Ch’in Shih Huang Ti is known as a tyrant and as a national hero. He is also known as the founder of China and he was the first emperor of China. Many people believed that he was a tyrant and I believe he is as well. First of all, he had very cruel punishments for the people that broke his laws. He had survived a few assassination attempts, but he is afraid of another. So Ch’in Shih Huang Ti traveled through 270 of his palaces so nobody knew where he would be. He never slept in the same room for two nights in a row. He made a law that whoever revealed his whereabouts would be put to death with his or her family. He made this law so nobody would spread his whereabouts. Spreading his whereabouts would make an assassin search for him.
This law is cruel because if someone spreaded where he was, that person’s whole family would have to be put to death. Additionally, Ch’in Shih Huang Ti also spent huge amounts of money. He spent a lot of money to build his death tomb. His tomb was known as his “spirit city.” It took 30 years to build his tomb, that’s as long as the Great Wall of China. He spent money to build over 6,000 soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses weren’t useless because these were used for his tomb. These soldiers and horses were known as his “spirit army.” Lots of money was also spent to build his 270 palaces throughout China. These palaces were places that he could stop and rest at while he traveled throughout China. However, some people think that Ch’in Shih Huang Ti is a national hero. They think he is a national hero because he defeated Qin’s six rival states. However, he eventually became obsessed with his own death. Ch’in Shih Huang Ti heard that there was an island with immortals living on it so he sent a fleet to find it. After a while of searching, the fleet never found the island. Since the fleet didn’t find the island, they knew that they would be put to death by the emperor. So the fleet simply never returned back to China. The emperor did eventually die while visiting the eastern provinces and he never learned the secret of immortality. In conclusion, these are the reasons of how Ch’in Shih Huang Ti is known as a tyrant. He had very cruel punishments and spent huge amounts of money for himself.
The founder of the Qin dynasty was Qin Shi Huangdi, a title meaning “First Emperor.” He was a brutal ruler, but he brought about many changes. However, in addition to all the new, some old ideas were continued from the Zhou, such as the emphasis on the wheat and rice staple foods, and the philosophies, Confucianism and Daoism. The old continuities tended to have been deeply embraced by China, and, just as the Zhou did, the Qin would create some ideas that lasted, and some that did not. Qin Shi Huangdi enforced a tough autocratic rule and, as a result, opposed formal culture that could make people counter his rule. This meant that he burned many books and attacked Confucian ideas in order to keep the people from generating rebellious ideas. When the Qin dynasty fell, so too did the opposition towards education, because it took away from the civilization culturally. Despite the fact that the Qin dynasty was very short and had little time to fully develop its systems and ideas, it did pump out a vast quantity of new and lasting concepts, such as the Great Wall and a central government. One of the biggest contenders for the most well-known feature of the Qin dynasty is the Great Wall. This architectural masterpiece extends over 3,000 miles, and was mainly a
Who doesn’t love celebrations? When we celebrate something it’s usually because the event influenced or impacted history in some way. In the case of Zheng He, I do believe we should commemorate his voyages. Zheng he did experience a bad child-hood; as he was involved in many devastating events like the death of his father, becoming a prisoner by the Ming dynasty and being forced to work for a royal family. Zheng didn’t let that bring him down and eventually became a trusted advisor and earned power and wealth. These actions lead to his first of 7 voyages. His voyages had successful outcomes and they also showed that great leadership skills were needed to complete these voyages. Therefore, I do believe we should memorialize the voyages of Zheng
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Huang outlines to reconstruction of the court under Wan-li came into power at the death of his father and the seemingly insignificant actions taken by the emperor, from his marriage to the redecorating of the court. Within the scope of this discourse, Huang is able to disclose the excesses of the emperor, and consider the implications of the bureaucratic system that he devised as an extension of this excess (13).
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Born in 1887, Chiang Kai-shek was the innate successor to Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang or Guomindang. Kai-shek would become an essential constituent of Chinese history in the 1900s. (Trueman)
Ruling a country effectively is executed through a variety of methods. Lao-Tzu, a follower of Taoism, expresses his belief on the most efficient way to govern. "The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self-reliant people will be" (25). This quote from Lao-Tzu can be interpreted many different ways.
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rules and laws that applied only to those who were peasants. The laws sort of boosted their lives; he kept the land tax low, and the granaries stocked to guard against famine. During his reign he also attempted and succeeded in building up the class of those of the peasant and working class. Hongwu’s new government did not cause any change for those in other social classes.
Once Upon a Time in China talks about the Chinese national hero Huang Feihong how to protect his family and country. Huang Feihong was born in Canton in the late Qing dynasty. At that time, China was bullied by the other western countries. Huang is the boss of Po Chi Lam and the coach of civil corps, he often teach people Kung-Fu and expect people could use it to protect themselves and country.