The dragon, or long in Chinese, is the only mythical creature among the 12 Chinese zodiac signs. Embedded in legendary tales for millennia, it is …[详细]

Traditional Chinese music is based on a pentatonic scale, with the earliest record of this five-tone scale dating back 2,600 years.[详细]

A Liangzhu ceramic plate and the Warring States bamboo slips in the collection of Tsinghua University provide us with new clues on when the earlies…[详细]

The Rites of Zhou is not merely a collection of “ritual texts,” but also a set of pragmatic political plans. It subsequently became an important…[详细]

The Zhou people regarded an elegant life as one lived in accordance with their system of rituals and music. This lifestyle implied the pursuit of ra…[详细]

The Zhou people regarded an elegant life as one lived in accordance with their system of rituals and music. This lifestyle implied the pursuit of ra…[详细]

The Rites of Zhou is not merely a collection of “ritual texts,” but also a set of pragmatic political plans. It subsequently became an important…[详细]

The Sixteen Kingdoms period, while bringing devastation to the people of north China, also facilitated significant ethnic integration. Nearly all et…[详细]

The majority of these tombs are characterized by underground chamber structures with long, sloping passages. The cultural connotations embodied in t…[详细]