Based on historical documents and unearthed wooden slips, this article looks into the diplomatic relations between the Han Empire and the kingdoms o…[详细]

Archives and unearthed slips show that the Han Empire's operation upon the Silk Road varied with different sections of the routes, so as to keep the…[详细]

Jingxue, or classics scholarship, originally referred to Chinese scholarship before imperial unification by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE. [详细]

Regardless of whether papermaking originated in the Western Han or the Eastern Han, or whether Cai was the inventor or improver of the papermaking p…[详细]

Qu Yuan (c. 339-278 BCE) was a distinguished statesman and one of the greatest poets in China's history. [详细]

The creation of the bird imagery in "Li Sao" was based on Chu culture, and was inspired by the romantic personality of the Chu people. [详细]

Among the tens of thousands of wooden slips and silk manuscripts unearthed from the sites of the frontier fortresses at Hexi Corridor [an important …[详细]

The tea culture of the Tang and Song era was characterized by two distinctive tea drinking methods, serving as proof that there were sophisticated a…[详细]

In 1987, an underground palace was discovered at Famen Temple [a famous Buddhist temple dated to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–220)] situated in…[详细]