A restoration is more than a new coat of paint to freshen up a relic’s appearance. This was underlined in China’s third list of 10 best cultural relic restoration projects – including the thousand-armed Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) in Dazu, Chongqing municipality – recently released by a government agency. On International Day on Monuments and Sites, the […]
Tsinoys off to Quanzhou, Fujian province to visit ancestral homes and villages should drop by Qingjing Mosque 清淨寺on Tumen Street, one of China’s oldest mosques. A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims. Also known as Masjid al-Ashab, Qingjing Mosque was built 1,010 years ago during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) in the Arabian […]
Chinese and Canadian researchers have discovered a new species of troodontid, a family of bird-like dinosaurs. The paleontologists have described the Jianianhualong tengi genus et species nova as a giant chicken with teeth. The fossil is from the Lower Cretaceous period, between 146 million and 100 million years ago. It was found in northeast China’s […]
Acupuncture is not just for people. It is being used to treat animals – specifically pet dogs, cats and rabbits – as well in Guanshang Animal Hospital in Beijing. At present, it is used mainly to treat paralysis, limb weakness, and pain management, in pets. Media reports that treatment costs RMB30 (P216) for every acupoint. […]
A feud that began 300 years ago is finally over, and descendants from the feuding ancestors may now intermarry… if they so wish. A ceremony was held early this month to mark the reconciliation between the villages of Wushan and Yuepu in Quanzhou City, in southeastern China’s Fujian province. A dispute had erupted between the […]
Breweries in Beijing and Hong Kong are trying to resurrect a beer recipe from 5,000 years ago. Attempts of the two breweries – Jing A from Beijing and Mengshen from Hong Kong – are based on archaeological findings of an ancient formula for beer. The drink was created in an ancient brew house, part of […]
An ancient stone pagoda has finally returned to North China’s Shanxi province after it was stolen from Dengyu village in 1998, nearly 20 years ago. The 1,300-year-old Dengyu Stone Tower dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and boasts exquisite Buddhist sculpture with beautiful colors and four faces of Buddhist images. The ancient pagoda was […]
On a warm and humid spring day in Southern China’s Guangzhou, a routine performance of the Yueju Opera (粤劇) is staged at the Tongle Restaurant – the only surviving tea house devoted to the traditional performing art form in Guangdong province’s capital city. When the play reached its climax, some audience members approached the stage […]
The earliest ancestors of modern humans may have evolved in central China, not North Africa, as previously thought. Remote ancestors of humans may have lived 45 million years ago in Henan, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Yunnan provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. This theory is based on discovery of prehistoric Eosimiid primate fossils between 1985-1994, which […]
China has unveiled plans for Xiongan New Area, an economic zone about 100 kilometers south of Beijing. It will span Xiongxian, Rongcheng and Anxin counties in Hebei province, eventually covering 2,000 sq km. By comparison, Metro Manila is 613 sq km. Hebei says it welcomes international bids to plan and design the new urban area’s […]