A Historical Beijing
Altar of Heaven, the 1920s Chinese emperors were traditionally regarded as the representatives of the celestial authority on earth. The…
Maoshan, A Mysterious Taoist Sect
Maoshan Daoist sect is one of the most mysterious Daoist schools, known as the inheritor of the Supreme Purity camp…
A 400-Year-Old Bordertown in Desert
A Bordertown in Gansu In a remote desert region in China’s west in today’s Yongtai County, Gansu Province, there is…
Ancient Chinese Bronze Technology
Ancient Chinese Bronze Casting Technology In ancient China, bronze tripod vessels were the official symbols of a kingdom’s authority. This…
Hongshan Red Hill Archaeological Site
The Hongshan Red Hill culture existed during the so-called Neolithic era in the period between 4700 BC to 2900 BC.…
Kunqu Opera: The Peony Pavilion
Miss Du Lixiang accidentally entered a desolated spring garden that actually was her family's backyard, yet she never knew its…
Neo-Red Guards and Social Extremists
China is probably the first country in the world to develop a nationwide platform as social media where in theory…
The Art of War
The Art of War is the oldest book on military strategy and the first to understand the vital importance of…
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (长恨歌) is a true story about a tragic love between a Chinese emperor and his…
Selected Classic Chinese Poems
A Tang poem wasn’t known to the public until very recently. When a porcelain pot of the Tang Dynasty was…
Complete Enlightenment
The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment records a Buddhist seminar and is viewed, particularly by Chinese school Buddhism, as the jewel…
China’s Travel Agents for the Deceased
The Two Wrolds Chinese character 鬼 (ghost) is traditionally used to describe two types of sentient beings: one is the…
Water Margin Illustration by Ming Artist
Water Margin (水浒传), also known as Outlaws of the Marsh and All Men Are Brothers in English translation, is one…
A Short Biography of Fat Cats
A Republic: Not so long ago in a galaxy nearby, there was a planet called Mud; on the Mud there…
Traditional Chinese Wedding
A traditional Chinese wedding process all started with the man’s family sending a matchmaker to the girl’s household for a…
A Tiger’s Decree
Yuan Shuipai (袁水拍, 1919 – 1983) was one of China’s great contemporary poets with his best works being 400 satirical…
A Brief Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Temples
A classic Chinese Buddhist temple is typically a building complex consisting of several courtyards as shown in the illustration below.…
The Death Of A Chinese Diplomat
Mr Tan Jinyong (谭锦镛) was a proud Chinese man because he was a kung-fu master and he was a diplomat.…