In Daoism, China’s indigenous religion ... that reaching the gourd at the center of the huluwen board symbolizes the winner entering the realm of immortals. The centerpiece can also point to other ...

The Lunar New Year begins every 12 years on Jan. 29, kicking off more than two weeks of parties, customs and copious feasts.

Colourful costumes and high hopes at Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, as devotees burn first incense sticks of Year of the Snake.

[Photo by JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY] For 700 years, Yongle Palace, a Taoist temple in Ruicheng, Shanxi province, stood near the Yellow River, where it witnessed the seasons wax and wane. As its glory ...

The Quanzhen School, which advocates a mixture of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, was formed during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), and grew in influence as people sought comfort from chaos.

In ancient Chinese architecture, chiwen were mostly made of pottery or wood before the time of Yongle Palace, but the ones at the temple used a colored glaze, known as liuli, that has not faded even ...

The Momoyama Period (1573-1615) artist Kaiho Yusho (1533-1615) was renowned among the elite painters of his time, and still is. More remarkable, however, is that fame came when he was in his 60s ...

I think about that all the time. RIP David Lynch. You are immortal. Lynskey went long on her love for Lynch, writing, “Through watching his work I realized that there is no point creating ...

You will grow in a courtyard of one mysterious taoist to become immortal. The Biolizard is a major figure in the Sonic games and there’s a small reference to it in the movies The horror hasn't ...