When China was first united some 2250 years ago, it was already a country rich in skills and tradition, where farmers grew rice in flooded fields, women wove beautiful silk cloth, and philosophers wrote important guides to life. China's imperial age of dynasties and emperors lasted to the 20th century. Here you will meet young people like Chao, a papermakers son and Baozhai, a talented poet. Spend time with a hardworking student, a soldier stationed on the Great Wall, a silk makers daughter and boys travelling the Silk Road.