Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

When the Han Chinese overthrew the Mongols and founded the Ming dynasty in the later 14th century, they took over the fleet and an already extensive trade network. The enterprising spirit of the ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003 ... the tombs follow the precepts of traditional Chinese geomancy and ...

The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as hanshi jie, is a traditional Chinese ... Tang dynasty (AD618-907), when it was consolidated into the more well-known Ching Ming ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about ... The researchers, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming Institute of Zoology, and Yunnan Agricultural ...