Early last century, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province in China’s northeast was home to the most advanced biological warfare labs run by the Japanese army known as Unit 731, where a large number of native Chinese, as well as the captured resistance fighters from all over China and from Russia and Europea, became the raw materials of Japanese medical experiments. Here […]
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On 17 December 2007 at Lingjin (灵井) of Xuchang (许昌) in central China’s Henan Provence (河南), Chinese archaeologists unearthed sixteen pieces of fossil bones that can be assembled into an almost complete human skull belonging to a man (or a Homo sapiens as so defined by the “modern” archeologists), who lived during the Paleolithic period about 80,000 to 100,000 years […]
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Legend had it that a county named Eternal Clarity (永清县) located halfway between Beijing and Tianjin was once a bloody battlefield a thousand years ago. The conflicts lasted for about 200 years between the Northern Song Dynasty and nomadic Tartars from the north who kept attacking the Middle Kingdom. It is said that of 55 villages in the area, 36 […]
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I Ching (Yi Jing 易经) is the very foundation of Daoism and Chinese culture. But I Ching that we normally refer to is just one-third of all I Ching that was created by the ancient Chinese. This one-third of I Ching we know today is actually called “Zhou Yi (Change in Heaven 周易)”, meaning: “the I Ching compiled during the […]
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