Technicians excavate the Nestorian church at the Tangchaodun site in Qitai county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2022. [Photo provided to China Daily] At a crossroads of the ancient world, ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

Food history is a fascinating topic that often leads to heated debate. There is such a visceral connection to the foods we grow up eating, the foods of our cultures, that to question their origins ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

The Lantern Festival Night — to the tune of Green Jade Table remains one of the most iconic poems celebrating Lantern ...

Abstract: In recent years, deep learning-based methods have achieved great success in handwritten Chinese character recognition, however, not many studies have been conducted on handwritten Chinese ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.

In addition to cycling through 12 animals each year, the Chinese zodiac also rotates between the five traditional Chinese elements—earth, wood, fire, metal and water. A lantern set of horses during a ...

Canadian passport holders can travel to China visa-free starting Tuesday until the end of 2026, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Sunday — marking another step in Canada's ...

A Chinese king’s infatuation with a woman was seen as the reason that a golden age collapsed. Evidence suggests climate change and internal strife played bigger roles. Researchers digging to unearth ...