Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

A low-ranking soldier wears his hair tied in a topknot ... Shortly after the emperor’s death, the Qin dynasty fell apart, to be replaced by the Han. In the turmoil of that transition, there ...

On May 30, a 30-year-old man identified only as Sun was visiting the Xi'an museum that houses China's famous Terracotta Army ...

Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers by Zhou Fang of the Tang Dynasty represents one of the peaks in the history of ancient figure paintings, as Yang Qi writes in his recent book on Chinese ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] The practice of wearing velvet flowers is believed to date to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). They were sent to imperial palaces as items of tribute during the reign of Wu ...

The 30-year-old man, identified only by his surname Sun, launched himself over guardrails and a protective netting at the ...

A painted pottery figurine depicting two women holding hands, housed at the Luoyang Museum in Henan province, has recently gained widespread attention online. The artefact, dating back over 1,500 ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

As many readers might have guessed, Cuju rules only allowed players to strike the ball—made of leather stuffed with feathers and hair—with their feet ... Thus, during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), ...

The Qin dynasty terracotta warriors from Emperor Qin Shihuang’s tomb are some of the most significant and well-known Chinese relics, and now there’s a chance to see part of the 8,000-strong ...

The flower is made from a stem of the medicinal tongcao plant (rice paper plant) by the same delicate art that once adorned Qin ... Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). "I fix it onto modern hair accessories ...