Post by creeper on Nov 9, 2010 23:52:42 GMT -5
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Nation: People's Republic of China
Name: Wang Yao
Gender: Male
Appearance Age: 20-21ish
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Height: 169 cm (5 ft, 6.5 in)
Weight: 60 kg (132 lbs)
Appearance:
He looks like any other Chinese man walking down the street. Though his looks shed some doubt on his gender, there could be no doubting his Asian descent. From the narrow eyes that disappear when he smiles, to the jet black hair tied into a loose ponytail. And like any other Asian, he is deceptively young, looking for all the world like a boy newly transformed into a man.
His skin is neither too light or too dark, having spent an equal amount of time indoors, in the company of his ink and brush, and outdoors, tending the rice patties. He possesseS a willowy frame, almost fragile in appearance. Almost. For he held himself with a pride and strength not found in people his "age". And though he is usually found wearing an ordinary, silk changshan, he bore the dignity of an emperor.
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Personality:
He is rather puzzling in his ways, often swinging from two extreme personas, that of a five-year-old girl and a bitter, old grandma. The rest of the time he muddled through all the personas littered in between.
For the most part, he holds himself superior to everyone. Always demanding the respect his fellow Nations just aren't willing or wanting to give. Constantly harboring a need to direct people, he is not content unless he is in control. With a perfectionist streak a mile wide, he voices out his criticism readily and is rarely satisified. He maintains the belief that he is the only person who knows what he's doing so "everyone should just be quiet and listen to me, aru".
He is deeply steeped in tradition and is painfully naive when it comes to the modern world. His stubborness would make it easier to move mountains than change his opinion. And though it may not seem like it, he always means well. He has an honest desire to take care of the people around him, with an almost paternal instinct to protect. He just shows it in a fashion that's rather hard to understand.
Despite his rather old-fashioned behavior, he adores Hello Kitty or basically anything cute. Despite his age, he really has no fondness for being called an 'old man' and believes himself to still be in his prime. And he can be surpsingly energetic when he wants to be. He tries to be 'cool and hip' and keep up with all the crazy youngsters. But of course, it doesn't really work out and only serves to make him seem more dated.
At 5000 years old, he feels the many millenias weigh heavily on his bones, and yet at the same time, he is filled with the untamed energy of youth. He has wisdom beyond compare but his actions are often foolish. On one hand, he is typing away at a keyboard, and on the other, a poised brush dancing above the paper. One foot stuck in the past, and one foot taking a step towards the future.
Forever a contradiction, what was and what is, he is a walking enigma in black, silk shoes.
Likes:
★ Cute animals/toys (specifically Shinatty-chan and pandas)
★ Practicing Tai Chi in the morning
★ Hosting dinner get togethers
★ Calligraphy and painting
★ DDR
Dislikes:
✖Western traditions
✖People not respecting/listening to him
✖England
✖Opium
✖Spending too much money
Fears:
☣ War
☣ Betrayal
☣ Rejection
Secrets:
♦ He has a panda tattoo on his butt, it had happened during one of his opium highs so he's not very proud of it
♦ Japan's betrayal still haunts him to this day, and though he may not show it, he still feels pain from the scar on his back
♦ There is a secluded corner of his house where China has set up an altar honoring the deceased Nations. When he permits himself, he spends hours talking to them and keeping them updated on their descendants lives
Strengths:
-He's a hardworker, he'd go to any lengths to feed and protect his family
-He's amazingly resilient as shown by the many millenias he's survived
-He's clever, awfully so, but mostly uses it to get cusmers to buy at his desired price
-He is incredibly good with numbers and accounting, thus his booming economy
Weaknesses:
-He is amazingly arrogant, having closed himself off from the world when he believed no one else was at his level
-For all the years he has lived, he hasn't really learned his lesson and often repeats the same mistakes
-His attempts to progress while keeping his dated way of thinking, will and is proving to be rather disastrous for him
-He is goal oriented, and while that may be a strength, he can become so focused on a goal that he will forget to take care of himself and end up hurting himself in the process
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History:
Though his supposed first dynasty, the Xia dynasty, had not begun until approximately 2100 B.C., his memory stretches as far back as 2700 B.C. When China was not yet China, a time now only remembered in myths and legends of old.
-2737 B.C. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
-2070 - 1600 B.C. Xia Dynasty: the first recorded dynasty, described in ancient hostircal chronicles such as "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Bamboo Annals"
In the cradle of the Yellow River valley, China slowly grew and grew, gaining his foothold on existence.
-1600 - 1046 B.C. Shang Dynasty: its presence was proven by oracle bones, instruments once used for predicting the future, now only remnants from the past
-1046 - 221 B.C. Zhou Dynasty: the longest-lasting dynasty in Chinese history, first to invoke the belief of the Mandate of Heaven
As Autumn falls to Winter, China faces a challenging time as he begins to mature. The growing pains plaguing him and everything just aches.
-722 - 476 B.C. Spring and Autumn Period: named after the "Spring and Autumn Annals", power is decentralized, aggravated by invasions from the northwest, the rising influence of movements such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism, China now consists of hundreds of states
-476 - 221 B.C. Warring States Period: further political consolidation ended with seven prominent states that battled each other
Till finally Winter melts to Spring, and China simply blossoms.
-221 - 206 B.C. Qin Dynasty: the Qin state unified China under its dynasty. It had great military expansion, revolutionary for having a strong cetralized government, a development of a uniform written language, measurement, and currency, acheived increased trade, improved agriculture and military security, infamous for silencing all opposition with events such as the burying of scholars, built the now famous Great Wall of China
They met among the caravans, the stomping of horse feet, and the swirl of African dust. Sun-kissed skin encased in sculpted, gleaming armor, and a delicate frame robed in a graceful, silk hanfu. He was called Rome. China didn't quite know what to make of him.
-202 B.C. - 220 A.D. Han Dynasty: first dynasty to embrace Confucianism, advances in the arts and sciences, extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Huns thus enabling access to the Silk Road, the first of several Roman embassies to China
Succumbing to conflict and turmoil, China found himself suffering an identity crisis, left only with shattered pieces of himself
-220 - 420 A.D. Wei and Jin Dynasty: Wei Dynasty's rivals, Shu and Wu both broke off, leading to the Three Kingdoms, until all kingdoms wer re-unified by the Jin Dynasty
-420 - 589 A.D. Southern and Northern Dynasties: an age of civil war and political chaos, the spread of Buddhism and Taoism, arts and culture flourished, techology advanced
Pulling himself together again, China gets back to his feet stronger than ever. This pattern of dividing and unifying will continue on for the rest of his life.
-589 - 618 A.D. Sui Dynasty: reunited China after nearly four centuries of fragmentation, set up institutions that would be adopted by their successors
- 618 - 907 A.D. Tang Dynasty: a new age of prosperity and innovations in art and technology, kept trade routes to the west open, established the equal-fields system that granted land to families based on their needs and not their wealth, declined through series of rebellions
- 907 - 960 A.D. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: China is divided again, with northern China subjected to rapid succession of five dynasties, and the western/southern region were divided into 10 stable regions
- 960 - 1234 A.D. Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia Dynasties: the dynasties continue to fight for control over as much of China as possible
They tore from the north, burning and pillaging there way through. He told his siblings to flee, trying to hold them back. But they were just too much... So many of his children dying, already so many dead. Their battle cries piercing far and wide till finally, the Song was destroyed.
- 1271 - 1368 A.D. Yuan Dynasty: established, after a long, bloody war with Mongols, by Kublai Khan (grandson of Ghengis Khan) who wished to adopt the Chinese customs
But China was nothing if not a survivor. No matter how hard the wind blows, the mountain will not bow to it.
- 1368 - 1644 A.D. Ming Dynasty: overthrew the Mongol rulers, ubanization and private industries grew, foreign trade increased, focused on agriculture, tried to expand China's influence, built up a navy and an army of one million, conquered Vietnam, sailed the Indian Ocean reaching as far as the east coast of Africa, printed many books using movable type
The heady smoke from the pipe spiralled upwards, forever upwards. His heavy gaze saw nothing. Bright, green eyes watched him, the wail of a child echoing in his ears. He could hear them pacing, predators lying in wait, their greed circling, circling, circling him. China suffocated. Damn opium bastard.
- 1644 - 1911 A.D.: founded when the Manchus took over the Ming Dynasty, forced the queue-order and Manchu-style clothing (cheongsam), stretched influence over Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang (present-day China + Mongolia), control weakened during the 19th century, imperial edicts banning opium and Britain's desire to continue the trade collided ensuing in the First Opium war, the war ended with the Treaty of Nanking that ceded Hong Kong to Britain, the Taiping Rebellion erupted but was crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking, this was followed by many other similar rebellions such as the Boxer rebellion, the loos of credibility lead to the rise of warlordism, Qing Dynasty tried to move on with modernization but was stopped by Dowager Empress Cixi, corruption, cynicism, and imperial family quarrels made for ineffective "New Armies" that were defeated in the Sino-French and Sino-Japanese wars, the Boxer Rebellion caused the Eight Nation Alliance to invade for a relief expedition, ended with Qing making more concessions to the alliance
He could feel the winds of change shifting inside him. The angered cries of his people. No more! No more! He had seen the rise and fall of empires, seen the ages dawn and end, and he was not finished yet!
-1911 A.D.: young officials, military officers, and students rose up against the Qing Dynasty with the Wuchang uprising
- 1912 - 1916 A.D. Early Republic: formed in Nanjing on January 12, 1912 with Sun Yat-sen as president, Sun had to turn over power to Yuan who then proceeded to call himself emperor but his surbordinates opposed him, seeing rebellion in the horizon, Yuan abdicated paving the way for the warlord era
- 1916 - 1928 A.D. Warlord Era: most of the country was ruled by provincial military leaders, with the government in Beijing constantly switching hands, 1917: China declared war on Germany, 1919: May Fourth Movement by angry students against the Beijing government in Japan that pressured Chinese representatives not to sign the Treaty of Versailles, the movement rekindled the fading cause for the revolution and Sun Yat-sen set up a base in southern China (with the help of the southern warlords) in hopes of reuniting the Nation, Su died in 1925 turning over the power to Chiang Kai-Shek, 1927: Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) under Chiang Kai-Shek and the Communist Party split with Chiang chasing the Chinese Communist Party from their base
-1928 - 1937 A.D. Nanjing Decade: after being chased away and embarking on the Long March, the Communist Party reorganized under Mao Zedong, the Nationalists try to modernize legal and penal systems, build railraods and highways, establish a penal system, established Standard Mandarin language, widespread communication flourished, political freedom curtailed due to one-party rule
There was a scar on his back. A line drawn in the sand, on his flesh. Women screaming, the scent of gunpowder, the whistle of bombs, flames, ash, and death. China stared at his brother, his precious little brother. "We are no longer family." God, it burns.
- 1937 - 1945 A.D. Second Sino-Japanese War (WWII):
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