As Spring Festival approaches, Caoxian county in Heze, Shandong province, is experiencing a consumer boom fueled by the ...

Xu Ye’er visits Zishou Temple in North China’s Shanxi Province, an architecture being originally built in Tang Dynasty ...

Although some scholars have labeled the early Ming Dynasty as a proto-liberal state, they are mistaken. The Ming governance ...

A 15th-century Chinese fashion trend, the horsehair skirt (maweiqun), gained immense popularity, creating voluminous silhouettes for both men and women. Its widespread adoption led to horsehair theft, ...

From auspicious horse-themed phrases and couplets to whether your luck is in, check out ourYear of the Horse 2026 series to discover all you need to know about the coming Lunar New Year. The crinoline ...

When Western readers encounter stories about "growing Chinese nationalism", they do not envision progressive, ...

Fashion bans aren’t exactly a modern invention. Long before governments debated dress codes and trends, the Ming dynasty found itself cracking down on a surprising culprit: a skirt made of horsehair.

Temporary dams (left) near the confluence of the Min and Jin Rivers in China’s Sichuan Province have allowed archaeologists to excavate more than 76,000 artifacts. Many of these artifacts belonged to ...