Stolen Buddha statue comes home to China
ALMOST a century after it was stolen, a stone Buddha head statue from the Tianlongshan Grottoes (Tianlong Mountain Grottoes) returned to its home in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, at the end of July. Tianlongshan ...
August 8, 2021, Sunday
Mystery of Hebei tomb’s king
IN the spring of 1968 on Lingshan Mountain in Mancheng County, central China’s Hebei Province, a People’s Liberation Army troop blew up a slope to dig a tunnel. After the loud bangs, however, a deep, ...
August 1, 2021, Sunday
Trees’ spiritual value imbued in bronze relic
IN the hit film “Avatar,” there is a giant tree called Hometree, which is a point of extreme spiritual significance to the Na’vi clans on Pandora. In the real world, trees have long been involved in a ...
July 25, 2021, Sunday
A magnificent tomb befitting wealthy, powerful emperor
Maoling (Mao Mausoleum), the tomb of Han Dynasty’s (202 BC-AD 220) seventh emperor Liu Che (156-87 BC), has earned its outsize reputation with the largest size, longest construction time and most valuable ...
July 18, 2021, Sunday
Name controversy lives on for largest bronze vessel ever found
ONE of the most popular ongoing exhibitions in Shanghai is the one displaying two ancient ding — Dake Ding and Dayu Ding — at the Shanghai Museum. The pair was saved from turmoil by Pan’s family, a prominent ...
July 11, 2021, Sunday
Masterpiece of carvings hidden in a forest reveals ancients skills
HIDDEN in the deepest forest at the northern foot of Taishan Mountain in Shandong Province, the Lingyan Temple is a magnificent Buddhist shrine, emperors’ royal residence and an architectural masterpiece ...
July 4, 2021, Sunday
Wise and knowledgeable or sinister guardians of the night?
IN ancient Greek mythology, the owl is the sacred animal of the goddess Athena. It represents wisdom, knowledge and perspicacity. In Chinese culture, the owl has long been seen as an ominous animal due ...
June 27, 2021, Sunday
Temple honors the White Horse that brought Buddhism to China
IN AD 67, two Indian monks carried the Buddhist sutras and Buddha statues on a white horse to Luoyang in Henan Province, one of the capitals of ancient China, during the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220). They ...
June 20, 2021, Sunday
China’s only empress’ wooden ‘Palace of the God of Everything’
Built by China’s only empress Wu Zetian (AD 624-705) of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) and burnt down by her toy boy seven years later, Mingtang Hall in Luoyang City, one of China’s four ancient capitals, ...
June 6, 2021, Sunday
Tale of man who became a god
RESPECTED as a sage, general and god, Guan Yu (AD 160-219) is deified and legendized in Chinese history, worshipped for hundreds of years for progressing from the human to the divine. The human Guan ...
May 23, 2021, Sunday
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