The opening ceremony of "Beijing Week" at 2015 Milan Expo was held at the China Pavilion on May 30th. Officials from China and Italy including Wang Jinzhen, Chief Representative of the Chinese government on 2015 Milan Expo and Vice Chairman ...
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A special animation exhibition opened in Sydney China Cultural Center on Friday, kicking off a two-month long Hunan Cultural Season in Australia. Themed Fantastic Hunan, the exhibition showcases the latest products and creations of ...
Ningbo, a coastal city in southeast China's Zhejiang province, was crowned 2016 East Asia Cultural City on Tuesday. Established by China, Japan and South Korea, the East Asian Cultural City is an important cultural brand in the region. ...
After cutting a palm leaf into three pieces and knotting them together, Hu Licheng quickly weaved the stomach of a cricket. "Hold this for me," he said as he handed the partly-finished handicraft to a boy near the gate of Jing'an Park in ...
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Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
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While the exhibits at Nanchang Porcelain Painting Museum in suburban Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi province may impress each visitor with their elegance, they are also likely to evoke childhood memories among many visitors, ...
It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end ...
Tags: Traditional Art, Chinese folk operas, cultural activity center
When The Heaven & Earth Totem/China Beat concert opens on Oct 19 in Beijing's popular bar area of Sanlitun, the audience will experience something which is more like a shamanic ritual. "I hope our post-ancient rhythms can lead our ...
Tags: Liu Sola, musicians, classical music
Oct 10 marked the 90th anniversary of the Beijing Palace Museum's founding. Besides opening four new sections to tourists this month - mainly the Cining Gong, the Cining Gong garden and the Shoukang Gong - the museum is holding a series of ...
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This photo shows the course of documentary Paper Culture Along the Silk Road. Great Seed began production on its new documentary titled Paper Culture Along the Silk Road in Beijing on Tuesday. The project which explores the origins and ...
A man walks through burning charcoal as he participates in the traditional ritual "Lianhuo", or "fire walking", in Pan'an county, East China's Zhejiang province on Oct 21, 2015. Local people held the ceremony to show respects to ancestors ...
Tags: 'fire Walking'Ceremony, traditional activity, E China Village
Gao Junwei, an engraving artist aged over 80, shows a stone engraved with tiny Chinese characters on an intangible cultural heritage festival held in Sichuan on Sept 16, 2015. Gao can engrave 155 characters on one-square-centimeter area of ...
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Holding a string of Buddhist prayer beads, 80-year-old Lhasa resident Doje sits in a park crooning in a crowd gathered for a performance of famous Tibetan opera Padma Obar. As the opera starts, the crowd falls silent in anticipation. ...
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Although oil paper umbrellas have lost their practical function today, they are still attracting modern customers in another way. In Luzhou's Fenshui, Southwest China's Sichuan province, the history of making oil paper umbrellas can be ...
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Representatives from China and Italy opened the door to the Nanjing yunjin pavilion for the first time at 10:30 am on July 7 in Italy’s fashion capital of Milan. The opening marked the commencement of the eagerly awaited Nanjing week ...