It is a consensus view that silk fabric was invented by Chinese, but the opinions are divided as to since when Chinese started to produce silk. Some researchers believe it began since the age of Fuxi (伏羲), which was during the Paleolithic time, and others consider it must be during the time when Yellow Emperor reigned, which was the period of […]
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Mogao grottoes in Dunhuang at the strategic crossroad of the ancient Silk Road were first dug out in the 4th century and the work ended when China, West Asia, Russia and half of the Erupe fell under the Mongol’s rule nearly a thousand years late. Currently, there are 492 caves housing a total of 2,415 statues and 45,000 m2 of […]
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In 114 BC, Chinese Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty decided to send Zhang Qian as his envoy to the foreign states on a diplomatic mission. Zhang Qian and his royal entourage and military guards began their journey from the capital city Chang’an (Xi’an), travelling through today’s Gansu, Xinjiang provinces, via Afghanistan, Iran, Russa, Greek to Rome in today’s Italy, […]
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Chinese Engineers Have Built Driverless Rice Transplanters A driverless rice transplanter is at work in a paddy field in China. Rice transplanting from nursery to field is one of the most labour-intensive and physically demanding farmworks in China, which requires the workers to bend their body to reach the wetland during the entire process. The driverless auto-transplanters can surely free […]
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Infrastructure is one of the foundations for the economic development of any nation, while roads and bridges are among the most important infrastructure. Below are some bridges constructed in recent decades in China. Beipanjiang Bridge, the world’s tallest bridge that links two mountainous provinces – Guizhou and Yunnan – in southern China. A bridge in Xianju, Zhejiang Province in east […]
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The US Government made a plan to nuke China and kill 30% of the total Chinese population living in 30 Chinese cities, according to a secret document unearthed late last year by George Washington University’s National Security Archive. The scheme known as Single Integrated Operational Plans (SIOP) was initiated between 1962 and 1964 under President Lyndon Johnson’s administration. The objective […]
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When Bai Bin (白斌), a Chinese man from Guizhou Province, decided to run a one-man marathon from the South Pole to the North Pole, he was 47. On March 2, 2018, he left Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition Station, also known as the Station of the Great Wall, and began the journey that took him 433 days to complete. Along the way, he […]
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Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the great classic Chinese novels, along with Three Kingdoms Warfare, Water Margin and Journey to the West. The setting of the story is based on the political, social and cultural environment of the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644), the final stage of the classic Chinese civilisation. Through the meticulous depiction of the […]
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Chinese is one of the earliest nations using currency instead of real goods to conduct trade activities. China’s Bronze Age Coins The earliest currencies used by Chinese were cowry shells or copies of the shells. In Chinese scripts, the characters associated with money or other valuable items normally have a radicle 贝 (貝), meaning shell. These bronze money in the […]
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The Wandering Earth is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film based on the novel by Chinese engineer Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), the author of Three Body Problem that won Locus Award and Hugo Award. The story is set in the far future when the sun has aged into a red giant and is about to engulf the earth. In order to […]
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According to Chinese mythology, Chinese people were created by goddess Nuwa (女娲) with yellow clay. Nuwa and Fuxi, Yin and Yang Nuwa commonly appears in classic Chinese painting or carving with Fuxi (伏羲), the creator of Chinese culture, including scripts, agriculture and the original Eight Trigrams that is designed to decode the structure and the rules of the universe. A […]
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Chinese Royal Bathrooms 2,300 Years Ago Chinese archaeologists have recently excavated 3 royal bathrooms dating back to the Warring States Period (475 BC – 221 BC) in outskirts of Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, where terracotta warriors were unearthed. The walls and floors of the bathrooms were decorated with ceramic tiles, and the wet areas were equipped with drainage holes and sewage […]
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