HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neolithic, Shangdi, Divine Right Of Kings
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History 250 lecture 3 archaeological origins. One origin story: the first man (named pangu) was in the yolk of duck egg. The yolk is yellow and people say chinese people are also yellow because of this. Pangu grew everyday until the egg broke. The white of the egg becomes the sky (yang) and the yolk becomes the yellow earth (yin) One of pangu"s eyes becomes the sun, the other becomes the moon. Each body part and fluid became a different part of the earth: still doesn"t answer how people began (pangu just appeared in the egg, dao: universal truth; universal way. Everything in the world can be divided into the yin/yang dichotomy. Another origin story (written about 900 bce: there was a woman named nuwa with a beautiful face and snake body. Left the cave and picked up clay and made the first human. The beginning of chinese history and archaeological records.
