One of the animations shows the emperor dressed as an ordinary man sitting by a river, washing his feet by moving one leg against the other. Another frame has Yongzheng dressed as a hunter ...

Much mystery clouds over Yongzheng, the controversial emperor who ruled over China from 1722 to 1735. Nearly three centuries after he died at the age of 58, his life and reign has remained ...

Thought control is nothing new. In 1728, Yongzheng, third Manchu Emperor of China, had a problem: How could he “silence the song of a phoenix?” His “phoenix” was an obscure scholar ...

The bowl was produced during the time of the Yongzheng Emperor, who ruled China from 1722 to 1735 (though the enamel was likely painted shortly after his death). It is part of a tradition known as ...

Let's look at a piece of work favored by Emperor Yongzheng, who is Emperor Qianlong's father. It is a small bowl with a diameter of only 10.3 cm. There is a painting of an orchid plant and a queer ...