In 1977 an extraordinary 2,500-year-old tomb was found near the city of Suzou in Hubei Province. The four-chamber structure contained the remains of a marquis and the largest cache of ancient musical instruments ever found along with 21 sacrificed women (perhaps wives, concubines, or musicians), chariots, and weapons. The musical instruments ...

Lengthy inscriptions found on some bronze vessels indicate the Zhou were not merely military-minded philistines as they have often been made out to be. Qu Yuan (340-277 B.C.), a poet from the Warring Staes Period, is regarded by some as the father of Chinese poetry. One of his most famous ...

Western Zhou 西周 (11th cent - 770 BC) Eastern Zhou 東周 (770-221 BC) -- Spring and Autumn Period 春秋時代 (770-475/452/403 BC) -- Warring States Period 戰國時代 (475/452/403-221 BC) The Zhou Dynasty is probably the dynasty that reigned for the longest period not only of all Chinese dynasties, but of the ...

Mathematics was already fairly advanced in the Zhou dynasty in1100 BC as imbedded in Yiching, The Book of Changes. This bookcan be found in most American bookstores. Besides Yiching, otherbooks of the Zhou period were impressive, including the  Bookof  Poems, the  Book of Learning,  the  Book of Li (Rules of ...