The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

The dragon dance is a traditional performance and ceremony in China. It is usually performed during the Lunar New Year and ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

One of the most famous Chinese folk tales is the “Legend of the White Snake.” Although early versions of the myth date back ...

Statue of a 'foreign groom,' Tang dynasty (618-907), in the exhibition 'Tang China. A Cosmopolitan Dynasty (7th-10th century)' at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Art, Paris. MUSÉE DE LUOYANG ...

When the climate became arid after 14 CE, famine and instances of cannibalism increased. Read more at straitstimes.com.