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Posted on 12/15/2011 9:41:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Chinese archaeologists recently found a palace dating back to about 3,600 years ago at the Erlitou Bronze Age site in Henan province.
It is the best-preserved palace ever found at the site and may be the prototype for places of worship during the Shang dynasty.
In the Erlitou site's palace area, archaeologists found the rammed-earth foundation of the palace, which has at least three courtyards and covers a total area of more than 2,100 square meters.
The Erlitou site contains cultural relics ranging from the Yangshao and Longshan cultures about 5,000 years ago to the Eastern Zhou and Eastern Han dynasties. The site had its heyday during the Xia dynasty from the 21st to 17th century BC, and the culture created during this period is known as the "Erlitou Culture."
"The Erlitou palace complex is an amazing discovery, and is the earliest imperial palace in China," said Xu Hong, head of the archaeological team at the Erlitou site and director of the Department of the Xia-Shang-Zhou Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The palace complex covers a total area of nearly 110,000 square meters and is the oldest of its kind in China.
"Built about 3,700 years ago, the neatly designed palace complex, along with surrounding buildings, forms the center of the ancient capital. Although it is only one-seventh the size of the Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Erlitou palace complex is the prototype of all later imperial palaces in China," Xu said.
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Where was it? In the attic or hall closet?
a reconstruction from the Henan Provincial Museum: Xia Palace, Erlitou
The Bang-Shang-A-Lang Palace?....................
The Chinese SWORE that their "woman" gymnast, He Kexin, who won the gold ribbon at the last Olympics WAS indeed 16 years old...A LIE. She was 14, 4'8" and 72 lbs. This was NOT a small lie.
"What began as whispers among the media and gymnastics insiders weeks ago about the ages of three of China's female Olympic gymnasts -- Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and He Kexin -- has grown into ear-shattering, head-hurting shouts. Despite assurances by Chinese officials that all three are 16, the minimum age of eligibility for Olympic competition, newly discovered documents and records prove otherwise.
The New York Times first looked into the age of China's gymnasts with a story on July 27 that focused primarily on He Kexin, whose birthdate on numerous online records was listed as January 1, 1994, making her 14 when the Games began and ineligible to compete."
Huffington Post
I neither believe or trust them on any issue. Why would I?
I neither believe or trust your opinion on this or anything else.
Fascinating.
Love it.
They are certainly an ancient culture and very proud of it.
I’m glad so much survived the hideous ‘cultural revolution’
. . . however . . .
Americans need to realize a worse ‘cultural revolution’
is headed for the whole globe . . .
And they were IMPORTING THINGS to the NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT...One of the things they found was files on the trade....and yes...they were EXPORTING products all over.
They also found 100,000 ballots for Obama for the 2012 election.
Chinese invented gunpowder, silk, paper, waterclocks, small feet, the copy machine, rockets and palaces.
Props to Bejing Daily for using BC, when whackjobs in this country are trying to eradicate in the name of “tolerance”.
That would be EXPORTING THINGS to the NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
A country EXports TO other countries and IMports FROM other countries. EX = OUT. IM = IN.
Oops...I goofed. I should’ve checkedit before I sent it. I knew it was EXPORT not IMPORT.
Thanks, here’s an article of interest from that same site,
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7673763.html
Chinese character for ‘micro’ named word of year
By Wang Lianwei, Sun Liji (People’s Daily Overseas Edition)
16:13, December 12, 2011
Edited and translated by Han Shasha, People’s Daily Online
The result of the annual Cross-Strait Word of the Year competition was announced in Taipei on Dec. 9. The Chinese character “Wei,” which means “micro” or “small,” was named the 2011 word of the year, with 10 percent of the total 4.4 million votes.
... important to both sides of the Taiwan Strait in 2011 was reflected in some tiny details and minor issues, and micro-blogging was also extremely popular on both sides in 2011.
Thanks!
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