Kites are flown during a competition to celebrate the launch of the ninth edition of the national public ice and snow season in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Dec 24. ZHANG SHU/FOR CHINA DAILY Orcas, horses, dragons, the Monkey King from Chinese legend, skeletons, and even SpongeBob SquarePants - you probably wouldn't expect to see this collection of animals, mythological creatures, …
A Liangzhu Culture cong unearthed from the Sidun site in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. Original examples of Liangzhu jade like cong continued to be made in later historical periods. People from the Song Dynasty also made porcelain replicas of cong as art pieces, according to Xu Lin, a researcher at the Palace Museum. As traces of cong gradually became obscured by …
