#17 - E. Zhou 6: Qin's Reformation And Ascension

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 9 April 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A brief synopsis of Tomb Sweeping Festival, it's traditions and expectations... then onto the state of Qin's early defeats at the hands of a combined Wei and Han. It's Qin's subsequent reforms at the hand of the Legalist Shang Yang,however, that are the real focus of this episode. Newly centralized and militarized, the now Kingdom of Qin begins it it's expansion, beginning with the independent realms of Sichuan. And for his efforts, Shang Yang will find himself pulled apart by chariots, and his family annihilated. Some thanks, indeed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Audible is the nation's leading seller and producer of spoken audio content. Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:37.6	Hello and welcome to the history of China. China. Episode 16, Sheen's Reformation and Ascendancy. Last time, we went over the splitting of the once hegemonic state of gene into three states,
0:59.4	Jao, Han, and Wei. This time we'll be going over the early states of the three genes
1:06.0	interactions with one another as separate entities before launching into the
1:10.0	real player of the warring-states period, Chin. Before that, though, a bit of an explanation.
1:17.0	I neglected last time to mention that I would be traveling to my wife's hometown for Chingming-gee, literally meaning pure brightness
1:25.6	holiday, but more accurately translated as All Souls Day or more popularly Tomb-sweeping Festival. It is observed on April 4th or 5th of the year.
1:36.1	And as the name implies, it is the annual event in which family from all over the country
1:41.0	are recalled to their ancestral homes in order to clean away overgrowth,
1:45.2	dust, dirt, and general disrepair from their family tombs.
1:50.0	These are, unlike flat Western cemeteries, overwhelmingly situated on the mountainsides, with many generations
1:56.4	ashes and or remains interred within.
2:00.4	Further, according to Chinese folk and Taoist beliefs, it is the time to make offerings and sacrifices to the venerated ancestors, including a ritual meal of their favorite foods, memorial candles burnt, incense, and prayer effigies of money burnt
2:16.3	for use in heaven.
2:18.3	I managed to take a few pictures of the goings-on for my own family and we'll be posting them on the history of China dot
2:24.6	WordPress.com in this episode's companion post. From a historical perspective
2:30.8	it was interesting that though the holiday traces its origin as far back as our current focus,
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