The Four Beauties
If you’ve ever strolled through the aisles of a Chinese supermarket, you may have come across ornately crafted tin boxes with four Chinese women on the lid. These are the “Four...
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Monkey King Defeats the Demon - From Journey to the West
The story of the Monkey King defeating the White Bone Demon, which comes from Journey...
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A Vanished Dream
This legend from the early Tang dynasty tells of a young scholar named Lu Sheng who...
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Splitting the Mountain
This Chinese legend begins with forbidden love between a goddess and a mortal, and ends...
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Houyi and Chang'e - the Goddess of the Moon
Legends are like the shifting sands of a desert—forever changing, hard to grasp....
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The Good-Bad Monk Lu Zhishen
The main characters in the classic Chinese novel Outlaws of the Marsh are 108...
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Wu Song Beats the Tiger
Wu Song is a hero from the classic Chinese novel Outlaws of the Marsh who killed a...
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Outlaws of the Marsh
One of China’s four literary classics, Outlaws of the Marsh (a.k.a Water Margin...
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Journey to the West
One of the four classics of Chinese literature, Journey to the West was written in the...
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The Udumbara Flower
According to Buddhist scriptures, the udumbara is a sacred flower that comes from the...
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The Mogao Caves of Dunhuang
Along the Silk Road, just outside the town of Dunhuang in western China, lie the Mogao...
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Monk Ji Gong
One of China's most eccentric and colorful monks, Ji Gong, also known as "Crazy Ji,"...
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The Terracotta Warriors
Emperor Qin Shihuang, founder of China’s first united dynasty, built himself a...
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The Great General Han Xin
Han Xin was one of China’s most outstanding military strategists, famous for...
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The Great General Yue Fei
Yue Fei is one of China’s most celebrated generals. Born at the end of the...
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