The Song Dynasty is considered by many to be classical China's high point in science and technology, with innovative scholar-officials such as Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) and Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ).

Outside Europe, the escapement mechanism had been known and used in medieval China, as the Song Dynasty horologist and engineer Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) incorporated it into his astronomical clock-tower of Kaifeng in 1088.

In the book of the Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, published in 1092 by the Chinese scientist Su Song, a star map on the equidistant cylindrical projection.

Although this method of charting seems to have existed in China even prior to this publication and scientist, the greatest significance of the star maps by Su Song is that they represent the oldest existent star maps in printed form.

Other early versions of mechanical devices used to perform one or another type of calculations include the planisphere and other mechanical computing devices invented by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( c. AD 1000 ); the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c. AD 1015 ); the astronomical analog computers of other medieval Muslim astronomers and engineers ; and the astronomical clock tower of Su Song ( c. AD 1090 ) during the Song Dynasty.

Su Song | Su Song's star maps represent the oldest existent ones in printing | printed form.

Shen's contemporary Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) was also a polymath and astronomer responsible for the creation of celestial atlas of star maps, as well for writing a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.

Su Song had erected a large astronomical clocktower in Kaifeng in 1088.

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This period also represents a high point in classical Chinese science and technology, with figures such as Su Song and Shen Kuo, as well as the age where the matured form of the Chinese pagoda was accomplished in Chinese architecture.

* 1077: Chinese official Su Song is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Liao Dynasty and discovers that the Khitan calendar is more mathematically accurate than the Song calendar ; Emperor Zhezong later sponsors Su Song's astronomical clock tower in order to compete with Liao astronomers.

* 1094: the astronomical clock tower of Kaifeng, China — engineered by the official Su Song — is completed.

* 1098: the Dongpo Academy of Hainan, China is built in honor of the Song Dynasty Chinese official and poet Su Shi, who was exiled there for criticizing reforms of the New Policies Group.

* Su Shi, famous Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter, travel writer, pharmacologist, and statesman

Some famous Communist Party names include Lenin ( Vladimir Il ' ich Ulyanov ); Stalin ( Yosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ); Trotsky ( Lev Davidovich Bronshtein ); Max ( Yakov Sverdlov ); Nahuel Moreno ( Hugo Miguel Bressano ) and Hua Guofeng ( Su Zhu ).

One of the prominent victims of the political rivalry, the famous poet and statesman Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), was jailed and eventually exiled for criticizing Wang's reforms.

One of the greatest literary critics of this was the official and famous poet Su Shi.

Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), a famous Song Dynasty poet and statesman.

The famous clock tower of the Su Song built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement with waterwheel scoops filled by clepsydra drip, and powered a crowning armillary sphere, a central celestial globe, and mechanically-operated manikins that would exit mechanically-opened doors of the clock tower at specific times to ring bells and gongs to announce the time, or to hold plaques announcing special times of the day.

These " lobbyists ," such as Su Qin ( who advocated vertical alliances ) and Zhang Yi ( who advocated horizontal alliances ), were famous for their tact and intellect, and were collectively known as the School of Diplomacy, whose Chinese name ( 縱橫家, literally ' the school of the vertical and horizontal ') was derived from the two opposing ideas.

It has been a tourist goal for more than a thousand years, and the site features inscriptions from famous poets and calligraphers like Su Shi and Dong Qichang.

Another well-known panoramic view is from Longshan ( Mt Long ), where the famous ancient poet Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ) once wrote a poem.

His brother Su Zhe () and his father Su Xun () were both famous literati.

The poem, To the tune of ' Of Jinling ' ( 江城子 ), remains one of the most famous poems Su wrote:

In his famous work of song poetry, Drinks at West Lake through Sunshine and Rain ( 飲湖上初睛居雨 ), renowned scholar Su Dongpo compared Xi Shi's beauty to the West Lake.

However, Sun Quan also thought that Lu Su was incompetent in managing diplomatic ties as compared to Zhang Yi and Su Qin, two famous strategists and diplomats in the Warring States Period.

One night in early 1075, about 10 years after her death, Su Shi dreamed of his wife, then composed this famous ci.

A few theories are provided why this rare geographical phenomenon happens Li Dao Yuan writes from the Northern Wei period ( 386-534 ), is due to the hill having a bell-shaped appearance and hollow inside, thus providing the sound when struck or water lapping within the limestone nooks and fissures around its base, as famous litterateur from the same time Su Shui discovered.

As written by Li Zhiyi, a man married to Hu Wenrou ( granddaughter of Hu Su, a famous minister of the Song Dynasty ), Shen Kuo was Li's mentor while Shen served as an official.

While Shen was appointed as the regional inspector of Zhejiang in 1073, the Emperor requested that Shen pay a visit to the famous poet Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), then an administrator in Hangzhou.

is an original Korean screenplay directed by the famous MBC Korean Director, Jang Su Bang, is now filming in Beijing, China.

Other very famous songs by Pupo include Gelato al cioccolato, Su di noi, Ciao and Firenze Santa Maria Novella.

Ermenegildo Zegna's website claims, " Ermenegildo Zegna's " Su Misura " service makes it possible to produce tailor-made suits, jackets, trousers, coats, shirts, ties in just a few weeks, respecting the clients size and needs, and maintaining the standards of quality for which Zegna is rightfully famous.

In particular, the West Dike is a recreation of the famous Su Di Dike on the West Lake in Hangzhou.

* Painting by Chi Un-Yeong ( 1853 – 1936 ) of the famous 11th-century Chinese scholar-poet Su Dong-Po

The first reference to card games in world history dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the " leaf game " in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess ' husband.

* 1037 – Birth of the Chinese poet Su Shi, one of the renowned poets of the Song Dynasty, who also penned works of travel literature.

* Su Dingfang, a general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty who succeeded in destroying the Western Turkic Khaganate

* Li Su, general under the Tang Dynasty

* Huai Su, Buddhist monk and Tang Dynasty calligrapher ( b. 737 )

* Song Dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.

* As recorded in the Song Shi, the Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Yan Su reinvents the 3rd-century South Pointing Chariot, a mechanical-driven compass vehicle.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese scientist and statesman Su Song publishes his Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, a treatise outlining the construction and operation of his complex astronomical clocktower built in Kaifeng, China.

* Su Jun, general of the Jin Dynasty

Gansu is a compound name first used in Song Dynasty China, of two Sui and Tang Dynasty prefectures ( 州 ): Gan ( around Zhangye ) and Su ( around Jiuquan ).

The Song Dynasty was also a period of great scientific literature, and saw the creation of works such as Su Song's Xin Yixiang Fayao and Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays.

Playing Children, by Song Dynasty Chinese art ist Su Hanchen, c. 1150 AD.

However, great exponents of the form, such as the Southern Tang poet Li Houzhu and the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi, used the ci form to address a wide range of topics.

12th century painting by Su Hanchen ; a girl waves a peacock feather banner like the one used in Song Dynasty dramatical theater to signal an acting leader of troops

Su Shi (​) ( January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101 ), was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era.