Beijing Opera: Scattering Celestial Flowers on Earth
Boasting enlightenment while merely knowing what will be the true reality is still an existence in a fantasy
Ancient Chinese Terrace Pavilions
Looming on the shore of Lake Dongting in Hunan province, Yeyang Terrace (岳阳楼) is one of the three most celebrated…
Fan Zhongyan – A Great Chinese Statesman and Poet
Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹, 989-1052), a Suzhou native, was a great statesman, philosopher, writer, educator, military strategist of the Song Dynasty.…
Ancient Chinese Gold Artefacts
This gold creature contains 99% of gold and was unearthed from a bomb dating back at least 2,000 years ago.…
Mysterious Prehistoric Signs on Rocks in a Mountain in Henan
More than 3,000 mysterious signs discovered in Mt Juci (具茨山), of Henan Province, China, are believed to be carved in…
Suzhou, a 2,500-Year-Old City Built along Waterways
A row of waterfront houses in Suzhou with some balustrades formed by curved back support of a bench for casual…
The Secrets for Forbidden City to Surviving Earthquakes
What are the secrets for Forbidden City to surviving so many earthquakes in 600 years? To find the answer, specialist…
The World’s Oldest & Tallest Surviving Wooden Pagoda
Ying County Buddhist Pagoda, situated in Shanxi Province in northern China’s Yellow Plateau, is the oldest surviving timber-frame pagoda in…
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…