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Ancient Chinese Contributions

Ancient Chinese Contributions

Introduction

The Chinese culture and history for thousands of years determined by the 3 traditions: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. China's religious traditions are based on two basic principles: the Cosmos, a holy place and all its components are interconnected. The central goal of the Chinese religion is to preserve the sanctity by the harmony between people and between people and nature preserve. This is reflected in the traditions of Taoism and Confucianism

and also in popular belief. Buddhism came over from India, applied also to the Chinese vision.

The main spiritual traditions express in different ways the ideal of cosmic harmony. Confucianism is based on the teachings of a philosopher from the 6th century BC. Master Kong (Kong Fuzi, Confucius in the West referred to) (Latourette,Scott,1964).

Contribution of Ancient Chinese Culture

Astronomy, geography

The ancients said that day the Analects to ancients and the sky and all things origin Sky record: eclipse Meteor nova and supernova comets five-star Pente sunspot stone inscriptions record calendar achievements: rule calendar method solar terms and Western was in the beginning calendar "large Ming Li," "Big Yan Li," "grant calendar "astronomical instruments: the sundial sundial Water Clock armillary sphere armillary sphere seismograph instrument was fully assembled Jane Miriam Yang instrument waterway instrument tower famous astronomer:

Gander falling Hong Zhang Heng Zu Chong of Zhang Sui (Monk and his party) GuoShouJing works of Shen Kuo astronomy:" Gan and Shi by "" Spirit of the Constitution, "the famous geographers: PEI Xiu Li Tao Yuan Xu Wei Yuan geography achievement: mapping six wind of observation and instrument observations of precipitation and humidity instrument observations and instrument cloud observations and cloud atlas "Waterways" "Xu Travels Haiguo." (Taipei,1973).

Ancient Mathematics

Achievements: the writings of the pioneering operator to raise the earliest use of the abacus use of decimal fractions and decimals ninety-nine table the use of negative numbers pi calculation of binary thinking: Zhou Bi Suan island count of the "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" by the "grandson counted by mathematician: Liu Hui Zhang Heng Zu

Ancient military

Military thinking: the invention of the Tragic Hero the Sima law Sun Bin, Sun Tzu Art of War Wei Liao Zi Wu Zijun things: the invention of the stirrup of the ancient chariot, and spread the ancient Chinese rockets gunpowder, fire-breathing device of the invention of the crossbow and circulation figures: soldiers St. Sun Wu national hero Yue Fei, Zhuge Liang.

Traditional Chinese medicine

The basis of diagnostic methods of ...