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Lausl Montgomery here with the second episode of this brand new podcast, as if the history podcasting space wasn't crowded enough already.

Hey, don't forget to check out the China History Podcast if you haven't already.

It's definitely one of the best China history related

podcast shows out there or so I've been told. Let's pick up where we left off last

time. The Joe Dynasty when you're talking about ancient China.

Man, this is as ancient as it comes. There was maybe the Shia dynasty and for sure there was the

shung, but Chinese civilization, Chinese culture as we recognize it in our day.

This is where it all started. Joe Dynasty. Laudse, Confucius, Kings Wenen Wu, the Duke of Joe, Han Fezze, Mengze, Guang-Zun-Gong, Duke Huang of Chi, the first Emperor Chinshir Huang.

He was born during the last decades of the Eastern Joe during the warring states period.

The Shanghai Dynasty is famous for the oracle bones and the artifacts.

Dug out of the ruins of Yin, the Yin Shu outside of Anyang, in Hunan province,

right on the Yellow River, where it all began for Chinese Hua Shia civilization.

The Joe Dynasty saw the introduction of the three great religions of China,

Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

All three showed up on the scene roughly during the same time during the Eastern Joe and all three religions will embrace tea not

so much for the taste as much as for the health benefits, the rituals they will associate with its preparation

and consumption, and the ability to offer a nice pick me up when needed.

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