Insects have long held an esteemed status in Asian cultures. Here’s how one particularly boisterous insect species is rumored ...

The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the Song Mausoleums, are in western Gongxian County, Henan Province. Except for Emperor Hui Zong, named Zhao Ji (1082-1135), and Qin ...

"Song dynasty diancha really values the purity, or whiteness, of the tea foam," Zhu says. The foam is also much thicker than that of matcha, which only requires brief whisking.

Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and organized by the School of Chinese Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and CAFA Art Museum.

The findings show that China's porcelain 'dual formula' technology can be traced back to the earlier Western Xia Dynasty.

This scene is inspired by the famous painting "Ruihe Tu" by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Zhao Ji. "Ruihe Tu" depicts a scene of a group of cranes flying over the palace in ...

This is Kaifeng City, Henan Province. In A.D. 960, Zhao Kuangyin established the Song (宋) Dynasty and made this place the national capital. In the ensuing 160 years and more, Kaifeng remained the ...

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Porcelain wares unearthed in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which were produced nearly 1,000 years ago ...

The temple no longer exists. According to historical accounts of Dingzhou, during the Northern Song Dynasty a Buddhist monk, Hui Neng, of Kaiyuan Temple went on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist ...

A lot changed during the nearly two-year gap between ‘Love Gun’ and the next Kiss studio album, ‘Dynasty,’ and while the record sounds fragmented and somewhat neutered as a result ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...