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 ...

Here, Arab and African merchants exchanged the spices, ivory ... When the Han Chinese overthrew the Mongols and founded the Ming dynasty in the later 14th century, they took over the fleet ...

Many historians hold that after the Ming Dynasty, China gradually closed its door to the outside, yet many foods from the South and West entered China. Chinese brought them to China not by ...

The Cold Food Festival in his honour was inspired by his death The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as ...