It is also a reminder of an itinerant merchant tradition of the ancient Chinese caravans.
But ancient Chinese wisdom teaches that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Barstein: There is an ancient Chinese proverb: The way to scare 10, 000 monkeys is by killing one.
Consistent with the teachings of ancient Chinese warfare, anti-access is comprised of both military and political elements.
Dubs's theory rests mainly on tantalising hints found in ancient Chinese historiography, none of which refers specifically to Romans.
First, "A Discerning Eye: The Aoyama San'u Collection, " works of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy from Aoyama's private holdings.
We decided that only these ancient Chinese works of fine art are everlasting.
In a sense, salt is merely reasserting its historic role as a medium of value: Ancient Chinese economies were based on it (and iron).
Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric "mirrors" of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds.
With all this new contextualizing material, I could do an exhibition on the design and outfitting of a Chinese tomb or on ancient Chinese music.
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W. Turner, cubist paintings by Pablo Picasso and ancient Chinese bronzes.
This requires abundant historical knowledge and mastery of ancient Chinese grammar.
Indeed, if superstitious, take into account that Ancient Chinese wisdom advises a Snake in the house because it protects you and and your family from starving.
Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
Known to mate for life, cranes are an ancient Chinese symbol of fidelity, a concept the artists here emphasized by including two tottering fledglings in each composition.
Acupuncture: An ancient Chinese art based on the theory that Qi energy flows along meridians in the body, and can be stimulated by inserting fine needles at specific points.
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Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
We asked destiny consultant Master Raymond Lo, an expert in reading the I-Ching, the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes, " which of the top sports people bound for Beijing would be successful at the Olympics.
We have thus systematically violated one of the cardinal principles of warfare dating back at least to the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tsu, who warned that you cannot defeat an enemy you do not know.
Developed largely from his study of the ancient Chinese theoretician Sun Tzu and Prussian military reformers of the 19th century, the theory explains how a combatant can defeat the enemy on the mental battlefield, before the real shooting starts.
To achieve these feats, Nektar's scientists performed hundreds of hours of computer simulations, tested more than a dozen different formulations of dried insulin and traveled around the world drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese seeds, plants in the Mexican desert and production techniques used in making instant coffee, powdered milk, aviation aerodynamics, truck fuel injectors and industrial vacuum pumps.
As I was escorted along the hallway, my eyes turned to the grand wall murals that illustrated Chinese ancient mythologies.
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How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?
Japan administers the islands, but China says the island group has been part of Chinese territory since ancient times.
Ancient Romans, Indians and Chinese sealed meats, nuts and fruit in it.
The National Library of China (NLC) contributed manuscripts, maps, books, and rubbings of steles and oracle bones that span the range of Chinese history from ancient to modern times.
There is the Forbidden City, which is the ancient imperial palace where dozens of Chinese emperors ruled the country for 500 years.
But Pan Yue, the best-known advocate of green concerns within the Chinese government, says ancient creeds, like Taoism, offer the best hope of making people treat the earth more kindly.
Some Chinese say openly that using ancient culture to promote soft power is a bad idea.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
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