HIS280Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Cosmopolitanism, Decimal Mark, Calender
Document Summary
Aesthetics and science in the medieval period: calligraphy. Viewed as an expression of self, symbolic and meaningful. South- aristocratic men writes regulated verses on the life of the one percent. Song of mulan- a ballad from the north. Northern chinese figure, undergoes a transformation to take her father"s place in war. Xiao3 shuo1= petty talk but more like stories. Often in large collections and more like the foreigners a new form of writing. Recluses- seven worthies of the bamboo grove. Medieval time people put in their own names on their creations. Used counting sticks, not a abacus to calculate pi to the seventh decimal point. Socioeconomic life in the medieval multi state period. Paper created around 600s are common use of paper: cosmopolitanism and urban life. Northern and southern cities, many semi public buddhist temples, important part of the city. Northerners see themselves as defenders left in the land. Southerners see themselves as nogstalgic migrants and the continued chinese lineages.
