Pear Garden

(noun)

The first known royal acting and musical academy in China, founded during the Tang dynasty by Emperor Xuanzong.

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Examples of Pear Garden in the following topics:

  • Culture Under the Song Dynasty

    • Theater and drama in China trace their roots back to the academy of music known as the Pear Garden, founded in the early 8th century during the Tang dynasty.

  • The Aztec People

    • They also implemented a raised bed gardening technique by layering mud and plant vegetation in the lake in order to create moist gardens.
    • However, each family generally had a garden where they could grow maize, fruits, herbs, and medicinal plants on a smaller scale.

  • The Akkadian Empire

    • Sargon claimed to be the son of La'ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.
    • Originally a cupbearer to king Ur-Zababa of Kish, Sargon became a gardener, which gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers who also may have served as his first soldiers.

  • Art and Culture Under the Nerva-Antonines

    • Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, albeit lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d'Este, who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d'Este.

  • Art and Patronage

    • In architecture, the Medici are responsible for some notable features of Florence; including the Uffizi Gallery, the Boboli Gardens, the Belvedere,the Medici Chapel and the Palazzo Medici.

  • Voltaire

    • But his disappointments and disillusions with Frederick the Great changed his philosophy and soon gave birth to one of his most enduring works, his novella Candide, or Optimism (1759), which ends with a new conclusion: "It is up to us to cultivate our garden."

  • Eruptions of Vesuvius and Pompeii

  • The USSR

    • ., "Coryphaeus of Science," "Father of Nations," "Brilliant Genius of Humanity," "Great Architect of Communism," "Gardener of Human Happiness," and others), and helped rewrite Soviet history to provide himself a more significant role in the revolution of 1917.

  • The Olmec

    • They also likely had gardens, in which the Olmec would grow medicinal herbs and small crops, like sunflowers.

  • Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    • The last Ming emperor, the Chongzhen Emperor, hanged himself on a tree in the imperial garden outside the Forbidden City.