A Shang dynasty tripod cauldron, from the 11th century B.C ... Contact with the Islamic world also invigorated Chinese bronzes with new kinds of patterning and inlay. The Japanese work is ...

One of the artifacts on exhibition is the tripod cauldron Shi Yin Li from the Palace Museum in Beijing. It is known as the largest vessel of its kind that still exists today. Wang Tao, curator of ...

“Indulging in things destroys the will,” a Chinese proverb says ... cooked and offered to the ancestors in different bronze tripods. Similarly, cooked grains and vegetables were placed ...

The Chinese Communist Party state has conducted ... Lighting the Olympic cauldron is a central ritual for each opening ceremony, as hosts invent ever more spectacular ways to ignite the flame ...

BEIJING, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The Beijing Winter Games opened on Friday night in a snow- and ice themed ceremony at the Bird's Nest stadium that concluded with the cauldron lit by two young Chinese ...

One of China’s top diplomats on Saturday hailed the involvement of young Chinese athletes in the Beijing Winter Games, including Uyghur skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, who lit the Olympic cauldron ...