It has long been a festival tradition to visit their ancestors' graves, though an increasing number of young people across ...

The battle over the next Dalai Lama, between religious tradition and state power, is set to become one of the defining ...

On April 19, the third day of the third lunar month, the Ancestral Worship Ceremony at the Yellow Emperor's Hometown in Xinzheng, Zhengzhou, was held for the Bingwu Year (2026). Continuing the theme ...

Technicians excavate the Nestorian church at the Tangchaodun site in Qitai county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2022. [Photo provided to China Daily] At a crossroads of the ancient world, ...

Historian Xi Lian discusses modern Chinese Christianity, “public Christianity” in post-Mao China, and how his year at Harvard ...

A decade after the initiative began, Beijing intensifies its campaign to sinicize religions, imposing stricter state-led ...

SCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in theOpen Questions series. What first made you suspect that it was Chinese explorers and not Europeans who launched the true Age of Discovery? The ...

For sufferers of hair loss, patience for the two most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals — and their well-documented side effects — is wearing thin. But new research points to old wisdom for how to ...

While most Chinese people’s surnames are only one character long, there are also millions of people who have compound surnames which are considered rare and precious. You might have come across some ...

Rogan brought up alien life, a topic he enjoys, and the 43-year-old Indian actress expressed a similar fascination and openness to the prospect. “In ancient religious texts, there’s many stories of ...