Historical deepenings on the Olympic Games of Beijing

Confucius and its religion: Approximately 500 years before Christ, a Chinese test, Confucius (551-479 a.C.), gave to China a moral and a much simple religion: every city one makes the good of the society, honors the memory of its ancestors and follows the ancient traditions that are sagge because they are ancient. A perfectly Chinese attitude was this and was followed also when from India reached and a new religion, the buddismo is diffused, than on the other hand, it did not contrast to you at all. China tried therefore to live second the ancient traditions honoring the memory of its ancestors. And, since the orde they threatened mongole it from the North, erected against of they a long wall 2400 kilometers, wide in average six meters and high nine. It was only the immane operates of architecture that the Chinese elevated; it did not have some value of art, if some portals beautiful, but been worth are emphasized much to hold relatively calm China behind that gigantic shelter. Within this cerchia of he walls, the Chinese attended to lead an existence test without to think very next to the afterlife and without ideal lofty porsi in the aldiquà. They did not build up large templi, neither great buildings, but beautiful small houses of wood encircled from garden in which expert giardinieri they succeeded in giving to the trees to form fantastic of monster and dragons being grafted eyes of E glass enameled scales in theirs corteccia. In agreement to create a comfortable and pleasant private life remaining with the society and the common good: this was the dynes of every Chinese test; and everyone tried to catch up it as better it could and with the means which it had.

Chinese wall: still today in Russian and the Slavic languages China is called Kitaj. Our name of China derives instead from the Chin dynasty that reigned in III the century a.C and that it had the merit riunificare the country. Last Chin emperor, Cheng (1336) begins the construction of the great Wall. This colossal military work is the only visible human construction from the Moon, was used to say a time. For 10 years more than 3.000 men they worked to you, of which beyond the half it died to you and the lori bodies ended between the masses and it is known of the wall. Be that as it may, it is China, in memory of the hundreds of restaurants from menus at a good price, and those from “thousands and a plate”; not at all it is the kitchen of the king! The same one is not true nothing but ago. “Better to see once, that one hundred times to listen” say one of the many proverbi Chinese. Truer nothing

Gengis Khan: Conferred principesco title from on the faithfuls to Temujin (1155 or 1167 been born near Ning-hsia, passed away to You have You have 1227), son of the bobile Yesugei Ba'atur. The greatest condottiero of Asia is considered. Remained orphaned to ten years, the young to the service of the monarch of the Kereit was placed, the Ong Quan Togril, signaling itself to such point for the courage, the audacity and the ferocity, than many noble mongoli they tightened themselves around he proclamandolo head. The unexpected one to rise of the new star provoked the coalition of Togril and Jamugs, valoroso head tribe, and of the king of the Naiman who defeated Gengis Khan hardly obligating it to withdraw itself in the east end of Mongolia. However in 1203, reorganized the army, Gengis Khan resumed the fight, it defeated and killed its former head, the Ong Qan, while the Kereit came for its order dispersed he between the several faithful tribes. Same rising had the following year Jamugs and its acolytes, while the king of the Naiman died on the field. In the 1206 great assembly of the noble mongoli proclamò the Qan (Khan, head). Unified the mongole tribes and Turk-mongole of the Gobi under its reign and organized the army on the base of an iron discipline, Gengis undertaken Khan the expansion work in which the rifulse its Corps of Engineers. In the 1209 Hsi-Hsia reign its was forced to declare itself vassallo. Some year after all the Manchuria was in its power; in the 1215 Beijing it was conquered. In 1218 the reign of Kiuciuk in the Kazakhstan fell, while between 1220 and 1221 were conquered and plundered Khojend, Bukhara, Samarcanda, Urgeng of the transoxiana, Tiflis of the Georgia and Sundak in Crimea. With a fast campaign, Gengis Khan devastava all Afghanistan while, while one of its generates destroyed them the forces united of the principles ucraini of the Kalka river. Some day after its dead women, second its last will, entire were massacred the population of Ning-hsia, happen them of the Hsi-Hsia. Gemgis Khan was judged for many generations a feracious and Barbarian annihilator: an Asian Attila. Today it is stretched to place in relief its strategic genius and the alive organizational talent; while we cannot not frame, in the context of the nomadic and primitivo spirit of its people, the war cruelty that accompanied its gesta. “He was man of great valence, senno and precaution, and tenea lordship well and frankly…”, wrote of he Marco Polo. It is remembered in the history books like one of the greatest condottieri never existed, able to re-unite under its power, in XII the century, one large empire two times that Roman. Most feracious with who it did not want to be submitted to its dominion, was extremely tolerant in religious field. Nevertheless Gengis Khan, the gentleman of the Mongoli, from little one had a physicist weak person who seemed had to condemn it to a found it hard survival ebre and in the arduous sea of steppes, where the temperature of inverse arrives to impossible rigors and the diet of polulates nomads is based on latte, meat, cabbages and tuberi. Orphan, neglected from the paternal clan that little hard thought and valoroso to it for being able to become a head, was forced to live of espediente and holdups. But he learned to fight and to weave alliances founded on the fidelity total and absolute. Its fortune. In 1182, he who the legend directly wants descendant from the Great Blue Lupo, progenitor of the stirpe mongola, and today national hero, spouse amatissima the Borte…
(from the book “the other face of the martial limbs” of GSB)

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