The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...
EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings ...
Wu recalls that, as early as the 1980s during her student days, she was aware of these valuable Dunhuang pipa scores, which received worldwide attention and attracted many experts to decode. As a ...
Archaeological finds from the Hemudu culture in Zhejiang Province show that ancient Chinese people were the ... everything from furniture and musical instruments to weapons and ceremonial objects.
Koumartzis, 41, is continuing a family tradition focusing on making replicas of ancient Greek musical instruments based on old images on frescoes and vases going back centuries. "It all started ...
The studio also presented two other works, inspired by ancient Chinese legends ... A 1.2-meter-long musical instrument resembling a Chinese dragon captivated passersby with its novel design ...