Dongxiang Medicine and Iatrology
Dongxiang Iatrology The Dongxiang people treat patients with herbal medicine in most cases, and sometimes use external therapies, such as massage, bloodletting, cupping and steaming therapies. C Read more »
Legendary Cang Jie - the Inventor of Chinese Characters
Cangjie(仓颉) is a very important figure in ancient China. He was an official historian of the Yellow Emperor and the inventor of Chinese characters. Legend has it that he had four eyes and eight pu Read more »
Yellow Emperor Mausoleum is located on the top of the Qiaoshan Mountain in the northern suburbs of Huangling County, Shaanxi Province. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Yellow Xuan Yuan, the primogen Read more »
Sun Quan - A Brilliant Politician During the Three Kingdoms Period
Sun Quan, or alias Zhong Mou, was the founder of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. As a brilliant politician, he showed his talent at an early age and followed his elder brothe Read more »
The Craft on Clothings of the National Minorities
The women of the national minorities excel in these crafts.Pringting and dyeing in either monochrome paper matrix printing or color-process block printing are two different methods.In Za Ran(tie-d Read more »
The Yangshao culture (Chinese: 仰韶文化; pinyin: Yǎngsháo wénhuà) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the central Yellow River in China. The Yangshao culture is dated from around 50 Read more »
The famous scenic spot Mount Cangshan and Erhai Lake is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The crystal waters of Erhai Lake and the snow-capped Mount Cangshan radiate with Read more »
Hangzhou: A Heavenly City of Joy
Consider China as a house. If Beijing is the decorated living room, where the family politely greets guests, then Hangzhou is the backyard garden where a family can really show off their home's tr Read more »
While tea has long been a favorite drink of the Chinese, in the last few years, quite a few tea-flavored drinks are on the market. Supermarket statistics show that sales of Kangshifu Icy Black Tea, Read more »
TCM health tips for the fall season
WITH autumn coming, the weather becomes cooler and drier. According to traditional Chinese medicine, pathogenic dryness becomes a major problem affecting the lungs, skin and digestive system. Dr Zha Read more »
In the minds of the Chinese, the city of Hangzhou in present-day Zhejiang Province has long held its status as a near paradise on earth. There is even an ancient expression still well-known today Read more »
The type of Multi-eaved Pagodas 密檐式塔 is relatively large, about the same height and size as the multi-storeyed type. Its most outstanding feature is the many layers of eaves. Other characteristics Read more »
Beijing, China: My Kind of Town
Why Beijing? Now the throbbing heart of China and the world’s biggest construction site. Seven hundred years ago, Beijing was capital of Kublai Khan’s Mongol Empire, which at its peak stretched t Read more »
The Zhilin Temple in the west of Jianshui Town was built in 1296. With a longer history than the Jianshui Confucius Temple, it is considered the earliest Buddhist Temple in south Yunnan; thus it is r Read more »
The Patchwork Art of West China
The patchwork is a traditional folk art in which a painting is created with cotton cloth and threads by hand stitching. The art with a distinctive local flavor is popular in north Shaanxi area in w Read more »
On the Beauty Standards in Ancient China
Nourished by the five thousand years of history, ancient Chinese had formed distinctive viewpoints about the feminine beauty. In general, the beauty standard of the ancient Chinese is: tender, tiny Read more »
Shanghai Tourism Festival is an important tourist festivity which is jointly sponsored by Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Tourism Administrative Commission, Shanghai Municipal Economic Com Read more »
The Lion Grove Garden (Shi Zi Lin)
This is situated in the north-east of Suzhou. It occupies 1.1 hectares, with an open area 0.88 hectare; it is rectangular in shape with its length stretching from east to west. A high wall surrrounds Read more »
Villager accidentally discovers West Han tomb in his own yard
A villager named Lu Mingheng in Lianyungang City in China's Jiangsu Province discovered an ancient tomb belonging to the Western Han dynasty in his own yard accidentally when he was trying to dig Read more »
Liu Yuxi (772 - 842), born in Luoyang (part of today's Henan Province), was a Tang-Dynasty writer and philosopher. Liu Yuxi was a gifted person with eagerness to learn. As a child, he wasexceptio Read more »
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