ANCIENT AND MODERN CHINA

ANCIENT CHINA’S EVERYDAY LIFE LIKE

• Life differs
• Grew up in villages
• Lived in villages
• People work in fields
• Woman stay home to take care of family

MODERN CHINA’S EVERYDAY LIFE LIKE

• Crowded streets and cities
• Live in small crowded homes

ANCIENT CHINA’S SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• Hierarchy
• Born into lifestyle
• Top of the hierarchy is the King
• Bottom is the Shang Class

MODERN SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• The head honchos
• President
• Bigwigs/ministers
• The power brokers provincial level minister
• The privileged country level party heads
• The underclass peasant

ANCIENT CHINA’S MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, DANCE, FOOD, TRADITIONS, AND ART

• Solo or in small groups
• Musical instruments
• Rice wheat, millet,beans,turnips,onions,pork,chicken and duck
• Calligraphy, poetry, paintings, folk toys
• Timber wood to create things
• The lion dance
• The dragon dance
• Giving presents

MODERN CHINA MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, ART, DANCE, TRADITIONS, ETC.

• Main food is rice
• Great Wall of China
• The Dragon Dance
• Traditional song including Chuigushou Suona
• Temples

ANCIENT CHINA’S HOLIDAY’S AND CELEBRATIONS

• Chinese new year
• Lantern festival
• National Day

MODERN CHINA’S HOLIDAYS/CELEBRATIONS

• Blue Dragon festival
• Lantern Festival
• Chinese New Year

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