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everyday life in ancient china - Coggle Diagram
everyday life in ancient china
school
Schools throughout China were organized into three major stages and seven levels.
Elementary education was composed of kindergarten, lower elementary, and higher elementary
secondary education consisted of middle school
higher education was divided into preparatory school, specialized college, and university.
housing
The small private homes of the ancient Chinese were usually built from dried mud, rough stones, and wood
The most ancient houses are square, rectangular, or oval.
They had thatch roofs (e.g. of straw or reed bundles) supported by wooden poles, the foundation holes for which are often still visible.
food
The rich people of China ate very well
They ate grains like rice, wheat and millet. They also ate plenty of meat including pork, chicken, duck, goose and dog.
Vegetables included yams, soya beans, broad beans and turnip as well as spring onions and garlic.
clothing
People in ancient China wore tunics
Women wore long tunics, sometimes with a second tunic over the first
Some worn pants under their tunics
The men worn shorter tunics over pants
work
There were four major professions in ancient China
Those professions were scholars (which included doctors and warriors), farmers, artistians (artists and craftsmen), and merchants
Unlike most ancient cultures, farmers were not on the lowest level of the social scale