Today Trip Tips Shaanxi will be introducing Tang Paradise, a park designed as a life-size replica of an imperial palace and its surrounding structures and gardens, including the Tang Paradise Hotel, where you can literally live like an emperor.
Today Trip Tips Shaanxi will be introducing Tang Paradise, a park designed as a life-size replica of an imperial palace and its surrounding structures and gardens, including the Tang Paradise Hotel, where you can literally live like an emperor.
Today Trip Tips Shaanxi will be introducing Tang Paradise, a park designed as a life-size replica of an imperial palace and its surrounding structures and gardens, including the Tang Paradise Hotel, where you can literally live like an emperor.
Today Trip Tips Shaanxi will be introducing Tang Paradise, a park designed as a life-size replica of an imperial palace and its surrounding structures and gardens, including the Tang Paradise Hotel, where you can literally live like an emperor.
The sacking of Beiijing's old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, by Anglo-French forces remains a particularly sore spot for many Chinese people.
And most believe the countless relics looted at the time should be returned to China. Tracking down these priceless items is no easy matter though.
A group of Chinese archaeologists has recently returned from the United States, where they've been carrying out research into the whereabouts of the ancient pieces that disappeared in the 19th century.
China's love affair with chopsticks goes back millennia – but just how much do Chinese people know about the chopsticks they use everyday?
One veteran collector of this most Chinese of items feels the ubiquitous eating implement is not getting the attention it deserves.
Lan Xiang is considered to be the top chopstick collector in China. Over the past 31 years he has collected an astounding 2,100 pairs of these quintessentially Chinese items.
But while most people in China nowadays see a pair of chopsticks as nothing more than practical eating utensils, Lan feels chopsticks are also a unique symbol of Chinese culture. And he feel's they simply don't receive the attention they deserve.
As a testimony to just how long people in China have been using chopsticks, the pride of Lan's large collection is this exquisite silver pair made over one thousand years ago.