Besides Tet shopping, cleaning the altar and removing incense sticks are also important tasks in the twelfth lunar month.

Driven by a passion for ceramics, this woman from Ho Chi Minh City, born in the 1980s, owns many valuable antique ceramic ...

Geunjeongjeon Hall at Gyeongbokgung Palace, the very heart of royal authority during the Joseon Dynasty, stands proudly with two massive incense burners on either side of its vast courtyard. For over ...

BUYEO, South Chungcheong Province — In 1993, at an old temple site in Buyeo, archaeologists uncovered an unexpected marvel during the construction of a parking lot: a gilt-bronze incense burner from ...

Everyone loves a good comeback story. And for two ancient Chinese porcelain ducks, it's been quite a journey. Crafted during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), they were intended as incense burners for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the Fire Dragon Ceremony, celebrating the mid-autumn Moon Festival in Hong Kong. Each year it attracts thousands of ...

Hong Kong has kicked off its Moon Festival with a dancing fire dragon. Performers decorated it with more than 10,000 burning incense sticks and carried it through the ...

Smoke curled through the night air in Vancouver’s Chinatown, lit by the flicker of incense sticks attached to an undulating 20-metre straw dragon. When Leanne Yu first witnessed the fire dragon dance ...

Facing the Baekje Gilt-Bronze Incense Burner, a national treasure, one cannot help but exclaim, “Ah!” It depicts a dragon holding a stem connected to a lotus bud in its mouth. The lotus blooming from ...

The traditional Middle Eastern incense called bukhoor, or bakhoor, is often passed among guests so they can imbue the lingering fragrance into their hair, clothes and hands. Shutterstock Looking to ...

Archaeologists are thrilled at the thought that the discovery of the palace may lead them to the elusive ancient grave of the Mongolian warrior. "According to various documents related to Genghis Khan ...