ONCE a restricted site for access to the ordinary during the Chinese Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zijincheng, which translates to ...

The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ... Ever since the Tang Dynasty there has been a saying in China that tea is above wine. This saying was embodied in ...

TOKYO, May 2 (Xinhua) -- An employee at Japan's Imperial Palace has been dismissed for allegedly stealing cash totaling 3.6 million yen (about 24,900 U.S. dollars) set aside for personal expenses for ...

BEIJING - Under a cerulean Beijing sky, dozens of international journalists, including myself, visited the Forbidden City— a ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

the raw materials from Northeast China were the ones used in imperial meals. The eating habits and cooking of the Manchu nationality dominated the imperial meals of the Qing Palace. The valuable ...

My 48-hour adventure in Beijing! A city bustling with history, culture, and mouth-watering food. From scaling the ancient ...

In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and ... which sought to grind out all vestiges of China’s imperial past. With the abandonment in recent years of ...