Sentence examples for Chou dynasty from inspiring English sources

From the beginning of the following (Chou) dynasty, the word year was etymologically identical with "harvest".

The first use of a postal system in China was under the Chou dynasty (c. 1111 255 bc).

During the Chou dynasty the civil year began with the new moon, which occurred before or on the day of the winter solstice.

She says soya did not become a staple human food until late in the Chou Dynasty in 1134 BC when the Chinese developed a fermentation process to turn the bean into a paste best know by its Japanese name miso.

Since good communications were clearly essential for governing the extensive empires of the ancient world, it is not surprising that among the earliest historical references to postal systems were those concerning Egypt about 2000 bc and China under the Chou dynasty 1,000 years later.

This may well be so, and some modern scholars have even surmised that the barbarian invasions of China that brought the Western Chou dynasty to an end in 771 bc may have been connected with a Scythian raid from the Altai that had occurred a generation or two before Scythian migration westward to the Ukraine.

The band allegedly had fled China in 1111 bc, refusing to serve the new Chou-dynasty ruler who had overthrown Kija's Shang-dynasty relatives.

C. 1200 BCE - c. 1101 BCE Zhougong, Wade-Giles romanization Chou-kung, English Duke of Zhou (flourished 11th century bce, China) major political figure who solidified the power of the Zhou dynasty (1046 256 bce) in its early years.

Chinese legendary history can be traced back to 2697 bc, the first year of Huang Ti (Chinese: Yellow Emperor), who was followed by many successors and by the three dynasties, the Hsia, the Shang, and the Chou.

Ms. Chou said in an interview that she would ask the Palace Museum in Beijing to lend 29 Qing dynasty artworks for a three-month exhibition that opens here in October and would seek cooperation in art conservation, publications and promotions.

Eunuchs functioned as political advisers to the emperors of China as early as the Chou period (c. 1122 221 bc) and continued as such under the Han, T'ang, Ming, and Sung dynasties, persisting almost until the end of the imperial regime.