Ghost marriages in China are ancient rituals where the dead are wed — sometimes to the living — to ensure companionship in ...

Here, in a village of stone huts set amongst dense mangrove trees, Kristof met a number of elderly men who told him that they were descendants of Chinese sailors, shipwrecked on Pate many ...

Xuewen told the Chinese state-owned magazine Sixth Tone. Tiankeng must also have steep sides and rivers — or the ghosts of ancient rivers — flowing along the bottom, Xuewen said. At Xiaozhai ...

“This is the first exhibition to prominently feature ancient Chinese picnic sets,” Chiang says. “Most people don’t pay any serious attention to picnic boxes because picnics were not as see ...

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided into musical ... to draw the devotion of worshippers and the awe of ghosts and gods." In those days, bells served as musical ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...

The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...