Ancient China’s laws were extremely strict, where even crying in public or poor handwriting could lead to harsh punishments.

An ancient Chinese exercise called baduanjin could help lower blood pressure as effectively as some medications, according to ...

Research based on historical inscriptions suggests that temperatures in ancient China often climbed to between 40 and 43 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

An ancient Chinese exercise routine may be just as powerful as a daily brisk walk for lowering blood pressure — without ...

Official forms of discipline in imperial China could see lawbreakers’ hands cut off; eyebrows shaved or faces tattooed.

From shaving off eyebrows for shedding tears to forcing exam candidates with bad handwriting to drink ink, imperial laws were ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously thought ...

Learn how a 2,200-year-old Chinese feather decoration was linked to five bird species and possibly made with glue from an ...

Fung Ming-chu (2nd L), former director of the Taipei Palace Museum, visits the Gansu Provincial Library in Lanzhou, Northwest ...