Sixteen emperors ruled China during the Ming dynasty, which lasted from 1368 to 1644. Of those, 13 are interred in an extensive burial complex near the base of a mountain range on the outskirts of ...

After defeating the Mongol Empire in 1368 and establishing the Ming dynasty, the Chinese emperor attempted to reestablish the tribute relationship with neighboring states. In 1402, during a ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

Some famous ancient Buddhist temples and tombs are found here. Xiaoling is the mausoleum of the first Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. It is one of the largest imperial mausoleums existing in ...

A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th ... The porcelain jars, made for the Jiajing Emperor, sparked a 20-minute bidding war among more than 10 collectors before eventually ...

The fair has also dug into the history of Ditan Park. Known in English as the Temple of Earth, the park was built during the ...

It began in 1644 when the Manchu people from the North overthrew the ruling Ming dynasty and established their capital in Beijing. To ease their transition into power, the first Qing emperor ...

Constructed over a period of 2,000 years, the stone sentry actually consists of many great walls, some dating back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor ... from the Ming dynasty from ...

During the Ming Dynasty, Xi'an was an important military ... It is a joint tomb of Han Jingdi, the emperor of Jing, an emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 8 AD) and his empress Wang.

Falling on April 5 this year, Ching Ming, also called the tomb-sweeping ... dates back more than 2,500 years to the Zhou dynasty. At the time, emperors would offer sacrifices to their ancestors ...

Her first book, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early ... Her second book, In Death as in Life: A Material History of Ming Dynasty Tombs (in progress), moves away from the ...