According to ancient Chinese culture，rituals provided the norms of conduct for people. The goal was to maintain social order.Music was...
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No one can visit the Forbidden City without marveling at its unique application of color.Yellow and vermilion are the thematic...
The Ming capital was built along an eight-kilometer-long axis running south to north. Buildings and landscapes were laid out on...
The wonder of the Great Wall lies in its magnificent and varied structure. As a defense work, the Great Wall...
The hardships involved in building the Great Wall are beyond imagination. Numerous people had to leave their homes and families...
The geographic structure and climatic patterns of China has led to the development of two distinct cultures from ancient times....
The Great Wall is unparalleled in the world in its scale and span of construction, as well as for the...
No discussion about Chinese culture is complete without mention of the Great Wall. Through more than 2,000 years from the...
On the 11th day of the 7th lunar month of 1405,a huge fleet of 208 ships appeared on the blue...
Not only did the Tang Empire open its doors to overseas friends and embrace foreign cultures, many of its people...
Both the Tang and the preceding Sui Dynasty (5 81-618) presented large-scale song and dance performances at court banquets and...
The pioneer who blazed the trail of the silk Road was Zhang Qian(c.164-114 BC),a general of the Western Han Dynasty(206...
The Silk Road refers to a transport route connecting ancient China with Central Asia, WestAsia, Africa, and the European continent....
The 2008 Olympics Games has adopted a set of symbols to represent the beauty of Chinese calligraphy.By combining certain features...
Over a history of 5,000 years, Chinese people have produced numerous inventions. These include traditional Chinese medicine, silk, porcelain, the...
Ancient Chinese believed that people could communicate with Heaven, and the Temple of Heaven was built to enable this. The...
The architecture of the buildings in the Temple of Heaven ingeniously embodies the concept of holding nature in awe. While...
The Temple of Heaven was constructed during the reign of Emperor Yongle(r.1403-1424) of the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644), and completed in 1420,...
Sunzi's Art of War was introduced abroad from the Tang Dynasty(618-907) onwards.A Japanese student named Kibimakibitook the book home in...
The rich philosophical thought in Sunzis Art of War has aroused greater and greater attention from scholars of ancient Chinese...