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 ...

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided into musical bells, Buddhist bells, Taoist bells, imperial court bells and bells for sounding the night watches. Their ...

"Ancient Chinese mathematics is a treasure trove, concise in language yet profound in meaning. Many more insights await discovery," Zhou told Science and Technology Daily on Sunday. Do you have ...

Tea's emigration out of these little green bastions of China to all points of the compass, this is a tale ... the tea trade until the 1950s when the Chinese moved into Tibet and closed it down.