traditional chinese culture

For nearly a decade, a Chinese merchant managed a business whose owner had gone home and could not …

During the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns of the Qing Dynasty, a prominent court minister named Tao Shu emerged …

What prevents us from discovering new possibilities and creating something better is often not an obstacle in the …

Disasters can arrive with little warning. Sometimes, however, signs of danger appear before catastrophe strikes — and survival …

One of the best-known legends from Mianshan, a mountain in central China’s Shanxi Province, tells of a monk …

One day in the fourth year of the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 630), Emperor Taizong, …

Luo Lun (courtesy name Yizheng) was a native of Yongfeng in Ji’an during the Ming Dynasty. From an …

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang both returned home at the height of worldly success. Xiang Yu seemed determined …

In the winter of 910, a stretch of road outside a village near present-day Hangzhou was transformed overnight. …

The well-known Chinese saying, “When water is too clear, there are no fish; when a person scrutinizes too …