Xi'an City Wall was built in the 14th century by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Emperor of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a military defense system. Now it is one of the oldest and best-preserved Chinese ...

FUZHOU – For Japanese historian Kenichi Uezato, the coastal town of Meihua in Fuzhou, Fujian province, serves as a deep reminder of the people-to-people friendship between Fujian and Ryukyu that has ...

Unearthed in Luzhou in 1986, the artefactis a nationally treasured first-class cultural relic and is regarded as the perfect combination of liquor culture and art in Luzhou. The warmer weighs 9 ...

The Xiangfen county public security bureau in North China’s Shanxi Province, on Tuesday discovered information circulating online about “someone selling ancient city wall bricks from the Ming ...

At the Harmony of Figures and Spirits exhibition, attention was drawn to a juxtaposition of two distinctively different portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty: One by court painters ...

When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming empire, the ambitious emperor initially located the imperial city in his hometown in today's Fengyang county, Anhui province. But construction on the grand ...

An archaeological excavation at the ruins of the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in Nanjing, East China's ...

Zhu Yuanzhang ranked Li Wenzhong as the fourth statesman of great merit in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, as during the early stages of the dynasty, he continued to pacify rebels, helping to ...

Fengyang was the birthplace of Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). During Zhu's rule, he brought thousands of people from across China to Fengyang, in order to ...

When I first heard that there was a dim sum cart restaurant in Albuquerque, I was pleasantly surprised. One of the things I miss from my start-up time in San Francisco was dim sum restaurants ...

In the Ming Dynasty, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang issued a ban on the production of compressed tea in 1391. This decree led to the abandonment of compressed tea in China.