After the war of reunification was over, the scramble for the throne in the royal family was escalating. Crown Prince...
The Impression of China
Lunyu:Yao Yue（The Analects:The Sayings of Emperor Yao）by Confucius contains the following legend.When the sage emperor Yao was on his deathbed，he...
Just one month after Li Yuan mounted the throne, Xue Ju and his son Xue Rengao who occupied Longxi(western Gansu)...
One of the most significant and enduring products of the merging of Confucianism and traditional Chinese medicine was the phenomenon...
Li shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He was famous both for his ability and foresight in...
Unable to deal with the messy situation, Yang Guang simply moved south to Jiangduin 616 accompanied by his wife Empress...
originally named Minzhong, the Fayuan Temple was first built in 645 by Tang Emperor Taizong to hold a memorial ceremony...
Yang Jian had repealed the system of nine-graded official ranks practiced during the Wei-Jin period so that people with various...
Yang Guang: Emperor of the Sui Dynasty Craving for Grandeur and Success Portrait of Yang Guang(569-618) yang Guang was the...
Under the influence of Empress Dowager Feng, Tuoba Hong had studied the Confucian classics since childhood and was rather familiar...
In 471, four-year-old Tuoba Hong succeeded to the throne from his father Emperor Xianwen(also named Tuoba Hong,454-476). Nevertheless, he was...
In 495, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty led 300,000 troops south to invade the Southern Qi, and besieged...
Deng Ai（197-264），a general of the Wei，already captured Chengdu and destroyed the Shu Kingdom in 263. After ascending the throne, Sima...
One of the principal tenants of Confucianism is the concept of ren (benevolence). The concept of benevolence is central to...
The Confucian school of thought was founded by Kongzi (Confucius) (551-479 BC) during China’s late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476...
Shennong Bencao Jing (Shennong’s Classic of Herbal Medicine) and Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Disorders), compiled...
The Spring and Autumn-Warring States period(770-221 BC)was a time of constantly shifting power in China, as the feudallords of the many...
Decoctions are a type of traditional Chinese remedy made by boiling various substan ces, pctin. Legend has it that the...
Magic and Medicine In the primitive society in which medicine first started to emerge, early humans had little control over...
Fuxi is another legendary ancestor of the Chinese people, said to be one of the originators of traditional Chinese medicine....