Discover artworks and national treasures tracing the Chinese culinary evolution from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty, ...

Efforts to preserve and display China’s imperial treasures highlight President Xi’s focus on cultural heritage.

Originally, most of the cooks and cooking staff in the Qing Palace were Manchus, but this began changing around the middle of the dynasty. Because of the social and economic developments in the ...

The emperors also gave a grand “tea banquet” in Chonghua Palace (the Hall of Double Glory) in the Forbidden City almost every year during the Qing Dynasty. Chonghua Palace was located in a ...

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with ... the former imperial palace in the heart of Beijing. “More than 100 pieces of inserts had fallen ...

the Qing dynasty defeated the previous Ming close MingThe ... She is infamous for the money she spent having the Old Summer Palace rebuilt at a time when the empire was struggling.

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum storage in China to be restored, and one day ...

The painstaking work to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past has accelerated in the past decade amid President Xi Jinping's push to preserve China's heritage and ...