The Story of China — S01E01 — Ancestors

00:00:20 China is the oldest nation on earth.

00:02:48 It's a great time to be looking at the events which have shaped

00:05:57 To tell them how the family is doing

00:09:04 I'm going to regret this.

00:11:16 Fuxi, the male god, and Nuwa, the female god.

00:14:11 and claimed the right to rule the hundreds of tribes

00:17:39 and a huge walled enclosure.

00:20:22 And it began by chance in one of those storehouses of age-old

00:22:44 There is something so optimistic about their faces.

00:24:50 living in the Yellow River plain, I suppose.

00:26:52 This is not like the shopping malls of Shanghai, that's for sure.

00:28:53 and their rituals and their journeys.

00:31:08 killed as offerings to the powers of nature,

00:33:38 'The tribes who lived under the Shang tyranny saw the sign

00:35:41 the "seekers after the Way",

00:38:48 sacking cities and enslaving their populations.

00:40:58 China divided into many small states that were always

00:42:58 It's his sayings,

00:45:11 An active reverence for the old master

00:47:34 bound society together and the overruling power of education.

00:50:07 There was to be a uniform coinage.

00:52:32 No, he's a normal soldier.

00:55:34 that China, a land of so many peoples and cultures,

00:58:21 one of the greatest epochs in world civilisation, the Tang Dynasty.