The Five Directorates were five service agencies in the central government of the
Sui,
Tang
Tang or TANG most often refers to:
* Tang dynasty
* Tang (drink mix)
Tang or TANG may also refer to:
Chinese states and dynasties
* Jin (Chinese state) (11th century – 376 BC), a state during the Spring and Autumn period, called Tang (唐) b ...
, and
Song
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dynasties of China, apart from the
Nine Courts
The Nine Courts were nine service agencies in Imperial China that existed from the Northern Qi dynasty (550–577) to the Qing dynasty (1636–1912). Headed by the Nine Chamberlains, the offices were subordinate to the Three Departments and Six Mi ...
.
The Five Directorates included:
*
Directorate of Waterways ()
*
Directorate for Imperial Manufactories ()
*
Directorate for the Palace Buildings ()
*
Directorate for Armaments ()
*
Directorate of Education
The Guozijian,Yuan, 194. sometimes translated as the Imperial College, Imperial Academy, Imperial University, National Academy, or National University, was the national central institution of higher learning in Chinese dynasties after the Su ...
(), during the Sui and Tang dynasties
*
Directorate of Astronomy (), during the
Five Dynasties period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concu ...
and Song dynasty
References
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Government of Imperial China
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