Chinese music goes as far back as Chinese civilization and is highly distinctive from its western counterparts. Chinese musical instruments...
Chinese Literature and Arts
During the late Northern Song Dynasty, the heroes of grasslands and swamps, who could no longer bear the cruel oppression...
Toward the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty China was war-stricken. Rival warlords viciously fought for the throne until three...
China's 5, 000-year civilization gave birth to a glorious culture which produced many outstanding masterpieces of classical literary work such...
Traditional Chinese musical instruments can be mainly classified into three categories:sare string, wind and percussion. Their representative instruments are the...
Zheng Banqiao (AD 1693-1765) was an ancient Chinese calligraphy and painter, good at bamboo, stone and orchids His interesting paintings...
China, an ancient civilization with thousands of years of continuous history, has left many cultural relics. Archaeological excavations have revealed...
Handicrafts Indeed you can tell a lot about a nation from its handicrafts. The handicraft industry at its very beginningmarked...
“Music”originated from the common people and could best express their feelings. Chinese ancestors understood the importance of music in the...
Though the Yuan lasted only a period of 97 years，during this period of Mongol rule，there were great developments and evolution...
The Tang was followed by a long period of the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms（907-960），which made no important literary...
The Tang Dynasty is considered by modern Chinese scholars as the golden age of Chinese poetry，during which time poetry reached...
The Sui Dynasty was right before the Tang Dynasty，but it was too short a period to have important literary achievements.The...
The Southern and Northern Dynasties were known for folk songs.However，long period of confrontation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties led...
Tao Yuanming（C.365-427），original name Tao Qian，was a great poet of reclusion in the Eastern Jin.He once served as a minor official...
Jian'an（196-220）is originally the era name of Emperor Xian（181-234）of the Eastern Han Dynasty.Jian'an Poetry refers to the poems created in the...
The most notable achievement in poetry was Yuefu poetry，a splendid benchmark in the history of Chinese poetry.Another remarkable achievement is...
During this period of constant military strife，we can observe a further development of all science fields，such as agriculture，mechanical manufacture，mathematics and...
Zhoubi Suanjing（The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven）was essentially an astronomy text，thought to have been...
Zhang Heng（78-139）was a multitalented scientist and also a minister in the government.His most important invention was the seismograph，used to detect...