Ancient China

period in Chinese history from approximately 475 to 221 BCE

Legendary rulers and culture heroes of prehistoric China, sometimes given regnal dates in the 3rd millennium BC

Nanyue (, , ) was an ancient kingdom founded in 204 BC by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triệu dynasty) continued to rule until 111 BC. Nanyue's geographical expanse covered the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, southern Fujian and central to northern Vietnam. Zhao Tuo, then Commander of Nanhai Commandery of the Qin dynasty, established Nanyue in 204 BC after the collapse of the Qin dynasty. At first, it consisted of the commanderies of Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiang.

thumb|upright|Shennong Yan Emperor () is well known as the first Emperor of Ancient China, who not only invented the farming tools for his people, but also herbs for treating his people's illnesses. Depicted in a mural painting from the Han dynasty.

smoke used as a mode of communication

roughly 23rd—15th century BCE (estimates vary) to 220 CE, the fall of the Han Dynasty

group of five farmed crops, important in ancient China, whose cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source

major flood in ancient Chinese legends during the reign of Emperor Yao

classical Chinese legalist school of thought

four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China: Qinghai Lake (west), East China Sea (east), Lake Baikal (north) and South China Sea (south)

form of capital punishment in ancient China, Korea, and Vietnam, in which extended relatives of a person convicted of particularly serious crimes (treason, rebellion, etc.) would be executed together

thumb|400px|Map of tribes and tribal unions in Ancient China. Yanhuang is shown as Hua Xia Tribal Union in the map. Yanhuang or Yan Huang () was the name of a legendary East Asian ethnic group who were said to have inhabited the middle Yellow River basin in ancient China. The name comes from their alleged descent from two early Bronze Age agrarian tribal confederacies from the Loess Plateau led by the Flame Emperor (Yandi) and Yellow Emperor (Huangdi), whose allied victory over the eastern Jiuli tribes led by the Chiyou at the mythical Battle of Zhuolu has been considered as the foundation for

artificial barium copper silicate pigments developed in ancient China during the Han dynasty

eight Han surnames in ancient Chinese characters

Chunwei (; Old Chinese: ZS: *djun-ɢʷi; B-S: *[d]u[r]-ɢʷij) is a name associated with the Xiongnu, a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD.