A Resource Guide for Students and Teachers - Bowers Museum
A Resource Guide for Students and Teachers - Bowers Museum A Resource Guide for Students and Teachers - Bowers Museum
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Daily Life in Ancient China Details of warriors and horses found in the tomb In ancient China there were two classes of people, the upper class and the lower class, and a hierarchy existed within each. The upper class consisted of the emperor and his family, government officials, scholars who were not rich but were respected for their knowledge, and the land-owning gentry who had land they could rent to others. Those in the upper class lived in wooden houses with a tiled roof. The emperor was the wealthiest of the upper class, and the rich ate well and wore silk. The skill of making silk was a secret kept by the Chinese for centuries. Both men and women wore robes with sashes and wealthy women wore silk slippers. The lower class consisted of soldiers, merchants, and peasants. Although generals were respected, soldiers were in the lower class because they were sent to fight and die. Merchants were looked down on because they sold things others had made. The peasants usually worked the gentry’s land and remained in poverty due to high taxes. The lower class lived in houses made of mud and straw. Few of the poor could read or write. They did not own their own land, and some families were so poor they sold their daughters to the rich as servants. Farmers did not keep the majority of their crops; the crops were used to feed others. The men wore baggy pants and a cotton shirt. All shoes were made of straw. The poor people’s diet included wheat noodles, rice, steamed bread or bean curd. Meat was rare. Workers performed most jobs by hand, spending long hours doing manual labor. The First Emperor forced his subjects into occupations which he chose. He felt the only productive occupations were agriculture and the military. A few individuals were needed as bureaucrats to carry out the management of these people. He felt that all other occupations such as merchants and intellectuals had no value in society. Qin did not believe in education for the common man because it would take time away from farming. If workers were too slow or tried to do something different, they were put to work on the great wall. 19
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