and had a red face.
Rules Over:  Protection, valor, justice, divination, revenge, death, dark magick, prophecy.

Kuan Yin
Other Names:  Kwan Yin, Kwannon.
Description:  Great Mother, patroness of priestesses.  Sometime depicted holding a child.  It is thought this Goddess sits on her paradise island of P'u T'o and answers every prayer to her.
Rules Over:  Success, mercy, purification, fertility, children, motherhood, childbirth, healing, enlightenment.

K'uei-Hsing
Other Names:  Chung-Kuei.
Description:  Protector of travelers.  God of tests and examinations, literature and students.
Rules Over:  Protection during travel, tests, literature, students.

Lan Ts'ai-Ho
Description:  One of the 8 Immortals of ancient China, this Goddess dressed as a woman but had a male voice.  Carried a flute and basket of fruit.
Rules Over:  Music, fertility.

Lao-Tien-Yeh
Description:  The Jade Emperor.  "Father Heaven."

Lei-King
Other Names:  Lei-Kung.
Description:  God of thunder and retribution, he had few shrines.  Shown as an ugly man with blue skin, wings and claws, clad in a loincloth.  He punished the guilty that human law did not touch.
Rules Over:  Justice, punishment.

Lo Shen
Description:  Goddess of rivers.
Rules Over:  Water magick.

Lu-Hsing
Description:  God of pay and employees.  Symbol was a deer which he rode on.
Rules Over:  Prosperity, success, law, employment.

Lu-Pan
Other Names:  Lupan.
Description:  God of carpenters and masons.
Rules Over:  Artistic abilities, fame.

Ma-Ku
Description:  Goddess of springtime.
Rules Over:  Spring rites.

Men Shen
Description:  Two deities who warded the door against evil spirits and hostile influences.  One had a red or black face, the other a white face.  They both wore military dress, holding a long-handled mace.
Rules Over:  Protection.

Meng-Po Niang Niang
Description:  Goddess who lived just inside the door to hell where those reincarnating would depart.  Her sacred potion, of which she gave a few drops to each departing person, made all humans forget previous lives.
Rules Over: Passing over rites, past-lives.

Nu Kua
Description:  Creator Goddess who made humankind.
Rules Over:  Creation.

Pa
Description:  Goddess of droughts.
Rules Over:  Droughts.

P'an-Chin-Lien
Description:  Goddess of prostitutes.
Rules Over:  Prostitution.

Pi-Hsia Yuan Chin
Description:  Goddess of childbirth and labor, she brings health and good fortune to the newborn and protection to the mother.
Rules Over:  Protection, good fortune, health, childbirth, labor.

Sao-Ts'ing Niang
Description:  Goddess of the clouds.
Rules Over:  Ending droughts.

Shaka-Nyorai
Other Names:  Sakyamuni.
Description:  Historical Buddha.
Rules Over:  Virtue, enlightenment, self-realization.

Shang-Ti
Description:  The Supreme God.

Shen Nung
Description:  God of medicine, pharmacy, agriculture.
Rules Over:  Medicine, pharmacy, agriculture.

Shou-Hsing
Other Names:  Shou, Lao.
Description:  God of longevity and old people, keeper of the book of the life-span of men.  Shown with a prominent bald head with white eyebrows and whiskers.  A stag beside him, he leaned on a staff and carried a peach, symbol of immortality.
Rules Over:  Life plan, date of death, reincarnation.

Shui-Khan
Description:  God who defends men against all evil and forgives sins.
Rules Over:  Averting evil.

T'ai-Yueh-Ta-Ti
Other Names:  Tung-Yueh-Ta-Ti.
Description:  God of the affairs of men, protector of men and animals.
Rules Over:  Children, fortune, honors, fate, animals, payment of good and bad karma, prosperity, success.

Tien-Hou
Other Names:  Tien Fei.
Description:  Protectress of sailors and others in time of danger.
Rules Over:  Protection.

T'ien-Khuan
Description:  God who bestows happiness.
Rules Over:  Happiness.

Tien-Mu
Description:  Goddess of lightning.
Rules Over:  Lightning.

Ti-Khuan
Description:  God who grants remission of sins.

Ti-Tsang-Wang-Pu-Sa
Description:  God of mercy, he visited those in Hell and tried to arrange for a good reincarnation.  Depicted as a smiling robed monk with a halo around his body and carried a pearl that gave off light.
Rules Over:  Knowledge for reincarnation.

Tou-Mou
Description:  Goddess of the polestar and record-keeper; scribe of the Immortals.  Judge of all peoples.
Rules Over:  Stars, records, writing, judgement.

Tsai Shen
Other Names:  Ts'ai-Shen
Description: God of wealth, most popular chinese god.  Shown dressed in exquisite silks.
Rules Over:  Abundance, success.

Tsao-Wang
Other Names:  Tsao-Chun.
Description:  Kitchen god, god of the hearth.  Protector of families and recorder of the actions and words of each family.  His wife recorded the behavior of women in particular.  He gave his report to the Jade Emperor who then determined the family's coming fortunes.

Tsi-Ku
Other Names:  Tsi Ku Niang.
Description:  Goddess of the outhouse.  It is said that when a woman wanted to know the future, she went to the outhouse and asked Tsi-Ku.
Rules Over:  Outhouses, divination.

Twen-Ch'ang
Other Names:  Wen-Chang-Ta-Ti.
Description:  God of literature and poetry.
Rules Over:  Writing, publishing, artistic fame.

Yao-Shih
Description:  "Master of healing."
Rules Over:  Psychic abilities, healing powers.

Yeng-Wang-Yeh
Description:  FOremost of the ten Yama Kings of Lords of Death.  Ruler of hell.  He decided the fate of all new arrivals, determining if they went to a special court for trial, were punished or sent straight back to the Wheel of Life.
Rules Over:  Judgment, punishment, karmic justice.

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The Chinese invented, compasses, silk, chop sticks, porcelain, gun powder and noodles! :)

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ancient china invented kung fu ,silk, chop sticks ,porcelain,

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They invented silk. China became a very rich country because they traded with other countries, like Rome.

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Antique China coins date back to 2000 BC. They span a long history. Each coin has a unique story to tell. Their structure, design, imprints all denote the specific period and age in which they were used and the social, economic, and political conditi

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paper

chopsticks

gunpowder

noodles

silk

porcelain

compass

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they ate turtles!

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The Terracotta Army is a part of a massive burial tomb built for Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. There are over 8,000 life size statues of soldiers buried along with the emperor.

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Chinese people eat dogs

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here are some of the foods they eat:

fried rice

dogs :'(

fried chicken

chicken rang dang (curry)

spring rolls

dumplings

steamed twisted rolls

Poon Choi

rice

noodles

baked cake

pickles

fish

ect

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i find it interesting and smart for Chinese people to use chopsticks instead of knives, forks and spoons for meals. personally i find it very hard to use chopsticks.

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In china the Chinese new year is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name.

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lotus blossoms were a symbol of peace and yin yang represents that we need both night day, rain sun and sky and earth

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my favourite chinese food is fried rice.:)

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yin means dark and yang means light

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the next Chinese new year is on Thursday, February 19th 2015

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china invented silk

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i love china food <3 ;)

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the qin dynasty helped build the great wall of china

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Xia ruled between 2205 and 1766 BC

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TANG WAS THE DYNASTY AFTER THE AGE OF DIVISION

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Chinese opera began during this time as did the art of paper cutting.

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yay they have a glaive sul built the grand canal

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For many thousands of years, the ancient Chinese believed in many gods, goddesses, magical beings, dragons, and ghosts. They prayed to gods for help and safety. They also prayed to their ancestors to protect them from harm. The kitchen god was an important god. His job was to report to his boss, the Jade Emperor (another god) on the behavior of everyone in your household. No one wanted to upset the kitchen god or the report might be bad. A bad report meant bad luck would follow you all year long! It during T'ang times that China embraced two philosophies and one major religion at the same time. They were called the Three Teachings. They were an important part of daily life. The three were Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Each day, each person would do something to honor each of the three teachings each day. For example, a man might honor his ancestors by following a rigid social rule (Confucianism), practice breathing exercises (Taoism), and stop by a temple to pray (Buddhism), all in the same day. This is not to say the ancient Chinese stopped believing in other gods, like the powerful kitchen god, but these three doctrines were very important.

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Chinese invented ice-cream

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porcelain

compass

paper

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they invented alcohol and tea

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Chinese warfare maybe a pole arm if they made one hopefully they made their own glaive

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Here's some of the things that the Chinese invented: Porcelain, Gunpowder, Mechanical Clock, Smallpox Inoculation, Spinning Wheel. These are just some :)

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they ate turtles, fish and ducks!

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they invented alcohol, porcelain, silk, tea production, toilet paper, acupuncture, mechanical clocks, fortune cookies and much much more

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some things they have invented are:

Chopsticks

fireworks

Repeating crossbow

Escapement mechanism for clocks

Exploding cannonball

Fire Arrow

Gunpowder

Firearm

Horse collar

Hull compartments/bulkheads

Indian ink

Kite

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CHINESE WEAPONS

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toliet paper, fireworks, kites,ice cream, gun powder, wheel, paper, silk, crossbow, matches,tea, umbrella,jump ropes, ink and porcelain.

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CHINESE GUNPOWDER

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Story of Shadow Puppets

http://china.mrdonn.org/shadowpuppets.html

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Today, people still celebrate the Lantern Festival. Lanterns are hung in home and school and shopping malls and food markets. Children make paper lanterns at school. The idea of the Lantern Festival has remained the same - the light the way to a safe and happy new year.

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yay!

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i am doing Chinese food The ancient Chinese had a very healthy diet with lots of fresh and teamed veg

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Chopsticks were invented thousands of years ago, during Shang Dynasty

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Chinese New Year is a very old celebration, a time for repaying debts, enjoying feasts, giving "red envelopes" of lucky money to friends and relatives, and remembering ancestors. this is a picture of chinese new year.

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The Great Wall of China actually took over 1700 years to build. Each emperor continued to build it by over time.

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China discovered gunpodwer.

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i am doing Chinese new year

Yan Yat - The seventh day of the Chinese New Year is called Yan Yat, "Everybody's Birthday."

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About two weeks after the start of each new year, the ancient Chinese celebrated a holiday named the Lantern Festival. This holiday celebrated the way to a bright and happy future. To celebrate, people would light lanterns and sit out and enjoy the moon.

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they used to eat turtles

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Emperor Qin was the first man to control all of china.

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Chinese New Year is a very old celebration, a time for repaying debts, enjoying feasts, giving "red envelopes" of lucky money to friends and relatives, and remembering ancestors.

Yan Yat - The seventh day of the Chinese New Year is called Yan Yat, "Everybody's Birthday."

There are many ancient and delightful superstitions surrounding this holiday.

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chop sticks: If you find an uneven pair at your table setting, it means you are going to miss a boat, plane or train. Dropping chopsticks will inevitably bring bad luck.

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Chopsticks were invented thousands of years ago, during Shang times.

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Can we try some of their foods???

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CHINESE GODS

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i want to learn about their festivals

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everything

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what their laws were

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i want to know why they have chinese new year

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i know that it is called china

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I want to know more about the Great Wall of China and The Terra Cotta Army

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gunpowder

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I want to learn about the Chinese festivals! :)

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i want to learn if they were vilont!

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i waNT TO LEARN ABOUT CHINESE GODS

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the laws

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All of their inventions