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Bellringer February 8, 2011

Chapter 7, Section 2:Life in Ancient China

February 8, 2011

Today, we will be learning about life in Ancient

China.

Objective

*A social class includes people who share a similar position in society.

*Chinese society had 3 main SC: aristocrats, farmers, & merchants

Life in Ancient China

Aristocrats grew rich from farmers who grew crops on the land the aristocrats owned.

Life in Ancient China

Most Chinese people were farmers.

Farmers paid aristocrats with part of their crops.

Life in Ancient ChinaLandowning

aristocrats

Farmers

Merchants

Merchants were in the lowest class.

They grew rich but were still looked down on by aristocrats & farmers.

*Merchants included shopkeepers, traders, & bankers.

Life in Ancient China

Chinese families were large, and children were expected to work on farms.

*The family was the basic building block of Chinese society.

Life in Ancient China

*Filial piety means children had to respect parents and elders.

*Roles in China: Head of the family was most important.

Life in Ancient China

Men were considered more important than women in Chinese society.

*Men went to school, ran the gov’t, & fought wars.

*Women raised children & managed their households.

Life in Ancient China

Three major theories were developed to reinstate peace after the Period of the Warring States.

Chinese Thinkers

*Confucius was a great thinker & teacher.

*He believed that people needed a sense of duty to be good.

Chinese Thinkers

*Do unto others as you would have others do unto you – the Golden Rule.

*Confucianism taught that all men w/a talent for gov’t should take part in gov’t.

Chinese Thinkers

*Daoism teachers that people should give up worldly desires & encourages that importance of nature.

*Daoism was created by the scholar & teacher Laozi.

Chinese Thinkers

*The ideas of Daoism are written in Dao De Jing (The Way of the Dao).

*Legalism is the belief that society needs a system of harsh laws & punishments.

Chinese Thinkers

*The scholar Hanfeizi developed Legalism.

Chinese Thinkers