The Zhou dynasty c. 1046 – 256 BCE which is really long the Zhou dynasty almost lasted for almost 800 years!!! but exactly it was 790 years but it is still major big! The Zhou dynasty was a Chinese Dynasty that followed the Shang Dynasty and came before the Qin Dynasty. Although the Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history, the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty, lasted only until 771 BC, a period known as the Western Zhou!
This period of Chinese history produced what many consider the zenith of Chinese bronze-ware making. The dynasty also spans the period in which the written script evolved into its modern form with the use of an archaic clerical script that emerged during the late Warring States period. |
Cultural origins
Culture is different and same you can explore it and relate but with some its a different kind of explanation, each has there own style. The Zhou is known to have spoken more or less the same language as the Shang[c] and were their cultural successors.[7] At the same time, the Zhou may also have been connected to the Xirong, a broadly defined cultural group to the west of the Shang, which the Shang regarded as tributaries. According to the historian Li Feng, the term "Rong" during the Western Zhou period was likely used to designate political and military adversaries rather than cultural and ethnic 'others. In the Zhou dynasty there is times about the Western and Eastern Zhou, more Culture and Society, Military, Mandate of Heaven, Philosophy, Agriculture, and more like kings just scroll down on this link and Learn more!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_dynasty |
Also in the Zhou Dynasty there were myths that came to show here is the link to the page look down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_dynasty. ( This is the same link above next to Learn more! and the picture to the right)