A major relics site in the Northern Wei period (386-534) was discovered in Datong, North China's Shanxi Province during the ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

Wang Yanqing (L), a staff member of the research institute of the Yungang Grottoes, conducts an archaeological investigation ...

The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties (316-907). These works, entirely devoted to the ...

Ding Hao, a local tour guide with 13 years of experience, told the Global Times that no matter how many times he has seen it, he always finds that Datong in spring has a unique charm. While exploring ...

In the time of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (late fifth century), a Buddhist temple stood on this spot. A stone pagoda was added in 602 and the name of the temple changed.

around the fifth year of the Shiguang period of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The pagoda is 44.6 centimeters high and the diameter of its base is 15.2 centimeters. A tenon on the bottom indicates that ...