Many foreign students in summer program in China are interested in the Chinese history and they often talk about different time periods in Chinese history. Today they talked about the Western Zhou Dynasty in the course of Chinese history. They talked about different aspects of the dynasty. Let’s see what they have talked about the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Many foreign students know that the time period of Western Zhou Dynasty was about from 11 century B.C. to year 221 B.C. After the King Wu of Zhou conquered Shang Dynasty, he established the dynasty of Western Zhou and set the capital in Haojing which was located in south part in Xi’an city of Shanxi Province in modern China. The Western Zhou Dynasty was conquered by the first emperor of Qin Dynasty. The Western Zhou Dynasty witnessed thirty four emperors in all and the duration of the dynasty was more than eight hundred years.

Zhou was a vassal state of Shang Dynasty which ranged from 17 century B.C to 11 century B.C. The legend said that Zhou was the descendant of Emperor Ku and the state was the most powerful during King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou. In the war in Muye, the Shang Dynasty was conquered and the Zhou Dynasty was founded. In the modern times, the time period was called the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Many foreign students are interested in the culture of the dynasty when they learn Chinese online free. They know that the agriculture, economy, religion, education and art are all developing rapidly in the time period of Western Zhou Dynasty. The etiquette in Western Zhou Dynasty was developing fastest. The governors in Western Zhou Dynasty warned the people not to drink wine at will. From many books, the forbidding of wine was in written form. In the sacrificial vessels made of bronze, many drinking vessels commonly seen in Shang had disappeared in Western Zhou Dynasty.

The method to practice divination with oracle bones was still popular in Western Zhou Dynasty. The relics of the oracle bones in Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty revealed that the method to practice divination had some connection. The late part of Western Zhou Dynasty witnessed the gradual inner conflicts of the ruling party. The fight for land and political power accelerated the perishing of Western Zhou Dynasty. In year Western Zhou Dynasty 771B.C, Western Zhou Dynasty perished.