WW Chapter 9

The Golden Age of China consisted of achievements in arts, literature, excellence in poetry, landscape painting and ceramics. Tang and Song built a state structure that consisted of six major ministries, personnel, finance, rite, army, justice and public works. The Song dynasty was China's most skilled, richest and most popular on Earth, because of its cultural and political achievements. Women in the Song Dynasty were regarded as distractions for men, they led less strict lives but still had many restrictions. They began to work and have more control of their lives later in the dynasty.