Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than ...

Ancient Chinese Temple Uncovered After Four Years of Excavations. The Great Shangqing Palace burned to the ground in the 1930s, but now archaeologists know where the ancient temple once stood.

The Han River inspired the rise of the Han Dynasty and Taoism in the past, and keeps northern China hydrated today. ... Though in ancient times it was also known as the Mian River, its modern name ...

A series of ancient stone carvings in southwestern China is drawing renewed global interest, as cultural experts highlight ...

The Putuo hornbeam, a hardy tree that thrives in the damp air by the East China Sea, could be easily overlooked by visitors ...

In ancient China, although Taoist empirical mysticism favoured the development of science, Confucian ethical rationalism was antagonistic, and it could not be claimed that all through history ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...