A 600-year-old Chinese teapot made for a Ming Dynasty Emperor has sold for £11million. The nine-inch imperial blue and white ewer was made for Yongle Emperor Zhu Di during his reign between 1402 ...

After eleven years of work, the Ming Code was expanded in 1509 by Grand Secretary Li Dongyang and official Shen Shixing, who added two works: Da-Ming Huidian (“Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty”) ...

Tourists stroll around the entrance to the imperial Changling Tomb, one of the tombs of the 13 Mausoleums of the Ming Dynasty ...

Within Chinese thinking, the number 13 is not an inauspicious omen, except in the case of the Ming Dynasty imperial family. NI HAO from China E-ZINE / Editors Picks ...

"Among all unearthed tombs of Ming princes of Shu, it's the first time remains of architecture were discovered in front of ...

The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ...

The announcement was made during the 2024 Ming Dynasty Culture Forum. Construction on the Ming Tombs, the burial grounds of 13 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) emperors, began in 1409 during the reign of ...

Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from shipwrecks dating back to the Ming Dynasty — from 1368-1644 — including porcelain and pottery, copper coins, and deer antlers, China’s ...

Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China's Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site. Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof ...