Excavations on Mount Zion recently revealed a rare Ming-era porceline with 'Forever we will guard the eternal spring,' ...

The surviving oracle bones are the earliest existing form of Chinese writing. Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of ...

An exhibition at the China National Academy of Painting sheds light on the recent developments in studying ancient ke tie pieces, displaying more than 360 works by calligraphers at prestigious museums ...

There is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to ...

Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east ... while poets were moved by its very presence. Writing in the eighth century, Zhang Ji describes a temple on the canal whose “ringing bell ...

One of them has been around for centuries: writing riddles on the sides of lanterns ... According to Pak, the Chinese have been celebrating the yearly autumn harvest since the Shang dynasty ...