Huizhou is famous for beautiful villages of civilian residents near mountains and rivers. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, feng...
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There are large areas of loess in the middle reaches of the Yellow River that can be dug easily and...
In Northern China，one major characteristic of the traditional residential houses is the courtyard，which is the center of the house.A courtyard...
Vernacular dwellings of China refers to the indigenous buildings that have their roots in the rustic landscape, mainly residential houses,...
Private gardens as opposed to imperial gardens were owned by civilian bureaucrats，men of letters，landlords and rich merchants.China's ancient rites included...
The Summer Palace is another representative of the Qing Dynasty's imperial gardens.Occupying 290 hectares of land，this large landscape garden is...
The Winter Palace consisting of the Yuanming Garden，Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden was completed after 150 years of efforts in...
Imperial gardens are the earliest Chinese classical gardens. There were imperial gardens in almost all dynasties. They belonged exclusively to...
China's classical gardens are environments for sightseeing integrating natural and artificial landscapes，plants and architecture and combining the essence of architecture，painting，literature...
According to the "Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin"of the Ming Dynasty unearthed in...
Chinese Islamic buildings can be classified into two types:one is Hui mosques and imams'tombs（gongbei）all over the country，mostly Han-style buildings rebuilt...
Buddhist temples as the main type of Chinese Buddhist architecture are places where Buddha statues are enshrined, Buddhist ceremonies are...
Taoism，China's indigenous religion，originated from folk witchery and art of seeking immortality.There were pills of immortality in the Warring States Period，the...
Chinese grottoes originated from Indian grotto temples.This type of Buddhist architecture spread to China with Buddhism around the Southern and...
Pagodas are a kind of ancient Buddhist buildings. The earliest pagoda in ancient India was the "stupa"(a Sanskrit word) housing...
In the 2nd century BC，Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty（on the throne from 140 BC to 87 BC）dispatched Zhang Qian...
The word "piyong"originated in the Zhou Dynasty. According to historica materials, the school of the son of the heaven was...
Confucian Temples In the Spring and Autumn Period, thinker and educationist Confucius(with the given name of Qiu and the courtesy...
Ancient Chinese mainly believed in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. As the saying goes, they "ruled the country with Confucianism, cultivated...
There were 50 to 60 dynasties in Chinese history, including legendary ones, documented ones, unified ones and segmented ones. In...