A section of the Great Wall located at Jinshanling, about 140 km northeast of Beijing, is the best preserved part and was built in the Ming Dynas…[详细]

This character refers to the sun. In Chinese philosophy, yang is positive, bright, active and masculine. Yin, by contrast, is characterized as pas…[详细]

Details of “Hiking on the day of Chong Yang” by Zhang Daqian (1899–1983) Chong Yang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival, fall…[详细]

This character refers to gold, money or wealth. It is also used to describe things that are precious. For example, the old saying, “An inch …[详细]

Details of a Ming painting named “Thriving Southern Capital,” depicting the prosperity of Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty (1368&ndash…[详细]

This character refers to the sea. It is often used with characters such as ren (people), shu (book) or yun (cloud) to mean a vast expanse or quant…[详细]

Yue fen pai, a type of calendar poster prevalent in old Shanghai. Photo: NIPIC The 1842 Treaty of Nanjing contributed to jump-starting the tran…[详细]

This character refers to a Chinese end-blown bamboo flute noted for its mellow and melancholy tone. In terms of its calligraphy, the two graphical…[详细]

Waterfront houses in Wu Zhen, Zhejiang Province Photo: 699PIC Swords and xiao flutes are two important elements in the poems of Gong Zizhen …[详细]