There is no one "oracle bone" — about 13,000 have been found — but these relics hint at the development of writing in ancient China. They date from the late Shang Dynasty, (circa 1250 B.C. to ...

Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east ... while poets were moved by its very presence. Writing in the eighth century, Zhang Ji describes a temple on the canal whose “ringing bell ...

One of them has been around for centuries: writing riddles on the sides of lanterns ... According to Pak, the Chinese have been celebrating the yearly autumn harvest since the Shang dynasty ...

It is engraved with calligraphy in the clerical script. The piece is a rare find since, at the time it was created, ancient Chinese writing was gradually changing from the standard script ...