Read on for more! Qingtuan is a traditional Chinese snack made from sticky rice four, rice flour, mugwort, different fillings, and a few other ingredients. The star ingredient is mugwort ...

They used white paper as the background, pasted the red-paper-cut design of five poisonous plants and gourds as the subject, and then put a bunch of green Chinese mugwort in each side. The red ...

Mugwort is a weed-like plant with roots in ancient Chinese and European medicine. During the Middle Ages, people called it the “mother of herbs.” Although it’s still in use today as an herb ...

The use of ink in China has been documented by ancient historians since the period before the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) when ...

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it's sometimes used to induce labor. Artemisinin is thought to have anti-cancer properties, though this has yet to be proven. In TCM, mugwort is used in the ...

CHINA DAILY When Wei Guangyao presents plates of rock sugar, mugwort and Sichuan peppercorn ... multiple traditional Chinese medicines, ranging from borneol and musk, are part of the classified ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Chinese cabbages are available all year, look for fresh, firm heads that feel heavy for their size. Tiny black flecks on the leaves are normal and harmless. Reject heads that look wilted, limp or ...

China’s property crisis is expected to worsen as new home sales plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned ...

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is no ordinary collection of policy wonks. In China’s political hierarchy it has the status of a government ministry. It has thousands of staff ...