During the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and Liu Bang, the king of Han, were in a bitter and bloody conflict. Following years of vicious fighting, there was still no clear outcome or decisive winner. The situation remained a stalemate. As a result of the years of bitter fighting, the soldiers ...
The prophecy of Xu Fu is one of the most remarkable stories in Chinese history. It tells the tale of a 10-year-old boy who predicted the rise of Liu Bang, the Han Dynasty’s ancestor, and the Qin Dynasty’s downfall. Xu Fu was one of the greatest physiognomists to be recorded in the annals of Chinese ...
Traditional Chinese culture contains extensive and profound wisdom accumulated over thousands of years, along with many accurate prophecies. Moreover, these prophecies have mysterious knowledge that precisely predicts the future, which seems unfathomable to people even today. There have been many prophecy books, children’s rhymes, folk rhymes, or stone inscriptions circulating to foretell forthcoming good and ...
The Great Wall is known as a wonder of the world, but that was not the only miracle created by Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China (259-210 B.C.). In fact, he also constructed amazing highways in the same period of time, however, it’s not known to many people. After Qin Shi Huang unified China in ...
Even for a great general like Liu Bang, honest advice could grate on the ear. During the last year of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang (256-195 B.C.) brought his troops to fight all the way to Qin’s capital city of Xianyang. Emperor Ziying turned pale with fright. Knowing that there was no way he could ...
According to legend, the patriarch of Chinese civilization was the Yellow Emperor. The birthplace of Chinese civilization was the Yellow Earth Plateau (Loess Plateau). The cradle of the Chinese nation was the Yellow River, and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor have yellowish skin. Since ancient times, the color yellow has been an integral part ...
Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor in China and his achievements were outstanding. He ended the war among kingdoms and realized the first great unification in Chinese history. He unified measurements and writing, built the Great Wall to resist foreign invasions, and thus earned his title as the great emperor. The First Emperor had ...
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional holiday in China that dates back almost 2,000 years. Since 2008, the festival has been a public holiday. The festival was created to honor an ancient hero. But now, one of the most popular activities held during the festival, dragon boat racing, has become a popular international sport ...
Scientists in China have aligned fragments of bamboo with Chinese calligraphic writing on it to recreate a mathematical device used 2,300 years ago, making it the world’s first known multiplication table. In 2008, researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing received almost 2,500 decrepit bamboo strips from a donor, who had bought them at a market ...
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