The above-pictured gu (left) and jue (right) bronze ritual wine vessels were typical of the Xia ritual vessel system, which was inherited by the l…[详细]

People attend a grand prayer ceremony for the sea goddess Mazu in Putian, Southeast China’s Fujian Province. Folk belief in Mazu has played …[详细]

The spectacular unfolding of Chinese civilization occurred in Primitive China, the nearly 3 million square kilometers of the middle and lower reache…[详细]

Inscriptions on Western Zhou bronze objects show that nobles of different clans shared the same surname due to the large-scale intermingling of clan…[详细]

Marriage documents of the late Qing and Republican Era are valuable to legal studies, folklore, economics, everyday life history and stylistics…[详细]

Horizontally, the Grand Canal connects the most important eastern region of China and flows through a number of large and small regions with differe…[详细]

The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank founded by famed modern Chinese banker Chen Kuang-fu, which instituted the first credit department i…[详细]

The ancient city of Pingliangtai, located in Henan Province, dates back about 4,300 years. It is one of the earliest cities found in China and a mon…[详细]

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination system was installed to root out patronage and nepotism and to select those who have knowled…[详细]