Ancient Chinese placed great importance on the Yellow River, considering it to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. Farmers used its waters to irrigate their rice paddies. That is why they called this river “The River of God” or the “Heavenly River.” According to legend, one fall season overabundant rainfall made all rivers run quite [...]
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Stories from Ancient China: Humbled by the Great Ocean
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ancient-china, ancient-history, chinese-culture, proverbs on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Appearance of Jade
Posted in Chinese History, tagged ancient-china, Chinese History on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From what we know, Jade first appeared on the scene in ancient China around 3500BC. This unique and beautiful material has played a central role in Chinese culture since Neolithic times when it was worked into ritual objects such as perforated disks or ‘bi’ that symbolized Heaven and rectangular tubes, or ‘cong’, that symbolized the [...]
A long long long time ago
Posted in Chinese History, tagged ancient-china, Chinese History on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The roots of ancient China and Chinese culture go back a long, long, long way. It was once thought that China’s past was mostly a collection of obscure disparate dynasties. Discoveries in the relatively recent past have shed a whole new light on this ancient land and revealed to the world a civilisation whose empires were [...]
