A Paddy Field on the Rooftop
Rooftop gardens are sort of in fashion today, but a Chinese man in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, has created a rice…
Chinese City and Village in Eight Trigrams Formation
The entire city Tekesi (or Tekes) in China's northwest Xinjiang Province has been grouped into eight zones separated by eight…
Chinese Who Live in Caves
A Lonely House on Hilltop in Southern China A lonely house partially built into a rock perched on the top…
Pots of Fire Seeds Used by Chinese in The Neolithic Period
This earthen pot was excavated in 1956 in Dongzhuang Village in Shaanxi Province and found to be a product of…
A Willow Building in a Chinese Village
Bamboo and willow branch are commonly used to make furniture and, occasionally, simple building structures in China. Binzhou, in China’s…
A Full Moon Night Over the Forbidden City
In the beginning of a spring night, there was a full moon freely floating in the sky over the Forbidden…
How Chinese Settled Divorce 1,000 Years Ago
A 1000-year-old Chinese divorce settlement agreement was unearthed in 1900 from Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in Gansu Province. The following is…
Dragon Boat Festival
Boat racing and zongzi during the Duanwu festival were initially created to pay tribute to Qu Yuan (343 BC -…
Lake No Worries in the Heart of Nanjing
Lake No Worries (Mochou 莫愁湖), located west to Qinhuai River with a total area 32 hectares, was a man-made waterway…
Ancient Chinese Anti-famine Measures
In 2014, a group of 1,500-year-old state-owned huge grain storages were unearthed in Luoyang, Henan province. The 700 storages were…