Insects have long held an esteemed status in Asian cultures. Here’s how one particularly boisterous insect species is rumored ...

The imperial tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), the Song Mausoleums, are in western Gongxian County, Henan Province. Except for Emperor Hui Zong, named Zhao Ji (1082-1135), and Qin ...

The findings show that China's porcelain 'dual formula' technology can be traced back to the earlier Western Xia Dynasty.

"Song dynasty diancha really values the purity, or whiteness, of the tea foam," Zhu says. The foam is also much thicker than that of matcha, which only requires brief whisking.

Porcelain wares unearthed in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which were produced nearly 1,000 years ago ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...

The temple no longer exists. According to historical accounts of Dingzhou, during the Northern Song Dynasty a Buddhist monk, Hui Neng, of Kaiyuan Temple went on a pilgrimage to India for Buddhist ...

According to the exhibition guide, a trade system centered on Guangzhou Port (the city being the capital of Guangdong ...

Under Genghis Khan, the Mongolian army pushes west to destroy the Jin Dynasty, setting its sights on the Song Dynasty next. Amid internal conflicts ...

Lee Hiu Wai, the assistant curator at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center, introduces a greenish yellow glazed porcelain jar with six handles and a dragon design from the Song Dynasty (960 ...