Brief run-through how life during Qin Dynasty...
Due to 秦始皇's suspicious character, he made many many rules until it was so inflexible & almost doing anything & everything was against the law. But he had his achievements. Great wall, Canals for irrigation and Burning of books... haha... If he did not burn all the books, maybe today we will have alot of different Chinese characters with the same pronunciation and meaning. After burning all the books, 刘邦 as a Han promoted Han characters that formed the current Chinese characters.
As for the portion of Han Dynasty, I feel it was rather detail. But concentrated in the unstability of the government after the Emperor passed away, achievements of 汉武帝，汉光武帝, the rise of 东汉（Eastern Han) and the death of 韩信...
Achievements in Han Dynasty: (my personal opinon)
- Silk Road
- Making of Paper
- First Female Leader （Lu 后)
- Peace with the borders (this is the part where 王昭君 comes into play)
- A strong foundation for Chinese culture
- Technology advancement in Engineering (Mechanical), Flood control and Irrigation
- Buddhism influence in China
Below is the historic listings for the leaders in Qin &Han Dynasty:
After reading... I seriously feel that once human is powered with authority, fame and wealth. They will just go mad and start to do things in a reckless way. What makes thing worse, if is the government that do things recklessly (子乐: 苛政猛于虎 ). Lesson learnt, government that starts not to listen to their people will start to fail in their politics career. But maybe before that happened, there needs to have alot blood shed before the actual peace comes... Because 子乐: 国民好比是舟, 百姓好比是水, 水能载舟, 也能覆舟.
Really admired Confusious... How he manage to think of such things... Still applicable after a few thousands of years... haha...
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