If you're looking for a Chinese #AncientTown# that hasn't been overly commercialized, Jiuzhou is the answer. Founded in 1351, it feels like stepping back in time as u wander along its streets, flanked by stone-built old houses left by #MingDynasty# over 600 years ago. #ChinaTravel#

The lacquer gauze hair crowns and head ornaments excavated from the Ming Dynasty Wang Luo family tomb, in the collection of the Changzhou Wujin District Museum. This set of hair ornaments includes buns, forehead ornaments, full crowns, floral diadems, and other pieces. The hair bun (hair crown) consists of a frame woven from silver wires, covered with black crepe gauze. The forehead ornament at the front of the crown is a gilt Buddha statue seated upright on a lotus pedestal. The lower floral diadem is formed as an arc-shaped band, decorated with a total of eleven plum blossoms, with pearls inlaid in the flower pistils. At the back is an arc-shaped gold full crown featuring cloud-and-dragon motifs. The top of the lingji is adorned with a large sunflower, surrounded below by four flowers and four butterflies alternating in a ring, forming a gilt top hairpin with a “butterflies loving flowers” motif. 常州武进区博物馆收藏的明代王洛家族墓出土的漆纱发冠、头面，本组发饰包括髻、挑心、满冠、花钿等。髌髻（发冠）以银丝编织框架，框架上覆黑绉纱。 冠前挑心是一尊端坐在莲花座上的鎏金佛像；下部花钿呈弧形带状，共饰十一朵梅花，花蕊内缀珍珠；后部有一弧形金质云龙纹满冠；灵髻顶部饰大朵葵花，下有四花、四蝶交替环绕，组成蝶恋花鎏金顶簪。 📷遗产君

Tried being a QUEEN for a day 😘👑✨ Ming Dynasty Xiaoduan Empress 孝端皇后 Nine-Dragon Nine-Phoenix Crown is truly on another level—48.5 cm tall, inlaid with 115 uncut natural rubies and 4,414 pearls💎🐉A peak expression of Ming court aesthetics~😌✨ But the headband version isn’t bad either!😁🎀👑 #ICIF#

Jiayuguan, the westernmost point of China's Ming Dynasty Great Wall, and the ancient city of Petra in Jordan are both landmarks boasting rich cultural heritage. In 2017, they established a twinhood relationship, built on the fact that both are UNESCO-listed World Heritage sites, distinguished by their unique and creative architecture in harmony with the natural environment. In 2025, the Chinese city of Jiayuguan and the Jordanian city of Petra signed an agreement on cooperation in culture and tourism at the archaeological site of Petra, seeking to strengthen the friendly ties between the two historical sites.

This blew my mind: between 1403 and 1407, the Ming Dynasty emperor commissioned an encyclopedia - now called the Yongle encyclopedia, after the emperor - that was so vast in scale (around 400 million Chinese characters) that the only other encyclopedia that finally exceeded it was Wikipedia in 2007, 6 years after its launch! This is yet another example of West-centric our sense of intellectual history is: in French education we're taught that encyclopedias as a concept started with Diderot and d'Alembert's "Encyclopédie" in the mid-18th century, which we're told was the first attempt in history to gather all of human knowledge in one place. Not only was the Yongle encyclopedia completed 350 years earlier, and not only is it 20 times larger than L'Encyclopédie, but it was itself a very late entry in a Chinese tradition of encyclopedias which started with the Huanglan - more than 8 million characters in length - compiled around 220 AD ( Unfortunately much of the encyclopedia has been lost: out of the original 11,095 volumes, only around 400 are known to have survived (300-ish of which are in China). But we sometimes find new ones, like two volumes that surfaced in 2020 in the attic of a French family, descendants of a naval officer who had received them as a gift from corrupt Chinese officials in the 1870s. They went to auction in Paris with a starting price of 5,000 euros and sold for 8.12 million to a Chinese textile entrepreneur, Jin Liang, who donated them to China's National Archives of Publications this summer (

What did ancient clothing reveal? A new exhibition from Shandong Museum in Senegal features exquisite Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) garments, exploring how Confucian rites influenced both court attire and everyday dress — a window into tradition, identity and craftsmanship.

China’s Wudang Mountains are one of the country’s most important Taoist sacred sites. Temples and monasteries have stood among the peaks for centuries, with the complex reaching its height during the Ming dynasty.

Agents are joining the curator intelligence stack. As they prove their value, their scope expands: from assisting curation teams to operating within bounded permissions and coordinating execution against human-set goals. What risk-aware agentic curation requires, by @MingXDynasty and @tarunchitra:

Xi'an, a shining pearl on the ancient Silk Road, is renowned for its seamless blend of profound historical heritage and modern vitality. From the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and its Terracotta Warriors—hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World"—to the largest surviving ancient city wall of the Ming Dynasty, and from the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, a testament to the spread of Buddhist culture, to the Tang Dynasty Everbright City that revives the splendor of the High Tang era, this ancient capital perfectly unites millennia of civilization with contemporary allure, inviting you to a cultural feast that transcends time and space. (Video by Huayun Bilingual Cultural Communication Society of North Minzu University) #ChinaCulture#

Xi'an, a dazzling pearl on the ancient Silk Road, is renowned for its profound historical heritage intertwined with modern vitality. From the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and his Terracotta Warriors—hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World"—to the best-preserved Ming Dynasty city wall, the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda that bears witness to the spread of Buddhist culture, and the Tang Dynasty Ever-bright City that recreates the splendor of the Tang era, this ancient capital perfectly blends millennia-old civilization with contemporary charm, inviting you to a cultural feast that transcends time and space. (Video by Huayun Bilingual Cultural Communication Society of North Minzu University) #ChinaCulture#