The Winter Palace consisting of the Yuanming Garden，Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden was completed after 150 years of efforts in...
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Imperial gardens are the earliest Chinese classical gardens. There were imperial gardens in almost all dynasties. They belonged exclusively to...
China's classical gardens are environments for sightseeing integrating natural and artificial landscapes，plants and architecture and combining the essence of architecture，painting，literature...
According to the "Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin"of the Ming Dynasty unearthed in...
Chinese Islamic buildings can be classified into two types:one is Hui mosques and imams'tombs（gongbei）all over the country，mostly Han-style buildings rebuilt...
Buddhist temples as the main type of Chinese Buddhist architecture are places where Buddha statues are enshrined, Buddhist ceremonies are...
Taoism，China's indigenous religion，originated from folk witchery and art of seeking immortality.There were pills of immortality in the Warring States Period，the...
Chinese grottoes originated from Indian grotto temples.This type of Buddhist architecture spread to China with Buddhism around the Southern and...
Pagodas are a kind of ancient Buddhist buildings. The earliest pagoda in ancient India was the "stupa"(a Sanskrit word) housing...
In the 2nd century BC，Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty（on the throne from 140 BC to 87 BC）dispatched Zhang Qian...
The word "piyong"originated in the Zhou Dynasty. According to historica materials, the school of the son of the heaven was...
Confucian Temples In the Spring and Autumn Period, thinker and educationist Confucius(with the given name of Qiu and the courtesy...
Ancient Chinese mainly believed in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. As the saying goes, they "ruled the country with Confucianism, cultivated...
There were 50 to 60 dynasties in Chinese history, including legendary ones, documented ones, unified ones and segmented ones. In...
Worshipping rites were an important political system of Chinese slave andfeudal dynasties. Worshipping ceremonies included large-scale, medium-scale and small-scale ceremonies,...
We can say palace buildings are the most important type of Chinese ancient architecture. In the long period of Chinese...
Ancient China's emperors were called "sons of heaven"with supreme power. The architectural types of palaces, temples and tombs, the grandest...
The Great Wall is one of the greatest architectural projects in China's history and the greatest national defense project in...
Frequent occurrence of war in ancient China gave rise to the defense works of city walls and trenches, and thus...
Local cities were various localities' strongholds of the imperial court's political and military rule and were often local economic and...