（1）Food and rank In the animal kingdom，the distribution of food is based on rank.It naturally follows that there is a...
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（1）Waste not，want not As the art of cooking evolved over the ages，the Chinese ancestors boldly experimented with available foodstuffs in...
A special gallery of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC is devoted to an exhibition of Chinese cooking...
The following year, Temujin personally commanded a powerful army of 200,000 to march west. After capturing Otrar, the Mongols massacred...
No sooner had the Mongol Empire been established than it began its territorial expansion, and the Western Xia Kingdom of...
Portrait of Genghis Khan (1162-1227) cenghis Khan, born Temujin, was the founder ofthe Mongol Empire--the largest contiguousempire in history. Reverently...
Aguda resolved on resisting the oppression of the Liao Dynasty. In the ninth lunar month of 1114, he led some...
When the Song Dynasty was first established, the country was still in a situation of disunity. There were the State...
After depriving the generals of their commands, Zhao Kuangyin then spearheaded the attackon local military governors. During the Tang Dynasty,...
Pattern identification provides the theoretical basis for diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine.Pattern identification holistically determines diagnosis and treatment...
A Porcelain Flowerpot Produced by the Junzhou Kiln，the song Dynasty The Junzhou kiln was noted for its unique technique of“glaze...
The concept of holism, the idea that all aspects of Creation form a unified whole and are governed by the...
Since Zhu Wen(852-912)--who originally served under Huang Chao, leader of a peasant uprising starting in 875, but later surrendered--toppled the...
Five Elements theory, like Yin-Yang theory, is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese philosophy. Five Elements theory differentiates all things into...
The concept of Yin and Yang underlies both traditional Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Observing that all natural phenomena...
A silver Pot Decorated with Fish-scale Paterns, the Liao Dynasty In the second lunar month of 916 Yeli Abaoji followed...
In traditional Chinese medicine, form and spirit refer to the physical structure and vital essence of the human body, and...
Daoism holds that Qi is the source of the life force and the material foundation of life.The classic Daoist practice...
From then on Wu Zetian began to lay bare her political ambition. At first she allied herself with Wang to...
Over two millennia ago, traditional Chinese medicine borrowed extensively from the philosophical discourse of the time in an attempt to...