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Calligraphy masterpiece flourishes on TCM

IN the long, profound history of Chinese calligraphy, there are numerous notable father-and-son calligraphers. The “Two Wangs,” for instance, Wang Xizhi (AD 303-361), dubbed as “Sage of Calligraphy,” ...

December 6, 2020, Sunday

Hidden palace of Buddha sarira unearthed after 1,000 years

ONE night in the autumn of 1981, a flash of lightening split a Buddhist pagoda and opened up a secret underground world at the same time — a palace that had stored the Buddha Sakyamuni’s remaining sarira ...

November 29, 2020, Sunday

Artist and museum join hands in recovering calligraphy treasure

IN a scene that resembled something out of a spy movie, a Chinese woman, carrying a black sailcloth-traveling bag, boarded a flight from New York to Shanghai on April 11, 2003. During the almost 16-hour, ...

November 22, 2020, Sunday

Three strands of Chinese faith fixed under ancient temple roof

ZHENGUO Temple, located in Pingyao County, Shanxi Province, is an ancient Chinese architectural treasure notable for featuring very large brackets that hold up the roof and flying eaves. Remarkably, no ...

November 15, 2020, Sunday

‘Three Rarities Treasure’ almost lost to imperial family’s greed

ON the far west of the “Yangxin Dian,” or Hall of Mental Cultivation, in the Imperial Palace in Beijing, there is a side room called “Sanxi Tang,” or the Hall of Three Rarities. The room acted as Emperor ...

November 8, 2020, Sunday

Enter the Crouching Dragon: an ancient military strategist

ANCIENT Longzhong, located in Xiangyang City of Hubei Province, provided an ideal sanctuary for Zhuge Liang (AD 181-234) to nurture and cultivate his skills before he blossomed into an outstanding politician, ...

November 1, 2020, Sunday

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

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