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3000-Year-Old Relics Found in Shandong

As the sea gets rough, we head inland to Daxinzhuang village of east China’s Shandong province, where 14 bronze relics from the Shang Dynasty some 3,000 years ago have been found. The find, which was made earlier this year, has great archeological significance. All 14 pieces are found in tomb No.139 at the site. Among [...]

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Wuqiao: Home of Chinese Acrobatics

Chinese acrobatics has a very long history and is an excellent and precious cultural legacy of the Chinese nation. There are a lot of acrobatics village in China, e.g. Liaocheng of Shandong Province, Yancheng of Jiangsu Province, Puyang of Henan Province, Tianmen of Hubei Province, Guangde of Anhui Province, Wuqing of Tianjin City, Wuqiao, Suning [...]

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Written Slips of Qin

Qinjian(Written Slips of Qin) is the collective name for the presently available literature from the Qin State in the Warring States Period (475-221BC) and from the subsequent Qin Dynasty (221-206BC). At that time, paper had not been invented yet and bamboo and wood slips were used for writing. The discovery of Qinjian is greatly important [...]

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