The Story of China - 'Ancestors'
British iTunes Chart Performance

• Release date: 21 Jan 2016
• Chart debut: #65 (29 Apr 2025)
• Highest Position: #52 (02 May 2025)
• Most recent chart position: #52 (02 May 2025)
• Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 3

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UK TV Episodes chart performance history for Ancestors

michael goes in search for the roots of chinese culture in wuxi michael joins the qin family reunion when 300 relatives gather to worship their ancestors on tomb sweeping day michael then journeys to the plain of the yellow river...

...he joins a million pilgrims at the shrine of an ancient goddess nuwa legend says nuwa made the first people of china from the mud of the yellow river michael then goes in search of the origins of the chinese state visiting excavations at erlitou and examining ‘oracle bones’ – artefacts that carry the earliest example of chinese writing retrieved from the shang royal tombs in the 1920s after looking at the advances of early chinese astronomy and its role in chinese history he looks at the works of confucius possibly the most influential philosopher in the world

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