In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

During the Song Dynasty, the scholar Zhu Xi ( AD 1130 – 1200 ) added ideas from Daoism and Buddhism into Confucianism.

During the Chinese Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), not only landscape art was improved upon, but portrait painting became more standardized and sophisticated than before ( for example, refer to Emperor Huizong of Song ), and reached its classical age maturity during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ).

Court painters made new versions of the Song Dynasty masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor.

During the Song Dynasty ( AD 960 – 1279 ) Shanghai was upgraded in status from a village to a market town in 1074, and in 1172 a second sea wall was built to stabilize the ocean coastline, supplementing an earlier dyke.

During the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucians regarded Dao as the purest thing-in-itself.

During the Song Dynasty, similar stories circulated as the contents of prompt-books for storytellers.

During the Song Dynasty, there was large scale maritime trade from China reaching as far as the Arabian peninsula and East Africa.

During the Song and earlier periods, barge ships occasionally crashed and wrecked along the Shanyang Yundao section of the Grand Canal while passing the double slipways, and more often than not those were then robbed of the tax grain by local bandits.

During the Song Dynasty in the late 1st millennium AD, these six works were combined with a Tang Dynasty text into a collection called the Seven Military Classics.

During the Northern Song (, 960 – 1127 ), the Song capital was in the northern city of Bianjing ( now Kaifeng ) and the dynasty controlled most of inner China.

During this time, the Song court retreated south of the Yangtze River and established their capital at Lin ' an ( now Hangzhou ).

During these battles the Song navy employed swift paddle wheel driven naval vessels armed with trebuchet catapults aboard the decks that launched gunpowder bombs.

Junk ( ship ) | Chinese boats from Zhang Zeduan's ( 1085 – 1145 ) painting Along the River During Qingming Festival ; Chinese ships of the Song period featured Hull ( watercraft ) | hulls with Bulkhead ( partition ) | watertight compartments.

During the Song Dynasty, the Emperor's power was significantly overshadowed by the power of the chancellor.

During the Song dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), landscapes of more subtle expression appeared ; immeasurable distances were conveyed through the use of blurred outlines, mountain contours disappearing into the mist, and impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena.

During the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1127 ), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of hot contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty.

During the Lý Dynasty, the Chinese Song Dynasty officially recognized the Đại Việt monarch as King of Giao Chỉ ( Giao Chỉ Quận Vương ).

During the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960-1127 ), the sixteen ceded prefectures continued to be an area of contention between Song China and the Liao Dynasty.

During the next two years an author, Miller from the town where Larry first performed this, wrote a book called " The Singer " and another book called " The Song.

During the Warring States Period and the early Han Dynasty, China grew greatly and the need arose for a solid and centralized cadre of government officers able to read and write administrative papers.

During the Han Dynasty, Confucianism developed from an ethical system into a political ideology used to legitimize the rule of the political elites.

During the Qing Dynasty many philosophers objected against Neo-Confucianism and there was a return to the Han Dynasty Confucianism, and also the reprise of the controversy between Old Text and New Text.

During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle bestowed the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the first of the three Princes of Dharma, upon the Black-Hat Karmapa.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) between the 7th and 9th century AD, wood blocks were cut to print on textiles and later to reproduce Buddhist texts.

During the social and cultural climate of the ancient Eastern Jin Dynasty ( 316-420 AD ) based at Nanjing in the south, painting became one of the official pastimes of Confucian-taught bureaucratic officials and aristocrats ( along with music played by the guqin zither, writing fanciful calligraphy, and writing and reciting of poetry ).

During the late 13th century and first half of the 14th century, Chinese under the Mongol-controlled Yuan Dynasty were not allowed to enter higher posts of government ( reserved for Mongols or other ethnic groups from Central Asia ), and the Imperial examination was ceased for the time being.

During the Ming Dynasty there were also different and rivaling schools of art associated with painting, such as the Wu School and the Zhe School.

During the early 16th century, the Sayfawa Dynasty solidified its hold on the Bornu population after much rebellion.

During the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bing claimed to have located a copy of the originals of the Suwen, which he expanded and edited substantially.

During the Tang Dynasty a small parrot ventures out to search for its mother's favourite food upon which it is captured by a poacher ( parrots were quite popular during the Tang Dynasty ).

During the reign of the Kalhora Dynasty, the present city started life as a fishing settlement when a Sindhi Balochi fisher-woman called Mai Kolachi took up residence and started a family.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ), the region came under the jurisdiction of Panyu County, Nanhai Prefecture of the province of Guangdong.

* 762 – During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.

During the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), characters from popular novels such as the Water Margin were widely featured on the faces of playing cards.

During the Ming Dynasty ( AD 1368 – 1644 ), the Chinese were very concerned with city planning in regards to gunpowder warfare.

During the 15th century, China's Ming Dynasty assembled one of the largest and most powerful naval fleet in the world for the diplomatic and power projection voyages of Zheng He.

During this survey, the deepest part of the trench was recorded when the Challenger II measured a depth of 5, 960 fathoms ( 10, 900 m, 35, 760 ft ) at, known as the Challenger Deep.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( AD 907 – 960 ), a book called the Records of the Unworldly and the Strange written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated:

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 AD ), the city was a seaport open to foreign trade.

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), artistry and production had reached new heights.

During the Sung period ( 960 – 1279 AD ), the establishment of China's first official standing navy in 1132 AD and the enormous increase in maritime trade abroad ( from Heian Japan to Fatimid Egypt ) allowed the shipbuilding industry in provinces like Fujian to thrive as never before.

During the Northern Song ( 960 – 1126 CE ), a new class of scholar-artists emerged who did not possess the tromp l ' oiel skills of the academy painters nor even the proficiency of common marketplace painters.

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) noodle shops were very popular in the cities, and remained open all night.

During the Song ( Sung ) dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), Neo-Confucianism — an interpretation of classical Confucian doctrine that addressed Buddhist and Daoist issues fourished.

During the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) of China, educated gentry were interested in antiquarian pursuits of art collecting while Neo-Confucian scholar-officials were concerned with archaeological pursuits in order to revive the use of ancient relics in state rituals.

During his age, the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) era historical text of the Song Shi mentions Yi Xing and the reason why his armillary sphere did not survive the ages after the Tang Dynasty ( Wade-Giles spelling ):

During the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), the scrolls became well suited to the art styles of the artists, consequently hanging scrolls were made in many different sizes and proportions.

During the Thirty Years ' War, the town was badly damaged and the population fell from 2200 to 960.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 CE ) and Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 CE ) the south-pointing chariot was combined with another mechanical wheeled vehicle, the distance-measuring odometer.

During 2003 / 2004 operational costs totalled £ 11, 960, 000:

During the Fall 2008 academic year, the State University System enrolled 301, 135 total students: 245, 960 undergraduates, and 55, 175 graduate and professional students.

During the early Song dynasty ( Chinese: 宋, 960 – 1279 ), China again reunited the currency system displacing coinages from ten or so independent states.