China is the homeland of the peony, and Luoyang's cultivation of these flowers dates back to the Sui Dynasty (581-618). By ...

They also believe it was brought to Japan through Japanese missions sent to the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty (618-907) in China. The manuscript bears a mark showing that it was in the possession ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Rich families in Shang China would hold banquets in their family’s ancestral temple, to entertain and ask for help from the spirits of their ancestors. They would use music and dance, as well as ...

Jiangnan's prosperity was propelled by the construction of the Grand Canal, which began in the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and ...

Built in 611 during the Sui Dynasty, it is the oldest extant pavilion- style pagoda in China. The pagoda is built of a kind of hard stone produced in the area. After more than a thousand years the ...

It was the capital of nine dynasties starting from around 770 B.C. The Chinese government ... Northern Wei Dynasty and continued for more than four hundred years in the ensuing Sui and Tang ...

When the dissolute last emperor of the Sui Dynasty tries to hold an empirewide beauty contest a corrupt official takes advantage of the opportunity to divert money into his own coffers and steals ...