This detail of “The Spinning Wheel” by Wang Juzheng from the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) depicts a poor woman at a spinning…[详细]

This character refers to filial piety, an important traditional moral in China. Due to the global trend of aging populations, greater attention is…[详细]

Meiguan, or the Mei Pass, has been a strategic site situated between Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces since the Qin Dynasty. It remained importa…[详细]

This character is generally known as road, route or path. It also signifies doctrine or principle. In the context of traditional Chinese philos…[详细]

These pieces of jian paper are collected in the Beiping Jianpu, or Chinese Color Prints of Today. The first (top-left) is designed by Wang Zhenshe…[详细]

This character often refers to letter paper, especially artistic paper with designs. It originally referred to small, narrow pieces of bamboo used…[详细]

This character has the general concept of medicine. This is an ideographic character composed of two parts. The inner part represents an arrow and…[详细]

An employee of a traditional Chinese medicine drugstore is weighing medical herbs that are stored in a set of baizi gui (Chinese medicine cabinets…[详细]

This detail (Above) of the Ming painting, “Landscape Map of the Silk Road,” depicts trade routes starting at Jiayuguan, the western en…[详细]