5.1

Confuscious (Kung Fu-Tzu) - c 551-479 bce

• filial peity and family responsibility
• Book of Documents (Analects)
• the "Great Learning"
• Mandate of Heaven (T'ien Ming)
• "ren" - right order

*jade is considered a material of confusciousism
*it has strong spiritual significance

The Sian warriors near the Western Border of China

• Qin Dynasty
• remind of the reasons for the Great wall being built
• invasions coming out of W and moving to the E of China
• T'ang Dynasty came later