Chinese ancients living 3,500 to 4,500 years ago already had many choices for meal, including millet, wheat and rice, which are still the staple food of the Chinese.
 
They also compiled calendars according to their astronomical observation, which is regarded as one of the symbols of the origin of civilization.
 
They made exquisite bronze......

    
     China has set up a national center to better protect the country's rich intangible cultural heritages, according to Friday's Beijing News. 
    "With the establishment of the center, we hope to complete a nationwide assessment to the country's intangible cultural heritages in three years," said Wang Wenzhang, president of Academy of Arts ......

 
    Only 17.5 percent of China's 400,000 discovered relic sites have been listed under government's compulsive protection, and the rest may disappear any time due to damages by nature and human activities, said a senior Chinese cultural official. 
    The relic sites, mostly unmovable earth buildings scattered in countryside, are historical and c......

 
A 3,000-year-old mummy and a 2,100-year-old gold pendant featuring Aphrodite and Eros will be among the fascinating antiquities featured at the Beijing exhibition.
Roman, Greek and Egyptian antiquities, many of them thousands of years old, are coming to China courtesy of the British Museum and its touring exhibition titled 'Treasures of th......

     Following the unprecedented excavation of cultural relics for the Three Gorges Dam project, Chinese archaeologists are once again running against the clock to dig and relocate numerous of treasures facing inundation as the massive south-to-north water diversion project breaks ground. 
    Representatives from 51 qualified archeological ag......

 










     "Beijing's construction sites contain so many cultural relics!" Qi Dong, vice director of the Cultural Relics Investigation Department of Beijing Cultural Heritage Bureau, said. 
    It is estimated that 80% of archeological excavation projects that China approve every year relate with infrastructures' constructions. Hundreds of cu......

Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2008 shows a Buddhist statue returned by Shinji Shumeikai, a Japanese religious organization, to the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. The 120.5-cm-tall statue, carved in ancient China's Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), is a state-level protected heritage. The statue was stole......

 
An exhibition in Beijing on Tibet's past and present has drawn more than 13,000 visitors since it opened on April 30, the organizers have said. 
    The exhibition at the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, comprises two parts: the History of Tibet and Feudal Serfdom in Old Tibet, and New Tibet Changing with Each Passing Day. 
    About 160 objects......

 
Chongqing Luohan Temple yesterday called on skilled craftsmen from both home and abroad for bidding for jobs rebuilding the famed 500 Luohan (arhat) statues. 




Located in Yuzhong District, the Luohan Temple was built during the 1064-1067 period and originally named Zhiping Temple. It was greatly damaged during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, but ......

China's biggest museum of farming culture is currently under construction in Guyuan City of northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
With a total investment of 38 million yuan, the museum will be the largest of its kind in China, with exhibition hall covering 3,200 square meters, according to the plan.
The museum will mainly display ag......