Oracle Turtle Scripts This is Oracle Turtle Script, the early Chinese written language carved on a turtle shell during Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 […]
A Peach Flower Fan
The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), Hall Of Longevity (长生殿), Thousands Of Martyrs (千忠戮) and A Peach Flowers Fan (桃花扇) are the four most celebrated classic Chinese operas during the middle and late Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) and shortly after China fell under the Manchu rule.
The play recounts the last days of the Ming Dynasty through a true love story between a talented young scholar surnamed Hou and a beautiful maiden prostitute surnamed Li. MORE
Chinese Art
Chinese Relics in an American Restaurant
This is a stone carving taken from the graveyard of the 2nd Tang Dynasty emperor Li Shimin ( 598-649) in Shaanxi Province. The artefact was […]
Chinese Architecture
China’s Tallest Brick Pagoda Leaning to the East
Wenfeng Pagoda (Cultural Peak Pagoda) in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, was built at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the middle of the 17th century. […]
