In 2014, a group of 1,500-year-old state-owned huge grain storages were unearthed in Luoyang, Henan province. The 700 storages were found to be built during the Sui Dynasty (581-619), by then Luoyang was Chinese capital and Henan. The grains stored in the warehouses would be released during the times of crises, such as feminine due to natural disaster or social […]
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Shanghai museum houses tens of thousands of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, but only four that has a “semi-transparent” quality, and this is one of them. An Over 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Mirror that Is Semi-Transparent The mirror, unearthed from a West Han (206 BC – 24 AD) tomb, weights 50 g and measures 7.4 cm in diameter. If you hold it against […]
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The World’s Tallest Outdoor Elevator in Hunan – Bailong Elevator in Zhangjiajie Geopark took 3 years to complete from 1999 to 2002. The total height of the elevator measures 326 metres, and it takes 2 minutes to travel from the bottom to the top. COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Toán Nguyễn: For the purpose of travel, the construction of such an […]
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Majiabang Culture (马家浜文化) existed during the so-called Neolithic Age at the mouth of the Yangtze River, primarily around Lake Tai, in the area between Changzhou in southern Jiangsu and Hangzhou in northern Zhejiang, centred with Jiaxing, 100 km from Shanghai. Its existence was previously unknown until 1959 during a government-organised archaeological study at village Majiabang in Jiaxing. The unearthed items from […]
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The Great Wall was mainly built during the time of the First Emperor Qin more than 2,000 years ago. By then it was just a clay structure. The Great Wall we see today was largely restructured during the early Ming Dynasty in the late 14 and the early 15th centuries, with special brick making and mortar producing techniques not fully […]
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Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday unveiled the world’s first “5G solution-ready” commercial 7nm (nanometre) chipset Kirin 980 which is believed to be the most powerful smartphone SoC (system-on-a-chip) equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. Huawei Is Ready for 5G Solution The first smartphone to be powered by the Kirin 980 chipset will be Huawei’s Mate 20 series which is […]
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Ancient Chinese Bronze Casting Technology A Money Tree Grow for 2,000 Years This is a 2,000-year-old Chinese money tree true to its name, as each of its bronze leaf is in the shape of coin. The tree was discovered in 1990 from an East Han tomb set up in a cave on a cliff face in Sichuan Province. This might […]
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Long before the First Emperor Qin drove his army from west in Xian to reach the east coast area and united China in 221BC, there were two highly developed kingdoms in the region, one in Shaoxing (near Hangzhou) and another in Suzhou (near Shanghai). It was the Spring and Autumn Era (770BC-476BC), a brilliant period in Chinese history. In the […]
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Traditionally, the pace of Chinese people’s life was rhythemed by the 24 Solar Terms, which divide each lunar month into 2 segments based on the sun’s movement. Chinese farmers schedule their farming work according to these seasonal turning points. It is a great invention that has ensured people in China are adequately fed and Chinese civilisation is able to continue and upgrade for thousands of years. […]
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There were hundreds different types of cold weapons in ancient Chinese battlefields, with the most commonly used including bow (弓), crossbow (弩), sword (剑), broad knife (刀), spear (矛), speargun (枪), cugel (棍), battleaxe (斧), battle spade (钺), halberd (戟), lance (殳), whip (鞭), blunt sword (锏), hammer (锤), fork (叉), plow (钯), dagger (戈) and shield (盾) – known as tools for […]
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The flood problem in Beijing, Chinese capital situated away from coast and major rivers, becomes more severe in the recent decades. The cause could be multifactorial: The expansion of the urban footprint, the impermeable road pavement, the lack of maintenance and repair to the underground drainage infrastructure, and the damage done to the natural and manmade water system that historically served as […]
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Traditional Chinese cosmological system is mainly based on the positions, relationships and movements of the sun, the moon, the five major planets in the solar system and the 28 constellations in the sky. It was established more than 2,200 years ago during the Warring States period (330 BC – 221 BC), serving the purpose of observing and monitoring the impact of climate change on […]
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