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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Guests from both the Chateau de Chambord and Summer Palace attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition on Oct 20, 2015. An exhibition on the culture and history of French royal castle, the Chateau de Chambord, opened at the Garden 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
Yu Haibo, deputy director of the Culture Expo organizing commitee office. [Photo provided to China Daily] The 2015 China International Culture and Creative Industry Expo, now in its 10th year, is set to launch in Beijing on Oct 29. ...
Tags: Culture expo, Chinese culture, Crafts and artistic products
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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Due to fast urbanization of the country, traditional villages are facing an unprecedented challenge to survive. According to statistics by the Housing Construction Department, the number of unincorporated villages in the country saw a sharp ...
The Kenyan government has commenced discussion with Chinese authorities to help showcase the East African nation's cultural heritage in the Asian nation's museums, officials said on Monday. Mzalendo Kibunjia, Director General of ...
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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In view of rising imports of batik textiles, Indonesia's Ministry of Trade has issued a regulation requiring all importers of batik-patterned fabrics to register with the ministry and seek special permit for import. Addressing a press ...
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A press briefing on the upcoming Chinese culture season in UK was held on Friday morning at National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Officials from the Chinese Ministry of Culture as well as the British Embassy in China attended the ...
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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 ...
AkzoNobel’s contribution to fusing modern technology with classic painting techniques were celebrated in Amsterdam during a special viewing of Vincent Van Gogh’s newly-restored Field with Irises near Arles. As part of the ...
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Though the Chinese government promulgated the "Great Wall of Protection Ordinance" in 2006, the world famous ancient stone fortification is still disappearing at a tremendous speed, especially the parts in forsaken mountain areas. ...
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