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Apple Music. Retrieved March 20, WEA Records Pvt. March 4, Retrieved December 16, Irish Singles Chart. Luke , the producer whom Kesha accused of sexually assaulting and emotionally abusing her in a lawsuit , [13] [18] [23] [24] although the song never mentions Dr. Luke by name. Luke told her: "You are not that pretty, you are not that talented, you are just lucky to have me You are nothing without me. Kesha has said that "Praying" "showcases [her] voice in a way [it] has never been showcased in [her] entire life. Maria Sherman of Complex thought the track was "more purposeful than the music that made [Kesha] famous.
Those looking to make pop music with real resonance would be wise to look to this song, and whatever Kesha does next. Kesha's vocals and emotional delivery were also praised by reviewers. Eve Barlow of Variety commented that the song would "be enough to induce goosebumps in even the harshest of cynics. It also peaked on the Adult Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40 charts at numbers six and nine, respectively.
The outfits that the singer wore were inspired by the locations of the clip, as well as her fondness for vintage s and s clothing. The director also wanted the singer to wear black angel wings in the video to make her appear "fucked-up", but Burkhart insisted that Kesha should wear white angel wings to emphasize her purity and beauty. The video alternates between black-and-white and color, [19] while featuring title cards stylized to resemble Hindi script.
Or is this one of those dreams? Those horrible dreams that seem like they last forever? If I am alive, why? If there is a God or whatever, something, somewhere, why have I been abandoned by everyone and everything I've ever known? I've ever loved? What is the lesson? What is the point? God, give me a sign, or I have to give up. I can't do this anymore. Please just let me die. Being alive hurts too much. Later, Kesha is seen with an eye painted on her forehead as she prays at an altar before a neon cross, [52] while also chased by the men with pig masks.
The clip ends with the singer walking on water like Jesus [52] and text that says "the beginning". Weiss of Billboard praised the video, highlighting it as the best work Kesha released in her career. He found the religious imagery in the video reminiscent of Madonna's " Like a Prayer " and the clip's use of pigs similar to the video for Nine Inch Nails ' " Closer " and the passage of Homer 's Odyssey where Circe transforms men into swine. It's an unexpected place to find hope, mirroring Kesha's move from desolation to empowerment. And [ Kesha performed "Praying" live during her Rainbow Tour , which lasted from September to November Credits adapted from the liner notes of Rainbow. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Archived from the original on July 8, Kemosabe , RCA. The last remaining ruler, the year-old emperor Emperor Huaizong of Song , committed suicide, along with Prime Minister Lu Xiufu [59] and members of the royal clan. On Kublai's orders, carried out by his commander Bayan, the rest of the former imperial family of Song were unharmed; the deposed Emperor Gong was demoted, being given the title 'Duke of Ying', but was eventually exiled to Tibet where he took up a monastic life. The former emperor would eventually be forced to commit suicide under the orders of Kublai's great-great grandson, Gegeen Khan , out of fear that Emperor Gong would stage a coup to restore his reign.
The Song dynasty [61] was an era of administrative sophistication and complex social organization. Some of the largest cities in the world were found in China during this period Kaifeng and Hangzhou had populations of over a million. Although women were on a lower social tier than men according to Confucian ethics , they enjoyed many social and legal privileges and wielded considerable power at home and in their own small businesses. As Song society became more and more prosperous and parents on the bride's side of the family provided larger dowries for her marriage, women naturally gained many new legal rights in ownership of property. Religion in China during this period had a great effect on people's lives, beliefs, and daily activities, and Chinese literature on spirituality was popular.
Tansen Sen asserts that more Buddhist monks from India traveled to China during the Song than in the previous Tang dynasty — The populace engaged in a vibrant social and domestic life, enjoying such public festivals as the Lantern Festival and the Qingming Festival. There were entertainment quarters in the cities providing a constant array of amusements.
There were puppeteers, acrobats, theatre actors, sword swallowers, snake charmers, storytellers , singers and musicians, prostitutes, and places to relax, including tea houses, restaurants, and organized banquets. During this period greater emphasis was laid upon the civil service system of recruiting officials; this was based upon degrees acquired through competitive examinations , in an effort to select the most capable individuals for governance. Selecting men for office through proven merit was an ancient idea in China.
The civil service system became institutionalized on a small scale during the Sui and Tang dynasties, but by the Song period, it became virtually the only means for drafting officials into the government. Hymes criticized this model, stating that it places too much emphasis on the role of the nuclear family and considers only three paternal ascendants of exam candidates while ignoring the demographic reality of Song China, the significant proportion of males in each generation that had no surviving sons, and the role of the extended family. Yet Su was a product of his times, as the identity, habits, and attitudes of the scholar-official had become less aristocratic and more bureaucratic with the transition of the periods from Tang to Song.
Due to Song's enormous population growth and the body of its appointed scholar-officials being accepted in limited numbers about 20, active officials during the Song period , the larger scholarly gentry class would now take over grassroots affairs on the vast local level. The gentry distinguished themselves in society through their intellectual and antiquarian pursuits, [94] [95] [96] while the homes of prominent landholders attracted a variety of courtiers , including artisans, artists, educational tutors, and entertainers.
The Song judicial system retained most of the legal code of the earlier Tang dynasty, the basis of traditional Chinese law up until the modern era. Song judges specified the guilty person or party in a criminal act and meted out punishments accordingly, often in the form of caning. Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays argued against traditional Chinese beliefs in anatomy such as his argument for two throat valves instead of three ; this perhaps spurred the interest in the performance of post-mortem autopsies in China during the 12th century. The Song military was chiefly organized to ensure that the army could not threaten Imperial control, often at the expense of effectiveness in war. Northern Song's Military Council operated under a Chancellor, who had no control over the imperial army.
The imperial army was divided among three marshals, each independently responsible to the Emperor. Since the Emperor rarely led campaigns personally, Song forces lacked unity of command. Although the scholar-officials viewed military soldiers as lower members in the hierarchic social order, [] a person could gain status and prestige in society by becoming a high-ranking military officer with a record of victorious battles.
Military strategy and military training were treated as sciences that could be studied and perfected; soldiers were tested in their skills of using weaponry and in their athletic ability. The Song navy was of great importance during the consolidation of the empire in the 10th century; during the war against the Southern Tang state, the Song navy employed tactics such as defending large floating pontoon bridges across the Yangtze River in order to secure movements of troops and supplies.
In a battle on January 23, , massive arrow fire from Song dynasty crossbowmen decimated the war elephant corps of the Southern Han army. There was a total of military treatises written during the Song period, as listed by the history text of the Song Shi compiled in It was the first known book to have listed formulas for gunpowder; [] it gave appropriate formulas for use in several different kinds of gunpowder bombs.
The visual arts during the Song dynasty were heightened by new developments such as advances in landscape and portrait painting. The gentry elite engaged in the arts as accepted pastimes of the cultured scholar-official, including painting , composing poetry , and writing calligraphy. Enormous encyclopedic volumes were compiled, such as works of historiography and dozens of treatises on technical subjects. This included the universal history text of the Zizhi Tongjian , compiled into volumes of 9. The genre of Chinese travel literature also became popular with the writings of the geographer Fan Chengda — and Su Shi, the latter of whom wrote the 'daytrip essay' known as Record of Stone Bell Mountain that used persuasive writing to argue for a philosophical point.
The imperial courts of the emperor's palace were filled with his entourage of court painters, calligraphers, poets, and storytellers. Emperor Huizong was the eighth emperor of the Song dynasty and he was a renowned artist as well as a patron of the art and the catalogue of his collection listed over 6, known paintings. Emperor Gaozong of Song initiated a massive art project during his reign, known as the Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute from the life story of Cai Wenji b.
This art project was a diplomatic gesture to the Jin dynasty while he negotiated for the release of his mother from Jurchen captivity in the north. In philosophy , Chinese Buddhism had waned in influence but it retained its hold on the arts and on the charities of monasteries. Buddhism had a profound influence upon the budding movement of Neo-Confucianism , led by Cheng Yi — and Zhu Xi — Although his writings were not accepted by his contemporary peers, Zhu's commentary and emphasis upon the Confucian classics of the Four Books as an introductory corpus to Confucian learning formed the basis of the Neo-Confucian doctrine. By the year , under the sponsorship of Emperor Lizong , Zhu Xi's Four Books and his commentary on them became standard requirements of study for students attempting to pass the civil service examinations.
Buddhism's continuing influence can be seen in painted artwork such as Lin Tinggui 's Luohan Laundering. However, the ideology was highly criticized and even scorned by some. The statesman and historian Ouyang Xiu — called the religion a "curse" that could only be remedied by uprooting it from Chinese culture and replacing it with Confucian discourse.
The Christian sect of Nestorianism , which had entered China in the Tang era, would also be revived in China under Mongol rule. Sumptuary laws regulated the food that one consumed and the clothes that one wore according to status and social class. Clothing was made of hemp or cotton cloths, restricted to a color standard of black and white. Trousers were the acceptable attire for peasants, soldiers, artisans, and merchants, although wealthy merchants might choose to wear more ornate clothing and male blouses that came down below the waist. Acceptable apparel for scholar-officials was rigidly defined by the social ranking system. However, as time went on this rule of rank-graded apparel for officials was not as strictly enforced.
Each official was able to display his awarded status by wearing different-colored traditional silken robes that hung to the ground around his feet, specific types of headgear, and even specific styles of girdles that displayed his graded-rank of officialdom. Women wore long dresses, blouses that came down to the knee, skirts, and jackets with long or short sleeves, while women from wealthy families could wear purple scarves around their shoulders.
The main difference in women's apparel from that of men was that it was fastened on the left, not on the right. The main food staples in the diet of the lower classes remained rice, pork , and salted fish. Champa rice was drought-resistant and able to grow fast enough to offer two harvests a year instead of one. Song restaurant and tavern menus are recorded. They list entrees for feasts, banquets, festivals, and carnivals. They reveal a diverse and lavish diet for those of the upper class. They could choose from a wide variety of meats and seafood, including shrimp, geese, duck, mussel, shellfish, fallow deer , hare, partridge, pheasant, francolin, quail, fox, badger, clam, crab, and many others.
Beef was rarely consumed since the bull was a valuable draft animal, and dog meat was absent from the diet of the wealthy, although the poor could choose to eat dog meat if necessary yet it was not part of their regular diet. The Song dynasty had one of the most prosperous and advanced economies in the medieval world. Song Chinese invested their funds in joint stock companies and in multiple sailing vessels at a time when monetary gain was assured from the vigorous overseas trade and domestic trade along the Grand Canal and Yangtze River. The iron industry was pursued by both private entrepreneurs who owned their own smelters as well as government-supervised smelting facilities.
The iron trade within China was advanced by the construction of new canals , facilitating the flow of iron products from production centres to the large market in the capital city. The annual output of minted copper currency in reached roughly six billion coins. The economic power of Song China heavily influenced foreign economies abroad. The Moroccan geographer al-Idrisi wrote in of the prowess of Chinese merchant ships in the Indian Ocean and of their annual voyages that brought iron, swords, silk, velvet, porcelain, and various textiles to places such as Aden Yemen , the Indus River , and the Euphrates in modern-day Iraq.
For example, many West Asian and Central Asian Muslims went to China to trade, becoming a preeminent force in the import and export industry, while some were even appointed as officers supervising economic affairs. In order to reduce the risk of losing money on maritime trade missions abroad, wrote historians Ebrey, Walthall, and Palais:. One observer thought eagerness to invest in overseas trade was leading to an outflow of copper cash. He wrote, 'People along the coast are on intimate terms with the merchants who engage in overseas trade, either because they are fellow-countrymen or personal acquaintances They invest from ten to a hundred strings of cash, and regularly make profits of several hundred percent'. Advancements in weapons technology enhanced by gunpowder, including the evolution of the early flamethrower , explosive grenade , firearm , cannon , and land mine , enabled the Song Chinese to ward off their militant enemies until the Song's ultimate collapse in the late 13th century.
As early as the Han dynasty , when the state needed to accurately measure distances traveled throughout the empire, the Chinese relied on a mechanical odometer. Polymath figures such as the scientists and statesmen Shen Kuo — and Su Song — embodied advancements in all fields of study, including botany , zoology , geology , mineralogy , metallurgy , mechanics , magnetics , meteorology , horology , astronomy , pharmaceutical medicine , archeology , mathematics , cartography , optics , art criticism , hydraulics , and many other fields.
Shen Kuo was the first to discern magnetic declination of true north while experimenting with a compass. Su Song was best known for his horology treatise written in , which described and illustrated in great detail his hydraulic -powered, 12 m 39 ft tall astronomical clock tower built in Kaifeng. The clock tower featured large astronomical instruments of the armillary sphere and celestial globe , both driven by an early intermittently working escapement mechanism similarly to the western verge escapement of true mechanical clocks appeared in medieval clockworks , derived from ancient clockworks of classical times. These star charts feature a cylindrical projection similar to Mercator projection , the latter being a cartographic innovation of Gerardus Mercator in Moreover, the Soochow Astronomical Chart on Chinese planispheres was prepared in for instructing the crown prince on astronomical findings.
The planispheres were engraved in stone several decades later. There were many notable improvements to Chinese mathematics during the Song era. Mathematician Yang Hui 's book provided the earliest Chinese illustration of Pascal's triangle , although it had earlier been described by Jia Xian in around Qin's major work was the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections published in Geometry was essential to surveying and cartography. The earliest extant Chinese maps date to the 4th century BCE, [] yet it was not until the time of Pei Xiu — that topographical elevation , a formal rectangular grid system, and use of a standard graduated scale of distances was applied to terrain maps.
The innovation of movable type printing was made by the artisan Bi Sheng — , first described by the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays of The advancement of printing deeply affected education and the scholar-official class, since more books could be made faster while mass-produced, printed books were cheaper in comparison to laborious handwritten copies.
The movable type invented by Bi Sheng was ultimately trumped by the use of woodblock printing due to the limitations of the enormous Chinese character writing system, yet movable type printing continued to be used and was improved in later periods. The Yuan dynasty scholar-official Wang Zhen fl. This includes the printing of sixty-six copies of a 5, volume long encyclopedia in , the Gujin Tushu Jicheng Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times , which necessitated the crafting of , movable type characters cast in bronze.
The most important nautical innovation of the Song period seems to have been the introduction of the magnetic mariner's compass , which permitted accurate navigation on the open sea regardless of the weather. There were other considerable advancements in hydraulic engineering and nautical technology during the Song dynasty. The 10th-century invention of the pound lock for canal systems allowed different water levels to be raised and lowered for separated segments of a canal, which significantly aided the safety of canal traffic and allowed for larger barges. In the Song period, the Chinese devised a way to mechanically raise and lower rudders in order for ships to travel in a wider range of water depths. Architecture during the Song period reached new heights of sophistication.
Authors such as Yu Hao and Shen Kuo wrote books outlining the field of architectural layouts, craftsmanship, and structural engineering in the 10th and 11th centuries, respectively. Shen Kuo preserved the written dialogues of Yu Hao when describing technical issues such as slanting struts built into pagoda towers for diagonal wind bracing.
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