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Historical significance of seals, status, identity they represent

WITH roots dating back thousands of years, seals play a significant role in Chinese culture. Beyond a unique motif to mark documents and artworks, they are symbolic of status and identity. The exact ...

October 24, 2021, Sunday

The mystery and majesty of a multi-cultural Buddhist monastery

The Buddhist monastery Ruiying Temple, located in Mongol Autonomous County in Fuxin, a city in the northeastern Liaoning Province, is a religious shrine that embodies the cultures of Han, Manchu, Mongol...

October 17, 2021, Sunday

Bamboo slips provide clues to evolution of written language

Over 1,000 bamboo slips were discovered in a Qin tomb in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, in 1975....

October 10, 2021, Sunday

At the helm just 27 days, emperor had his tomb filled with valuables

IN 2011, the cultural relics department in Jiangxi Province received a report that an ancient tomb near Guanxi Village in Nanchang was being looted. When the archeological team arrived at the tomb, experts ...

September 26, 2021, Sunday

Magnificent bronze chariots that befit army of terracotta warriors

LISTED as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the famous Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor — Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC) — in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province highlights not only a massive terracotta army ...

September 19, 2021, Sunday

Huazhi Temple’s Buddhist grottoes still breathtaking after 1,200 years

Hidden in the deep forest on the Huashi Mountain surrounded by Zhuxi Lake in the city of Qionglai, Sichuan Province, Huazhi Temple earns its reputation from its beautiful Buddhist grottoes that date back ...

September 12, 2021, Sunday

An ancient Chinese artwork once used to regulate troop movement

IN Chinese, the word fuhe means “in accordance with,” but many people, even Chinese, don’t know it was split into two words more than 2,000 years ago. The noun fu represents the tally used to regulate ...

September 5, 2021, Sunday

A place to call home for the Chen clan in Guangdong Province

As the most common surname in southern China, people surnamed Chen can find their origins in Chen’s Lineage Hall in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province....

August 29, 2021, Sunday

Recovering stolen cultural relics

COUNTLESS Chinese cultural relics were plundered by foreign invaders during wars. To recover them, a commission was established in 1945 after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ...

August 22, 2021, Sunday

Myths and marvels surround worshipped Guangzhou temple

South Sea God Temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, has blessed the coastal city’s fishermen with safe voyages and bumper harvests for more than 1,400 years....

August 15, 2021, Sunday

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