In 2024, Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital was listed as a UNESCO ...

The exhibit attempts to trace the porcelain to Jamestown through personal chests of merchants and mariners of trading ...

The maweiqun, an underskirt made from horsehair, was so popular in the Ming dynasty that the government banned it.

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Beijing’s Forbidden City reopens the restored Hall of Mental Cultivation after a decade-long conservation project.

Zhao Peng, a heritage architecture expert, explained that the relics of Yangxin Dian faced a grim situation due to their age ...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- A key section of Beijing's famed Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City that offers a glimpse into the daily workings of power in late imperial China, reopened on Friday ...

Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxin dian) at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China. After nearly a decade of ...

This photo taken on Dec. 25, 2025 shows the plaque of the Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxin dian) at the Palace Museum in ...