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Chinese names can be puzzling for those not familiar with the Chinese language and culture. In the Chinese …

Physiognomy, or Chinese face reading, has a history of several thousand years in China. Most of us are …

The afterlife is an existence in which an individual’s stream of consciousness continues to live after the death …

Known as “the best bell in the world,” the Yongle Big Bell was cast during the Ming Dynasty’s …

In a time of warring empires and transoceanic voyages, sailors dreaded scurvy more than any other disease. Citrus …

In archaeometallurgy, the study of ancient metal artifacts, archaeologists have historically taken a top-down approach, meaning that the …

Just to make things clear from the beginning, pumpkin seeds are the whole seed, including the white shell, …

Since the end of the Second World War, there have been reports of the existence of giant pyramids …

One ritual that everyone observes at Japanese mealtime before partaking of the food, regardless of gender or occasion, …

The stories about Han Xin and his great forbearance have been passed down for thousands of years. There …