L unar New Year is an important annual holiday celebrated by many people of Asian descent around the world. This year, Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, begins on Fe ...

These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty is also referred to after ... with beautiful stylized dragon and legendary animal patterns inscribed on its four sides, is a rare bronze ...

MICHAEL WOOD:'That they used dragon bones to look into the future. MICHAEL WOOD:'And that they got toothache just like us.' Michael Wood explains how we know about the Shang dynasty. Oracle bones ...

They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to circa 1050 ... villagers near Anyang unearthed oracle bones they thought were "dragon bones" and large numbers were ground-up for ...

For a long time before the 20th century, the Chinese used animal fossils as medicine, referring to such bones as long gu, or “dragon bones”. According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM ...

A pattern of xuanwu, a Chinese mythical creature depicted as a snake and a tortoise on an eaves tile from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). The symbolic turquoise inlaid bronze plaques unearthed from ...

STORYTELLER:Yellow Dragon, who had a very long tail ... just before the start of the Shang dynasty. This clip is from the BBC series The Story of China. A series of videos exploring the stories ...

The exhibited objects span history from the late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th-11th century ... In Chinese culture, the snake is revered as a "little dragon" — one of the primal forms from which ...