Tea was popular in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties prominent officials and eminent people used tea drinking as an occasion to foster friendships and discuss poetry.

One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ... Scholars already knew that such simple, functional tea bowls had been exported worldwide from the eighth to the tenth centuries: Shards ...

The oldest discovered tea is from the Han Dynasty, dating 206BC to 220AD. But it’s thought that the tea trend really took off during the Tang Dynasty in the 8th Century, when it became China’s ...

Remarkable auctions are shaped by remarkable collections, and Heritage’s September 24 Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature® Auction is made up of works from more than a dozen distinguished U.S.-based ...

When I was invited to talk about the civil service exams and Tang Dynasty poetry to a class of seventh graders, I consulted my go-to text, An Anthology of Chinese Literature, Beginnings to 1911, ...

I was in China two weeks ago, and was invited to a Tang Dynasty tea house ... and I came to appreciate tea more maybe in the context of like they have tea ceremony and then I saw tea, from ...

In those circumstances, China often provided a safety net by permitting the pastoral nomads to trade for such necessities as grain and craft articles and such luxuries as silk and tea. On the other ..

A Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb yielded a copper box containing a scroll and a copper statue, with the scroll being the most complete paper document found in a Chinese burial in recent years.

Book: 17 x 13 in. (43.2 x 33 cm.) Michael Kenna's platinum prints capturing Huangshan, a mountain range in Eastern China, are presented alongside forty poems from the Tang Dynasty, known as the Golden ...

Michelle Cheng, the founder of Ceremony café and tea house in Providence, Rhode Island, says that her favorite thing about matcha “is the focus it’s able to provide me, without the consequences of a ...

These burial figures date from the Tang dynasty in China. If you died in China and you were an important figure, such as an emperor, you would want all of your retinue to come into your tomb as ...