Qin Shihuang

(noun)

The self-proclaimed first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty.

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  • Sculpture of the Qin Dynasty

    • The Qin Dynasty is perhaps best known for the impressive Terracotta Army built to protect Qin Shihuang in the afterlife.
    • The Qin Dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 206 BCE.
    • The Qin, under the leadership of its first self-proclaimed emperor Qin Shihuang, accomplished a series of swift conquests, first ending the powerless Zhou Dynasty and eventually destroying the remaining six of the major states, thus gaining control over the whole of China and resulting in the first-ever unified China.
    • The most famous example of sculpture under the Qin Dynasty was a project commissioned during Qin Shihuang's rule known as the Terracotta Army, intended to protect the emperor after his death.
    • The "army" of sculptures consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terracotta figures of warriors and horses that were buried with Qin Shihuang after his death in 210–209 BCE.

  • Architecture of the Qin Dynasty

    • The Qin Dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 206 BCE.
    • Architecture from the previous Warring States Period had several definitive aspects which carried into the Qin Dynasty.
    • The Qin central government sought to minimize the role of aristocrats and landowners and have direct administrative control over the peasantry, who comprised the overwhelming majority of the population and granted the Qin access to a large labor force.
    • Qin Shihuang, the first self-proclaimed emperor of the Qin Dynasty, developed plans to fortify his northern border in order to protect against the nomadic Mongols.
    • The initial construction of what would become the Great Wall of China began under Qin Shihuang during the Qin Dynasty.

  • The Qin Dynasty

    • The Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE), though short-lived, is known for its military strength and its unification of China.
    • The Qin Dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of China, lasting only 15 years from 221 to 206 BCE.
    • Qin Shihuang, the self-proclaimed first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, made vast improvements to the military, which used the most advanced weaponry of its time.
    • When Qin Shihuang died in 210 BCE, his son was placed on the throne by two of the previous emperor's advisers, who attempted to influence and control the administration of the entire dynasty through him.
    • The colored territories show the approximate extent of Qin political control at the death of Qin Shi Huang in 210 BCE.

  • Literature of the Qin Dynasty

    • As a result, coaches, roads, currency, laws, weights, measures, and writing were systematically unified under the Qin.
    • In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang, the first Qin emperor, conquered all of the Chinese states and governed with a single philosophy known as legalism.
    • This decree, passed in 213 BCE, almost single-handedly gave the Qin Dynasty a bad reputation among later scholars.
    • Qin Shihuang, in an attempt to consolidate power, ordered the burning of all books on non-legalist philosophical viewpoints and intellectual subjects.
    • In 213 BCE, Qin Shihuang, attempting to consolidate power, ordered the burning of all books on non-legalist philosophical viewpoints and intellectual subjects.

  • The Qin Dynasty

    • The Qin Dynasty saw rich cultural and technological innovation, but brutal rule, and gave way to the Han Dynasty after only 15 years.
    • When the Qin state emerged victorious from the Warring States period in 221 BCE, the state's leader, King Zheng, claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Qin Dynasty.
    • Today he is known as Qin Shi Huang, meaning First Qin Emperor.
    • Another of Qin Shi Huang's most impressive building projects was the preparation he made for his own death.
    • In 207 BCE, Qin Shi Huang's son was killed, and the dynasty collapsed entirely.

  • The Warring States Period

    • The Warring States period saw technological and philosophical development, and the emergence of the Qin Dynasty.
    • The Rise of the Qin State and Resolution of the Warring States Period
    • Though the military rivalries and alliances in the Warring States period were complex and constantly in flux, over time the Qin state, under the leadership of King Zheng, emerged as the most powerful.
    • The Qin were particularly strongly rooted in Legalist philosophy, which advocated the importance of the state at the expense of the individual.
    • Ultimately, in 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered the others and established the Qin Dynasty.

  • Individualist Painting under the Qing Dynasty

    • Reminiscences of Qin-Huai is one of Shitao's unique paintings.
    • A monk stands placidly on a boat that floats along the Qin-Huai river, staring up in admiration at the stone giant.
    • Like many of the paintings from the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Shitao's Reminiscences of Qin-Huai deals with man's place in nature.

  • The Rise of the Han Dynasty

    • By the time the Qin Dynasty collapsed in 207 BCE, eighteen separate kingdoms had declared their independence.
    • In many ways, the Han carried on policies that began in the Qin.
    • Confucianism was banned during the Qin, but resurrected during the Han.
    • The Qin, with its focus on the power of the state, was not shaped by religion in the same way the Han was.
    • Compare the Han Dynasty with the earlier Qin Dynasty, and explain the Western Han period

  • The Eastern Zhou Period

    • The period from 685-591 BCE was called The Five Hegemons, and featured, in order, the Hegemony of Qi, Song, Jin, Qin, and Chu.
    • By the end of 5th century BCE, the feudal system was consolidated into seven prominent and powerful states—Han, Wei, Zhao, Yue, Chu, Qi, and Qin—and China entered the Warring States period, when each state vied for complete control.
    • This period, in the second half of the Eastern Zhou, lasted from about 475-221 BCE, when China was united under the Qin Dynasty.
    • After a series of wars among these powerful states, King Zhao of Qin defeated King Nan of Zhou and conquered West Zhou in 256 BCE; his grandson, King Zhuangxiang of Qin, conquered East Zhou, bringing the Zhou Dynasty to an end.
    • Qin has expanded southwest, Chu north and Zhao northwest.

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