The expression "circus acts"first appeared in the Han dynasty referring to the various acts performed by the man riding a...
Culture
The Chinese traditional art of acrobatics appeared as early as in the Pre-Qin dynasty.Though the acrobatics was quite primitive during...
The capital was the sacred place for the monarch, so it was no wonder that the king in each reign...
The material prosperity is bound to boost people's spiritual pursuit and the development of economy is to enhance the progress...
Mural Painting in Tombs From the artistic works left till today, we know that the principal part of paintings in...
Flower-and-bird painting should be considered as the earliest kind of Chinese painting as the images of flower and bird appeared...
Paintings of mountain and water or landscape painting is a traditional Chinese painting with natural sceneries as its depicting object....
The period of Sui and Tang dynasties，especially Tang dynasty，was the most prosperous time in ancient China history.The society was comparatively...
The architecture in the Xia Dynasty went to two extremes: common people still lived in the sheds partially embedded into...
As a component of the social ideology, religion is particularly complicated and intertwined with the past and present contradictions in...
The fashion of literati doing painting started from late Han dynasty, examples were Zhang Heng, Cai Yong, Liu Bao, etc....
Prior to the emergence of characters what did human beings rely on to exchange information or have another kind of...
People not only availed themselves of Nature to satisfy their basic needs, but also learned to alter Nature and create...
In the Neolithic Age with the rapid progress of the stoneware-processing techniques an array of arrowheads of different material were...
In succession to the Paleolithic Age came the thriving Neolithic Age.The emergence of farming and domestic livestock breeding，ground stone ware，pottery，the...
What did people in the remote antiquity live off? It was collecting and hunting that were the earliest forms of...
Fire is a part of the Nature as reflected in the conflagration caused by the thunderbolts or the flicker by...
When the people in the remote antiquity attained a certain level in terms of material life, their mind was geared...
With discovery of the relevant evidence and data，a tendency is identifiable that the first Chinese hominid seemed to have appeared...
The Chinese nation is one of the oldest and most civilized nations in the world. Chinese civilization is among the...