Ancient Chinese culture

The rhinoceros horn was an imperial treasure, yet it might just be exactly the ingredient needed to cure the plague. So, amid the fearful disease raging across the capital city, ...

CALGARY, Alberta—Long ago, singers in China and Europe sang with especially pure and beautiful operatic tones thanks to ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—True Chinese culture is a very rare sight. Many don't realize that today's prevailing culture in China ...

William Blake wrote, “To see a world in a grain of sand. And a Heaven in a wild ...

King Wen of Zhou (around 1152–1056 B.C.), personal name Ji Chang, was born in present-day Qishan, Shaanxi Province. ...

Li Jing was a famous Tang Dynasty strategist who was also well-versed in literature. After he retired, many ...

The greatest work of Chinese calligraphy written in the semi-cursive style is the “Preface to the Poems Composed ...

Our mothers have great influence on us. As our first teachers, they influence us in every way, shaping ...

The very first story in the 500 volumes of the "Extensive Records of the Taiping Era" is about ...

It is said that every mark of the scale on a traditional Chinese 16-liang weighing balance represents a ...

Many treasures lay buried underground in Luoyang City during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). They had been buried by ...

Stately mountains surrounded by flowing water—this is the essence of Chinese landscape painting, or “shan shui” (“mountain water”). ...

Quite a number of people can remember their previous lives. Sometimes, it is for the sake of letting ...

Bao Xuan came from an impoverished family during the Western Han Dynasty, 2,000 years ago. His mentor appreciated ...

“Rendering humans is the most difficult. Next are landscapes, and after that are dogs and horses. Terraces and ...

In the seventh year of the Chunxi Era of Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1180), there ...

Night was about to fall, and an old monk was on his way home to the temple. All ...

The “Classic of Filial Piety” is a well-known Confucian classic about filial piety or respect for parents and ...

It may seem normal for a tiger to eat humans. However, whether a tiger eats a man is ...

The Yellow Crane Tower is one of the Four Great Towers in China. It stands along the Yangtze ...

There was a woman in Duchang County in Jiangxi Province by the surname of Wu. She had lost ...

Wan Hui was born in a Zhang family in Wenxiang (now Lingbao County, west of Henan Province) during ...

Jigong was an eminent monk of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) who was also known as Daoji. There ...

On a mountain was a temple that housed a group of monks. Among them were an old monk ...

What if money were a herb? Zhang Yue, the author of “Money as a Herb”, was first appointed ...

Lady Fan was a consort of King Zhuang of Chu. This virtuous lady displayed her wits and wisdom ...

Towards the end of the eighth century, during the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, there ...