Ancient Chinese Currency
Chinese is one of the first people to use currency instead of real goods to conduct trade activities. China’s Bronze…
The Wandering Earth – China’s First Sci-fi Movie
The story is set in the far future when the sun has aged into a red giant and is about…
Nuwa and Fuxi in Chinese Mythology
According to Chinese mythology, Chinese people were created by Nuwa, while her male counterpart Fuxi created Chinese culture hence transformed…
Ancient Chinese Bath Culture
Bathrooms and urban water supply system appeared in China as early as the Shang Dynasty. The earliest written reference to…
Plant Warriors
This memorial temple is situated in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, the birthplace of Zhao Yun, a tribute to one of…
China’s Rock Carving Statues
China's tallest rock Buddha statue is located in Guizhou province in southern China. So far nobody knows who was the…
Portraits of Stars and Planets
In Chinese mythology, most beings in the celestial worlds more or less look like humans. The difference between the bodies…
Ancient Chinese Maps
The use of map features heavily in Chinese mythology and real historical events. The earliest recorded event associated with a…
A Peach Flower Fan
The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), Hall Of Longevity (长生殿), Thousands Of Martyrs (千忠戮) and A Peach Flower Fan (桃花扇) are the…
Ancient Chinese Written-Language
The Oracle Turcle Script is considered the earliest form of Chinese characters by archaeologists. But the evidence unearthed lately disputes…
The Great Flood in China 4,000 Years Ago
This more than 3,000-year-old bronze vessel, recovered in 2002 from an antique market, has 98 Chinese characters on the botton…
Chinese Relics in an American Restaurant
The artifact was smashed into small pieces and smuggled to America in 1914. Now it is used as room decor…
China’s Tallest Brick Pagoda Leaning to the East
Wenfeng Pagoda (Cultural Peak Pagoda) in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, was built at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the…
A Chain Bridge
There are a thousand paths to enlightenment, but only two ways to access the 1,000-year-old sutra library.
China’s Magic Plants
Believe it or not, this is not an artwork crafted by a human artist but a plant created by nature.…
Chinese Tea Culture
There are more than 380 varieties of tea-trees growing around the world, of which over 260 are in southern China
Dragon Scale – An Ancient Chinese Bookbinding Technology
As the birthplace of paper and printing, ancient China developed the whole range of bookbinding techniques, from Policy Briefing (简策)…
Modern Humans Lived in China 80,000 Years Ago
Chinese archaeologists have discovered from a cave in Hunan Province 47 human teeth fossils, almost identical to our own. The…