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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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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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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This memorial temple is situated in Zhengding County, Hebei Province, the birthplace of Zho Yun as, a tribute to one of the most celebrated martial figures in Chinese history. Zho Yun lived in the 3rd century and was the most trusted general of Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms’ Period. These two rows […]
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The Tallest Rock Stature in China China’s tallest rock Buddha statue is located in Guizhou province in southern China. A close look at China’s tallest rock statue of Buddha. So far nobody knows who was the author and when the statue was created. COMMENTS FROM MINDS.COM Erichorrobin He meditated so well, unaware that a forest has started to consume him. […]
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In Chinese mythology, most beings in the celestial worlds more or less look like humans. The difference between the bodies of the terrestrial humans and the celestial beings are that the latter is much more refined in substance, more graceful in appearance, lighter in weight, shining in colour and transformable in shape since it is not formed with flesh and blood […]
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The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), Hall Of Longevity (长生殿), Thousands Of Martyrs (千忠戮) and A Peach Flower Fan (桃花扇) are the four most celebrated classic Chinese opera dramas since Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) until this day. Author Kong Shangren Kong Shangren (1648 – 1718), the author of A Peach Flower Fan, was a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius and an eyewitness to […]
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Oracle Turtle Scripts This is Oracle Turtle Script, the early Chinese written language carved on a turtle shell during Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC) – an era ruled by merchants with a social system chiefly based on written business contacts. This script used to be considered as the earliest form of Chinese characters by archaeologists. But the evidence […]
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This more than 3,000-year-old bronze vessel was recovered by a Beijing museum researcher in 2002 from an antique market in Hong Kong. On the bottom of the container, there are 98 Chinese characters with the opening lines praising the legendary Great Yu’s hydraulic projects nearly 5,000 years ago to control the flood from the Yellow River. An Ancient Reference to […]
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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 smashed into small pieces and smuggled to America in 1914. Now it is used as a room decor in a restaurant in The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. These are a pair […]
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The White Deer Plain (白鹿原) is a Chinese TV drama narrating the history of an old village on the conservative Yellow Plateau in Shaanxi Province, the home to First Emperor Qin’s terracotta warriors. The man standing at the door to the main living/bedroom is played by He Bing (何冰), one of China’s best actors who won last year’s major Chinese […]
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