A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

The Great Wall of China started in the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Emperor Qin Shi Huang joined different walls into one big ...

All ritual vessels were made to give food and wine to the dead. "The first dynasties of China, the Shang and the Zhou, made large numbers of fine bronze containers for food, for alcohol ...

Chinese invention flourished during the Tang (618-906) and Song Dynasties (960-1279), sometimes referred to as China's golden age. Inventions during that period included movable type, gunpowder ...

The Qing were the last dynasty close dynastyA series of rulers who are all from the same family. to rule China. Founded by the Manchus close ManchuThe Manchu are a people from northeast China.

This essay is part of a series that examines Chinese belief systems, that is how people think and behave, philosophically and relgiously. In understanding Chinese belief systems, it is important not ...