Chinese painting of kite-flying - Chinese kite project Who invented kites? The earliest kites were probably invented in China about 800 BC, during the Zhou Dynasty. People made these early kites [...]
Wild hemp plant - for hemp cloth, oil, or medicine Where does hemp grow wild? Before people ever thought of using it for anything, hemp grew wild all over Central [...]
Kongming's Light, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Kites came first People in China started to fly kites made of silk and bamboo by about 800 BC. Maybe flying [...]
Flute players like Xue Tao (T'ang Dynasty China) Xue Tao's childhood Like Bai Juyi, the poet Xue Tao was born in China during the T'ang Dynasty. She was a little [...]
Early Chinese literature: an oracle bone with Chinese characters written on it When did people start to write in China? People in China started to write about 1500 BC, more than a [...]
Ancient China trade: Rice paddy with a Chinese man planting rice Farming in Ancient China In China, as in West Asia, India, or Africa, most people have spent most of [...]
Sui Dynasty art: a clay camel, ca. 600-650 AD What came before the Sui Dynasty? In the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese artists had learned a lot about Indian and West [...]
Han art: An embroidered Chinese boddhisatva (on cloth) wearing a pearl necklace When was the Han Dynasty? There were three big changes in Chinese art in the Han Dynasty. One [...]
Inside Chinese houses: Women sitting on a k'ang bed in the 1890s Heated bed platforms Beginning in the Stone Age, people in China heated their beds before they slept in [...]
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]
