Zackery Powell Global studies 1 9/22/01 The specific connection between nature and the Chinese cardinal directions is that the north symbolizes winter, water, and tortoise. The south symbolizes summer, fire, and bird. The east symbolizes spring, wood, and dragon. The west symbolizes fall, metal, and tiger. The center symbolizes man, earth and all seasons. Each has specific colors, north black, south- red East- green, west-white, and center-yellow.
Population density-means the number of people per square mile or per square kilometer. China has a population density of about 95% in 45% of the land. Its special significance to contempery china is that people are living in over crowded and poor living conditions.
The difference between a commercial city and a royal city is a royal city contains the capital and the ruler. It was laid out in a square grid. The center contained the palace. The north the market place, south the sacred place.
English: Yin & Yang
Yin Yang Gua
Deutsch: Yin YangThe ruler entered from the south and the officials entered from the east and west. The north resenting winter, south-summer, east-spring, west-fall. Royal cities were calm and quiet. A commercial city was made up of merchants, skilled workers, and businesses. Here life was about profit and enjoyment of life.
The feeling about life as expressed by a 2nd century Chinese city dweller is the city walls enclosed an area of some 30 miles, with about 1million people living inside the walls. The gates closed at sunset and were opened at sunrise. Rooms open into beautiful courtyards and gardens. Footpaths, drainage ditches, fruit trees lined the streets. Traffic along these paths became nonexistent after nightfall. When the gates were closed most everyone returned to the privacy of there homes.
The various appeals of the Chinese countryside as told by a 23 year old the roads were lined with...