The Cold Food Festival in his honour was inspired by his death The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as hanshi jie, is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the 105th day ...

He also captured Outer Mongolia, Taiwan and took control ... knew a bit about how the Ming empire worked. Historians have different views about how the Qing dynasty ruled. On the one hand, some ...

Six countries have claims to parts of the sea -- China, Taiwan, Vietnam ... said Thursday. China's Ming dynasty, which stretched from 1368-1644, was "a period of cultural restoration and expansion ...

Taiwanese opera star Sun Tsui-feng (孫翠鳳) is to play a modern-day criminal who knows little about the traditional art form in a new comedy adaptation of the folk legend Lord Jiaqing and the Journey to ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003. The Three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning Province ...

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 ...

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 ...