In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

MORE than 1,500 years ago, poet Lu Kai, living in the south, sent a sprig of plum blossom to his friend Fan Ye in ...

Huo Ruijuan, deputy director and research librarian at the National Library of China, shares with China Daily the library's ...

In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Lingyin Temple and Tianzhu temples remained the main tea-producing areas around the West Lake ...

VCG. Authorities in Luoyang's Chanhe district have confirmed that a long-disputed tomb located within the Baima Temple, or ...

As a famous poem from the subsequent Tang dynasty put it: “While meat and wine go to waste ... enriching landlords and swelling tax coffers for emperors while – initially, at least – leaving peasants ...

As shophouses underwent countless changes over the years, they served as a sort of oversized painter’s canvas that recorded ...

Kashmir’s name has deep roots in myth and history. Believed to be derived from Saint Kashyapa, who drained a vast lake to ...

Beneath the runways of one of China’s busiest airports, in the ancient capital of Xi’an, lies a forgotten city of the dead.