A Chinese concert by the show Super Chinese Style Music presented an audio-visual feast that combined traditional Chinese ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Compass, China, 220 BCE . by Susan Silverman AC. ... Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the ...

Qian Xun is a direction marked on the ancient Chinese compass, and 15 gengs is about 150 nautical miles. ... wind directions and ocean currents for different times of the year.

Smithsonian’s ‘Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings’ is the first major U.S. show devoted to artifacts from the capital of the 3,000-year-old Shang Dynasty.

5 fast facts about Ancient China. Around 3,000 years ago, people in ancient China used "oracle bones" — tortoise shells or bones inscribed with Chinese writing — to predict the future.

Five dynasties, or families, ruled ancient China for more than 6,000 years. The last one of the ancient period, the Han dynasty, ruled around the same time as the ancient Roman Empire.Today ...