Sung dynasty


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Noun1.Sung dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279Sung dynasty - the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
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A Sung dynasty printing plate dating back to 960-1127 AD.
Leaders from the preceding Sung Dynasty (A.D.960-1279) were unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without it being discovered.
It is actually an archeological site where pottery from the Sung Dynasty had been found.
Michael [Cardew] told me that he was a leading scholar of Sung dynasty pots.
Composer Marjorie Chan and librettist Alice Ho's take on a Sung dynasty Chinese fable marks the first time that a CCOC commission has veered away from the body of Western children's literature.
China claims that Scarborough Shoal, which it calls Huangyan Island, is the Nanhai island that the 13th century Chinese astronomer-engineer-mathematician Guo Shoujing supposedly visited in 1279 on the order of Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, to conduct a survey of the Four Seas to update the Sung Dynasty calendar system.
This was during the Sung dynasty (960-1279), which reunited China after a period of division and confusion.
During the Sung Dynasty (960-1279), most of the information was recorded in the Chu-fan-chih ("Gazetteer of Foreigners") and Ling-wai Taita ("Information from Beyond the Mountains").
According to Chinese scholars, Huangyan Island is the Nanhai island that the 13th century Chinese astronomer-engineer-mathematician Guo Shoujing allegedly visited in 1279 on order of Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, to conduct a survey of the Four Seas to update the Sung Dynasty calendar system.
Later he graduated to antique Cartier watches, Sung dynasty ceramics and art deco furniture.
Pierre Jalbert: "The Invention of the Saxophone." Stacy Garrop: Ars Poetica: "Introduction to Poetry," "Sonnet," "Vade Mecum," "Endangered." Vivian Fung: "Insomnia," "The Man in the Moon," "The Willies." Lita Grier: "Forgetfulness," "Dancing Towards Bethlehem." Zhou Tian: "Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty I Pause to Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles."
Their work is distinctly different from that of the previous Sung dynasty. Yuan pottery was more ostentatious, and blue and white porcelain became popular.