At the Battle of Mingtiao, the Shang dynasty was firmly established under Cheng Tang, the first Shang king. The first chariots appear at the end of the Shang dynasty, around 1200 BC, during the ...

The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled liquor. This discovery suggests that the history of Chinese distilled liquor ...

In 2010, a bronze, owl-shaped vessel was unearthed within a Chinese tomb at the Daxinzhuang Ruins in Jinan, Shandong province ...

For more than 3,000 years, China’s oldest-known distilled spirit remained hidden inside a bronze, owl-shaped vessel unearthed within a Shang Dynasty tomb. Discovered in 2010 in Jinan ...