A 1000-year-old Chinese divorce settlement agreement was unearthed in 1900 from Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in Gansu Province. The following is a rough translation of this Tang Dynasty divorce agreement: We all know when a man and a woman become a couple, they love each other. The cause for a man and a woman to become a couple is rooted in […]
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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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Mt. Wudang, the Biggest Daoist Hub in China Daoist temples began to appear in Mt Wudang since Lao Tzu and Confucius time 2,500 years ago. But Mt. Wudang was developed into a Daoist hub hundreds years later during the Weijin South North Dynasties (魏晋南北朝) around the 3rd and the 4th centuries, the time when the story of Nirvana in Fire, […]
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This is a giant village house supported by 1,322 timber columns, located in the outskirts of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. Shaoxing is an ancient city with a rich cultural tradition and the homeland to some prominent figures in Chinese history, including the greatest hydraulic engineer and last ruler of Xia Dynasty Yu the Great (大禹, 4,000 BC), China’s greatest calligrapher […]
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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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In China’s Sichuan Province there are two rocky hills hosting a temple accommodating both Daoist and Buddhist faiths. In this multi-faith temple, built in 874 during Tang Dynasty (618 – 907), there are two groups of buildings. Those in the west following the way of Daoism and the ones in the east pursue Buddhist path. The main hall in a […]
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There are two kinds of travellers: One knows where to go and one doesn’t. The one who knows his destination and knows the path to reach there will sooner or later get there. The one who knows little about his destination and the path to get there might just go nowhere. By the same token. There are two kinds of […]
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The Founder of China’s Scholarly Culture Confucius lived in the era when Lao Tzu described how the universe works and Shakyamuni explained how to manager your universe. As China’s most respected teacher, in a pre-internet age 2,500 years ago, Confucius gained over 3,000 followers China wide. Ancient Chinese State-Run University This life-scale replica of the scene resembles a typical lecture […]
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A 400-Year-Old Jade Cup A exquisitely carved jade cup was produced in the late Ming Dynasty. An 800-Year-Old Banana Leaf-Shaped Plate The highly transparent jade plate measuring 18.7cm long with gilt edge is made out of a single piece of crystal quartz and was unearthed in 2008 from an underground storage at a North Sound Buddhist temple in Nanjing. COMMENTS […]
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A Trial of Humanity Taken Place in China on December 15, 2017. After Comfort Women’ statue has been installed in San Francisco in commemoration of the tens of thousands of women from Korea and other countries forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during the World War II, Japan’s Osaka said it is to cut its sister ties […]
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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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Altar of Heaven, the 1920s Altar of Heaven in the south of Beijing Forbidden City, built 600 years ago during the early Ming Dynasty, was a venue for the emperor in the guidance of Daoists to pay personal respect and conduct a private dialogue with higher forces above. Chinese emperors were traditionally regarded as the representatives of the celestial authority […]
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