A pleading letter from a palace servant, Liu, to King Huan, his ruler and king of the Zhou Dynasty, 700 B.C. My Lord, I know that I am simply a humble palace servant. There are thousands of us.

The Zhou Dynasty developed the practice of inscribing vessels, and such vessels are highly prized. The inscriptions were meant to communicate the owners' political and social achievements to their ...

Development stages Before the Qin Dynasty (221-207BC), traditional values from the Zhou Dynasty gradually ... A galaxy of philosophers with noticeable achievements like Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu ...