Originally, the Chinese character si, meaning temple, stood for an official building that, in ancient China, ranked second only to the emperor's imperial palace. To show his respect for Buddhism ...

Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east ... Writing in the eighth century, Zhang Ji describes a temple on the canal whose “ringing bell reaches my boat at midnight.” ...

[Photo by JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY] For 700 years, Yongle Palace, a Taoist temple in Ruicheng ... director of Shanxi provincial institute for protection and research of ancient architecture, painted ...

The cutting-edge VR and AR technologies enable visitors to walk through ancient Niya's bustling bazaar to see and touch ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has completed the restoration of a more than 1,000-year-old brick temple on the north side of Phnom Krom Temple in the UNESCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park, ...