The Forbidden City is no relic; it is a living testament to cultural resilience. The elaborate carvings, vivid hues, and symbolic designs throughout the Forbidden City reflect the significance of ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.

The creation from Huo Tingxiao, art director on such movies as ‘Farewell My Concubine,’ features ... of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element ...

It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine ...

Now 28, and alternately based in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Tan is starring in Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Forbidden City: Portrait Of An Empress, which was first commissioned by the ...

During this shot, we get a rough layout of the entire castle, and it resembles the Forbidden City situated in China ... An image of a concubine shown in the anime series (Image via OLM and ...

A district west of the Forbidden City formed a hub for the transportation of coal ... (At this point, he had one consort, a concubine.) The candidates, teenage girls, had to be Manchu or Mongol; the ...

ABSTRACT: Filigree craft is a traditional metal handicraft technique, which is worthy of continuous practice and inheritance by contemporary artists and designers, while in the process of inheritance, ...

Wu Zetian was a fifth-grade concubine in the Chinese royal harem in the 7th century ... The Ashokan edicts were followed and the slaughter of animals and even catching fish were forbidden. A new Zhou ...

The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places ... closely connected to Empress Dowager Cixi – a former royal concubine who controlled China ruthlessly for almost 50 years until ...

138 CE), who founded a city in memory of his beloved Antinous and even had him deified. Since Roman men often indulged in extramarital sex, it might be assumed that Roman marriage was all duty and ...