Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Tea's emigration out of these little green bastions of China to all points of the compass, this is a tale that needs to be told. A thousand years ago, people in southern Yunnan kept their pu’erh ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the ...

and the compass. The Great Wall of China stands as a symbol of its rich and powerful past. Even today, Chinese culture ...