Kotou is a traditional Chinese practice in which a person kneels down and places their forehead on the ground.

SPRING Festival or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the biggest festival in China. It takes place during the time that the ...

In one of them, he becomes the horse itself and cries out: "The desert's sand lies white as snow; the Yanshan Mountains' moon ...

BEIJING: A delivery company in central China has sparked controversy by introducing a range of services including kneeling and kowtowing to replace in-person family visits during the Spring Festival.

Archaeologist Liu Rui from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences couldn't believe what his excavation team found last summer ...

Excavations at the Husta Bronze Age site in Wenquan county, Xinjiang, revealed one of the region's earliest Bronze Age ...

A cluster of over 200 ancient tombs containing more than 500 cultural relics has been unearthed in Changsha, Central China's ...

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Emperor Wu's pursuit of these superior breeds signaled his yearning for expansion, immortalized in the Eastern Han Dynasty's (25-220) "Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow" — a bronze ...

The term "baekseong" (百姓) originally referred to a multitude of people with surnames. However, in ancient times, possessing a surname was not easy. Thus, before the Warring States period in China (476 ...

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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.