Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 ... The news was announced this week at the Ming Culture Forum, held in Beijing’s Changping district, an area that ...

Three tablets of the Ming Dynasty have been brought from their ... display a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang and a collection of Ming cultural relics. Records say there were originally 100 thousand ...

In 1979, Yin became a guardian of the Guangwu Great Wall, patrolling daily to deter villagers from taking any bricks. In the ...

The fair has also dug into the history of Ditan Park. Known in English as the Temple of Earth, the park was built during the ...

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Figure caption, The map shows in yellow the cultural zones ... knew a bit about how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ruled. On the one hand ...

Southwestern China's Guizhou, often called the "Land of a Thousand Cultures," is a province of highland and mountains. As a Chinese saying goes, in Guizhou, "Every mountain is home to an ethnic group, ...

Originating in the Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 the Liangping New Year woodblock print was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006 Pas ...