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Ancient Chinese encyclopedia survives infernos, robberies

MORE than 300 years before the publication of “Encyclopedia Britannica,” the oldest English-language encyclopedia, a Chinese version, “Yongle Dadian,” or “Yongle Encyclopedia,” was already in existence. The ...

October 25, 2020, Sunday

Norbulingka’s treasure trove of cultural and religious heritage

NORBULINGKA (Luobulinka) Palace in Lhasa is not only the epitome of Tibetan architecture, it is the largest garden in the Tibet Autonomous Region and home to the greatest collection of the region’s cultural ...

October 18, 2020, Sunday

Ancient ‘Siku Quanshu’ a lifetime of page turning Chinese history

IT is commonly known that the “Siku Quanshu,” or “Complete Works of Chinese Classics,” is China’s largest ancient encyclopedia. But how long would it take to read the monumental work? It’s assumed that ...

October 11, 2020, Sunday

Royal ancestral hall boasts a wide array of architectural gems

AS the most famed temple complex in Shanxi Province, and China’s earliest surviving royal ancestral hall, Jinci Temple is an intensive carrier of ancient Chinese architectural art that spans almost every ...

September 27, 2020, Sunday

Pagoda featured in TV series boasts tales of monk and pond

THE monk that swept the Feihong Pagoda floors all day long to show his piety in the 1986 TV drama “Journey to the West” has been embedded in the memory of almost all viewers. The scene is from a novel ...

September 13, 2020, Sunday

The legends of birth and survival behind ancient Buddhist sutras

A Chinese copy of the Buddhist canon “Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka” is recognized as one of four wonders of the National Library of China along with “Yongle Encyclopedia,” “Siku Quanshu” (“Complete Works of ...

September 6, 2020, Sunday

Ancient library rises from ashes to house collection of classics

FOR centuries ancient Chinese libraries were usually located by a pond in case of a fire emergency, and royal libraries strictly followed this tradition. Wenyuan Pavilion, the biggest library inside ...

August 30, 2020, Sunday

Family’s role in creating China’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites

THE Forbidden City in the center of Beijing is the largest collection of ancient buildings in China, while the Summer Palace on the western outskirt of Beijing is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden ...

August 23, 2020, Sunday

Daxiangguo Temple’s key role in developing Chinese Buddhism

As one of the top 10 Buddhist temples in China, Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, Henan Province, complies strictly to the highest standards of a Buddhist shrine. The Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed ...

August 16, 2020, Sunday

Fujian silk map an ancient jewel

A silk map of Fujian Province in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) is one of the wonders of the National Library of China in Beijing. Measuring 6.4 meters in length and 6.4 meters in width, it is the largest ...

August 9, 2020, Sunday

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