At the base of Zhongnan Mountain in Xi’an, China, the Guanyin Chan Temple features an ancient ginkgo tree that is over 1,400 ...

Recently, a study was conducted on Buddhist and Taoist temples across China. The study revealed that these temples have ...

Team finds China's Buddhist and Taoist temples host higher concentration of old trees - some dating back 1,000 years - than anywhere else At the foot of Zhongnan Mountain in the Chinese city of ...

The ancient architecture of the temples themselves, the oldest of which dates to the 7th century, is considered a supreme example of Chinese architecture, as are the cultural relics that they house.

While tracing the stone capstan that trackers used to moor their boats along the Yongning River in Xuyong county, Luzhou, Sichuan province, Liu Xin and his colleagues made a serendipitous discovery of ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Temple grounds in China serve as refuges for ancient and threatened tree species, with about 50,000 old trees documented, including approximately 6,000 from ...

Travelling through North China's Shanxi Province feels like stepping into a living history book where ancient temples and exquisite artworks whisper tales of bygone times. As a Global Times ...