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

The well-developed academy system provided Jiangxi with a significant educational advantage, producing many Jinshi scholars ...

Ancient Chinese genre painting as a unique art form has been endowed with a relatively broad developing space since the Song Dynasty.

Items from Nanhai No 1, which sank during the Southern Song dynasty and was found in 1987, tell us about life in the past.

Latte art has got nothing on the ancient Chinese art of drawing ... to Japan by a zen master who had visited China during its prosperous Song dynasty (AD960-1279) to study Buddhism, but ended ...

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

Bingxi as a form of performance for the court began in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and reached its peak during Qing (1644-1911). Each year after the winter solstice (in late December), grand ice ...