Beijing Forbidden City in 600 Years
Beijing Forbidden City, built 600 years ago, is the largest royal palace in today's world. But it pales in comparison…
Sunken Courtyard Dwellings
Sunken courtyard dwellings are commonly seen along the Yellow River in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan provinces in northern China where…
The Invisible Great Wall Of China
Legend had it that a county named Eternal Clarity (永清县) located halfway between Beijing and Tianjin was once a bloody…
Top Ten Anti-Aging Natural Remedies Recommended by Chinese Medicine
Of 365 remedies listed in Divine Farmer’s Herbal Medicine (神农本草经), about one third are categorised as having possessed the first-grade…
Chinese Medicine & Covid-19
China's pandemic specialists confirmed that the use of traditional Chinese medicine remedies in the treatment of Covid19 is one of…
Yellow Emperor’s Classical Medicine
There are four classical works in Chinese medicine: Yellow Emperor’s Classical Medicine, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of Golden Chamber…
Qibao – A Thousand-Year-Old Town In Shanghai
It is said that if you want to know how Shanghai looks in the recent decades, you should go to…
A Song Dynasty Ashoka Tower
In the year of 1011 during the Northern Song, a brand new 9-storey Buddhist pagoda was complete in Nanjing, in…
China’s Effort to Transform Deserts into Farmlands
No Man’s Lands in China’s West Lop Nur, like a giant ear looking from the air, used to be a…
Traditional Chinese Bridges
A royal wedding procession passes through an arched bridge in Bianliang, the capital city of the North Song Dynasty in…
Traditional Chinese Swords
After being buried underground for over two millenniums, when the Sword of Goujian was unearthed in the 1960s, it was…
Bronze Men of Acupuncture
Acupuncture was first invented by Chinese thousands of years ago, and whoever studies acupuncture must have learned the legend about…
Daxing International Airport – the Biggest Airport in the World
Beijing Capital Airport was opened in 1958 and by now it is the world’s second-busiest behind Atlanta in the US,…
Ancient Water Town Qiandeng in Kunshan
Ancient water town Qiandeng (千灯) is located in Suzhou’s Kunshan, where Kunqu, the mother of all Chinese operas, was originated.…
Tu Youyou – First Chinese Woman Won Nobel Prize
84-year old Chinese scientist Tu Youyou received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm on December 10, 2015. She…
2,200-Year-Old Chinese Cast Iron Troughs
In 1986, an ancient bridge site, with 112 timber bridge piles covering a field over 300m long, was unearthed in Shaanxi…
Over 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Silk Fabric and Garment
It is a consensus view that silk fabric was invented by Chinese, but the opinions are divided as to since…
China’s New Development in Rice Farming
Chinese Engineers Have Built Driverless Rice Transplanters A driverless rice transplanter is at work in a paddy field in China.…