Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), ...
The Ming and Qing imperial tombs are natural sites modified by human influence, carefully chosen according to the principles of geomancy (Fengshui) to house numerous buildings of traditional ...
A boat sails on the Apeng River near the Zhuoshui ancient town in Qianjiang District, southwest China's Chongqing ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
The Dingcun Cultural Exhibition Hall displays Ming and Qing dynasty dwellings in Dingcun village, a key culture relic protection site in China. The dwellings are a folk house building group built ...
Glazed tiles were important building materials that added a special luster to China's classical architecture. Though they appeared more than a thousand years ago as building materials, glazed tiles ...
GEORGE TOWN: The disposal of food containers and packaging materials during Qing Ming Festival (Chinese All Souls’ Day) has lessened over the years, according to Penang United Hokkien Cemeteries (UHC) ...
East will meet West this weekend at two Brooklyn graveyards as religious holidays coincide. Easter falls this year around the same time as Qing Ming, the Chinese Buddhist’s Tomb-Sweeping Day — which ...