Sima Qian's calendar was considered revolutionary, setting 365.25 days to a year, and 29.53 days to a month The planet 12620 is named Simaqian in his honour Sima thought the purpose of history was ...

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

These traps were all placed on the tombs of nobles and leaders from the era. According to Chinese historian Sima Qian in ...

Anyone who produces a work of history in China “does it in the shadow of one writer”, says Rana Mitter – Sima Qian. Sima Qian was a court official whose writing was distinctive in its ...

GANSU- A number of foreign journalists from different countries visited Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring in Dunhuang City ...

This Chinese proverb comes from a book titled Historical Records, written in 100 BC by China's great historian Sima Qian. He had been sentenced to death but survived by undergoing voluntary ...