The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally meaning “cat-foot black-and-white”) is a mammal native to central-western and south western China. The Giant Panda is a member of the Ursidae (bear) family. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though belonging to the [...]

The Longmen Grottoes or Longmen Caves are located 12 km south of present day Luoyang in Henan province China”. The grottoes, which overwhelmingly depict Buddhist subjects, are densely dotted along the two mountains: Xiangshan (to the east) and Longmenshan (to the west). The Yi River flows northward between them. For this reason, the area used to be [...]

The Terracotta Army (simplified Chinese: 兵马俑; traditional Chinese: 兵馬俑; pinyin: bīngmǎ yǒng; literally “soldier and horse funerary statues”) or the “Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses”, is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Shi Huangdi, the First Emperor of China. The figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local [...]

The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for 6,418 kilometres (3,988 mi) from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of [...]