As explained above, there are many factors that explain the diversity of eating habits around the world. For example, people...
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There is a widespread saying about food and drink in China-"food is the first necessity of the people". This shows...
Much of the ritual still associated with Chinese marriage was established many centuries ago. Even in the twenty-first century after...
Twenty-first-century Wuzhen does more than offer a glimpse of life in Ian attractive late-Qing-dynasty water town. It also seeks to...
A search in the Cambridge University library reveals dozens of books on ACe e food. Most make clear how food...
The West's identification of the seven wonders of the ancient world would Lnever have secured approval in Asia. Given the...
The phrase Land of Rice and Fish', used to describe north Zhejiang province and Wuzhen, could just as well have...
It is the immense age of Chinese literature that immediately strikes the Loutside observer, even if much about China is...
Mardens thrived in ancient China as they did in ancient Rome. Surprisingly Ifor such an ephemeral pastime as gardening, their...
The Pinghua told by the village story teller doubtless included the occasional theatrical prop within their tales, perhaps a rusting...
Wuzhen has lived through its water. Its many waterways hold the traveller's attention. They weave through the town unwinding like...
Some cultural rites are celebrated throughout modern China. Grave Sweeping Day, the poetry of Xu Zhimo, the twenty-four divisions of...
In the 20th century, historians and archeologists carried out comprehensive, deep, and multi-field research on bronze ware based on scientific...
A lot of ancient bronze ware was unearthed in the Song Dynasty.The imperial court collected most of the bronze objects，and...
As the social system drastically changed after the Warring States Period, bronze ware manufacturing stopped. In the Western Han Dynasty,...
In terms of bronze items for daily use, the most are made up of bronze mirrors. They were used for...
In the Han Dynasty, noble families were abundant in their production of bronze objects for daily use, such as lamps...
It was popular to use bronze sculptures to decorate palaces and imperial gardens in the Han Dynasty. According to historical...
Terracotta warriors in the tomb of Emperor Shihuang of the Qin Dynasty were discovered in Lintong County, Shaanxi, in 1974,...
In 221 BC, the Qin Kingdom wiped out the other six kingdoms and established the Qin Empire, the first unified...