From left to right: a wine decanter and a warming bowl from the Song Dynasty, a copper ox lamp inlaid with silver from the Eastern Han Dynasty …[详细]

A detail from “Emperor Taizong of Tang Receiving the Tibetan Envoy” by the Tang artist Yan Liben Photo: FILE The Chi…[详细]

This character refers to the word feather. The Chinese character for fan is etymologically derived from a picture of feathers under a roof. …[详细]

Guo Wenlin is a professor of library science at the Palace Museum and a representative inheritor of the art of copying and reproducing ancient …[详细]

When used as an adjective, this character means “ancient, old or former.” When used as a noun, it refers to “reason, acciden…[详细]

This character is used frequently. When it is used as an adjective, it means “wide, far-reaching or numerous.” When used as a verb,…[详细]

The image (left) is a part of a Republican era advertisement for Indanthren cloth; the other (right) is a part of the famous yuefenpai nianhua,…[详细]

This character usually refers to a unique social class in ancient China. It is often translated into scholar-gentry, scholar elite or scholar-offi…[详细]

“Literary Garden” by Zhou Wenju, a renowed painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–960) Photo: FILE …[详细]