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.

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 ...