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Climate of China
LOC data on the climate of China.

Yellow Emperor - Legendary Chinese Yellow Emperor 2698-2598 B.C.
Giles describes the Chinese Yellow Emperor as having "built a temple for the worship of God, in which incense was used, and first sacrificed to the Mountains and Rivers. He is also said to have established the worship of the sun, moon, and five planets, and to have elaborated the ceremonial of ancestral worship."

Chopsticks - Chinese Kuaizi Chopsticks
The Chinese invented chopsticks and were using them by at least the Zhou Dynasty.

Peking Man
Peking Man is a homo erectus who was known as Sinanthropus pekinensis.

Herbert Giles - Buddhism and Other Religions of Ancient China
So early as the third century B.C., Buddhism seems to have appeared in China, though it was not until the latter part of the first century A.D. that a regular propaganda was established, and not until a century or two later still that this religion began to take a firm hold of the Chinese people.

Oracle Bones
Chinese oracle bones are evidence of ancien Chinese writing.

Giles, Herbert Giles
Herbert Giles was a British diplomat to China and linguist who modified the Chinese transliteration system of Thomas Wade into what is called the Wade-Giles transliteration system.

China - The Historical Setting
The history of China from the Library of Congress, as documented in ancient writings, dates back some 3,300 years.

Maps of Ancient China
Maps of Ancient China.

Religions of Ancient China
Herbert A. Giles describes Confucianism in Ancient China.

Chinese History
About's Chinese Culture Guide, Jun Shan, annotates links about Chinese History. Many of the sites are at least partly in Chinese.

Ancient Rice Wine Found in West China
"About five kilograms of light green rice wine were found in the western China city of Xi'an Friday afternoon when Chinese archaeologists unearthed a bronze wine jar shaped like a phoenix head. The wine, which was believed to date to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24 AD), was the best-preserved and largest quantity ever found."

Cross Cultural Timeline
From The History Channel, this graphic timeline shows what was happening in America, Europe, Middle East, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and Africa for 500 years starting in 500 BC.

History of China
History of China to the present. Sites relevant to Ancient History include Historical Setting, Imperial Dynasties, and Ancient Dynasties. Links to timeline and map.

Oracle Bones
Oracle bones hold some of the oldest extant writing from China. They were used for divination. The pieces described were used during the Shang dynasty (c. 1300 B.C.).

Story of the Hakkas
Lee M. Lock discusses migrations of Hakka or guest people to China and eyebrows as clues to the origins of modern Chinese.