Traditionally a Chinese spring ritual, the tomb-sweeping festival is said to have its roots in an emperor's cruelty to a follower Ching Ming Festival, also known as tomb-sweeping day, is celebrated 15 ...

HONG KONG, China (CNN)-- I-Ching or the "Book of Changes" is an ancient Chinese divination manual and a book of wisdom which interprets hexagrams (symbols made up of six stacked horizontal lines ...

Yesterday the new steam gunboat Dai-Ching, which has been lying at the Brooklyn Navy-yard for over a week, was tranaferred to the Navy Department. She was built at the foot of North Secondstreet ...

The tradition had faded by the Tang dynasty (AD618-907), when it was consolidated into the more well-known Ching Ming Festival. As a result, not many in China observe the Cold Food Festival today ...

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Following US president Donald Trump’s February announcement of the “America First Investment Policy”, designating China as a foreign adversary posing a threat to US “national security ...