yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

These twin tendencies seem to have reached their height in the Han dynasty.

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

This is due to the rich historical record of astronomical phenomena which, in China, stretches back into the Han dynasty, in the second century BC.

In AD 9, the usurper Wang Mang claimed that the Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han dynasty and the rise of his own, and he founded the short-lived Xin (" New ") Dynasty.

Confucianism " largely defined the mainstream discourse on gender in China from the Han dynasty onward ," and its strict, obligatory gender roles as a cornerstone of family, and thus, societal stability, continue to shape social life throughout East Asia.

During the Han dynasty period, the important Confucian text Lessons for Women ( Nüjie ), was written by Ban Zhao ( 45-114 CE ): by a woman, for women.

The largest philosophical rivals to Confucianism were Legalism and Mohism before the Han dynasty.

This would be used to justify Li Si's large scale persecutions of the other schools of thought during the Qin dynasty, and the invariable denunciation by Confucian scholars from the Han dynasty and onwards.

The Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders and Miscellaneous Illnesses was collated by Zhang Zhongjing sometime between 196 and 220 CE, at the end of the Han dynasty.

" Wang Mang, the restoration of the Han dynasty, and Later Han.

The Qin calendar was used during the Qin dynasty, and in the beginning of the Western Han dynasty.

The Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty introduced reforms that have governed the Chinese calendar ever since.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

During the Han dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, who was mayor of Changsha near the end of the 2nd century AD, wrote a Treatise on Cold Damage, which contains the earliest known reference to the Neijing Suwen.

The Han dynasty that followed adopted Confucianism as the official state philosophy, as did most other successive dynasties, though Daoism and later Buddhism also played an important part in later Chinese life and thought, while Mohism all but disappeared as a separate school of thought.

From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.

According to the standards of the Qianlong Emperor and successive regimes, " cooked " was synonymous with having assimilated to Han cultural norms, and living as a subject of the Empire, but retained a pejorative designation to signify the perceived cultural lacking of the non-Han people (), ().

Although many Hui people are ethnically similar to Han Chinese, the group has retained some Persian and Central Asian features, their ethnicity and culture having been shaped profoundly by their position along the Silk Road trading route.

Han Cheng retained his rulership as King of Hán and Zhang Liang was moved from Liu Bang's side back to Hán to continue serving as chancellor.

Besides Han Chinese practicing their ethnic Shenism, various Chinese non-Han minority ethnicities have retained their own ethnic religions.

The kingdom then came under the control of the Han empire and was given the Chinese name of Shanshan, though the town at the northwestern corner of the brackish desert lake Lop Nur retained the name of Loulan.

The Han dynasty ( 206 BCE-CE 220 ) retained the basic legal system established under the Qin but modified some of the harsher aspects in line with the Confucian philosophy of social control based on ethical and moral persuasion.

Then Zhao Tuo revoked his title of emperor and Nanyue became a vassal state of the Han once more, but these changes were somewhat superficial as Zhao Tou has retained the autonomy of his Kingdom and was referred to emperor throughout Nanyue, until he died in 137 BC at the age of ninety-three.

The submission was somewhat superficial, as Nanyue seems to have retained autonomy from the Han, and Zhao Tuo was referred as " Emperor " throughout Nanyue until his death.

Although formally a Han subject state, Nanyue seems to have retained a large measure of de facto autonomy.

A Han dynasty Chinese stove model with cooking pots showing the basic attributes that derived to modern wok stoves.

As a discipline calligraphy is, at the basic level, a pursuit － 書法, " the rules of writing Han characters "－ focused on writing well.

The basic units of measurement fortunately remained stable over the Qin and Han periods.

Xiao He, the first Chancellor of the Han Dynasty, added the chapter of Hu () as one of the nine basic laws of Han (), and established the Hukou system as the basis of tax revenue and conscription.

Although accounts vary as to some details, the basic story amongst Han Chinese recounts the discovery by the Qianlong Emperor of an Uyghur girl named Iparhan, granddaughter of Apak Khoja, a local leader in the oasis city of Kashgar.

During the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC-221 AD ), boys were thought ready at age seven to start learning basic skills in reading, writing and calculation.

By traditional Chinese historiography, no Three Kingdoms era officially existed, since in a legal sense the Mandate of Heaven was passed legitimately from the Han Emperor Xian to Cao Wei, and then on to the Jìn Dynasty.

This was an extremely important move for Cao Cao following the suggestion from his primary advisor, Xun Yu, commenting that by supporting the authentic emperor, Cao Cao would have the formal legal authority to control the other warlords and force them to comply in order to restore the Han Dynasty.

One of his elder brothers, Dr Ba Han ( 1890 – 1969 ), was a lawyer as well as a lexicographer and legal scholar.

On Tatooine, Han Solo and Chewbacca offer legal work to Dravis and his smuggler allies in an attempt to solve the New Republic's shortage on cargo ships ; Borsk Fey ' lya, a New Republic council member and native Bothan, dismisses this gesture as futile.

In the early period of Han Dynasty there was no legal distinction between Yixing Wang and Tongxing Wang.

Other important sources for Dong Zhongshu's life and thought include his poem The Scholar's Frustration, his biography included in the Book of Han, his Yin Yang and stimulus-response theorizing noted at various places in the Book of Han " Treatise on the Five Elements ," and the fragments of his legal discussions.

He also abolished the penal tattooing and nose-removal criminal punishments that were practiced among the Yue and instituted Han legal statutes.

( Shu Ke would be the most important guidance on the legal system of future Kingdom of Shu Han ).