Li Bai is known as a famous Romantic Poet in ancient China. He was lived during the Tang Dynasty.Along with writing romantic poems about women, he romanticized nature. Li Bai apparently led a wild life. He is said to have killed people in martial arts challenges and personal duels. He wrote about co...

On December 11, 2022, over 100 residents of the Zhongshan community in Xiamen, a coastal city in Fujian Province, carried a brand-new wooden boat 4 km to the seaside before setting it on fire in front of thousands of onlookers. Making an offering of the boat, known as a wangchuan, literally meaning...

Beijing’s Central Axis not only symbolizes Chinese culture, but also links daily lives of local residents. Over hundreds of years, countless stories have been staged on the Central Axis.Today, the people living on Beijing’s Central Axis also try to enrich the stories in their unique way.From Huton...

Lived: 1902-1992Nationality: British, later resided in China and AustraliaBooks:China: a short cultural history(1935),Revolution in China(1952) republished asThe Birth of Communist China(1964),The Chinese View of their Place in the World(1964),Em...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang – First Emperor of ChinaEmperor Qin Shi Huang (259 BC - 210 BC) fascinates people when they talk about theGreat Walland theTerracotta Warriors and Horses- his two greatest achievements. As the first emperor of China, he indeed has a profound influence o...

Lanterns play an important and irreplaceable role in Chinese long history and symbolize the brilliant culture of China. The art of lanterns, as the precious traditional culture of Chinese, is also inherited and continues among folks. The craftwork of lantern is still widely used in a current society...