he had reigned for 50 years (140 BC-87 BC), being one of the longest-reigning emperors in China 's history. During the reign of Emperor Wu Di, the Han Dynasty was at the height of its power and ...

At first, the ling was baked out of pottery ... the Eastern Han Dynasty said, "The zhong (bell) is the sound of the Autumn Equinox. All crops have been zhong (cultivated)." In Chinese, zhong ...

Students at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in China embarked on a project to recreate a rice dish from an ancient ...

Chinese archaeologists ... deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first discovery of its kind from the era. The scales were found in China’s eastern province of ...

Chinese university students recreate a 2,000-year-old rice dish using an ancient manuscript found in a Han Dynasty tomb.

In this programme, we are in Han Dynasty China, two thousand years ago, exploring the giving of Imperial gifts - an activity which straddles the murky boundary between diplomacy and bribery.

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...