Early autumn, is the best time for lovers to roam around the flowered fields of Stone Elephant Lake. Lilies are symbol of eternal love and couples can admire them, while enjoying the park's fresh air. Family members can camp out by the lake ...
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Twenty-four solid gold ornaments dating back almost 2,000 years were returned to China without compensation on Monday, on the grounds that they had been looted from tombs in Gansu province and held by French collectors. Following a similar ...
Tags: French Collector, Gold Relics, artifacts
The Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on Sept. 27 in 2015. It is the second most important festival for Chinese people, only after the Spring Festival. In this year, a charity event "Super Mid-Autumn Reunion Dinner" has been launched across the ...
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Autumn Equinox, the 16th solar term of the year, begins this year on Sept 23 and ends on Oct 7. Autumn Equinox lies at the midpoint of autumn, dividing autumn ...
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Chinese people will receive the Mid-Autumn Festival on Sept. 27 this year, the 15th day of the eight month in lunar calender. It is a tradition to eat mooncakes and have a family gathering on the festival.
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A fragrant osmanthus exhibition kicked off on Thursday in the Summer Palace in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day. A total of 72 century-old osmanthus plants and more than ...
Tags: osmanthus exhibition, shrubs, scented tea
Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
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More than 2,000 people played the Chinese lute, or "pipa", together in Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sunday night, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest lute ensemble. The group of 2015 people, who ...
People danced to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday at Lotus Lake Park, Fengtai district, on Sept 26. It was also the final competition of Dancing Beijing, an annual contest for amateur dancers. The finalists ...
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More than 30 poets from China and abroad, including Germany, France, Iran and the United States, gathered at Beijing's China Millennium Monument on Sunday to celebrate the annual Mid-autumn festival and recite their works about the moon at ...
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Xue Kaizhong was not surprised when the gold and silver coins he bought on Aug 27 for 6,600 yuan ($1,033) were worth 9,000 yuan in mid-September. The 64-year-old, who lives in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, stood in line for two hours to ...
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Glass, one of the oldest man-made materials, carries a history of more than 2000 years in China. The earliest glass ware in China was shaped as small ball, and was used only as a decoration on the sword of nobleman. Glass boomed in China ...
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The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was ...
Participants wearing traditional costumes perform during a ritual to commemorate Zhuangzi at the Memorial Temple of Zhuangzi in Mengcheng county, Haozhou, in Anhui province on Oct 24. A ceremony commemorating the ancient Chinese ...
Sales and orders grew on the high street at a much stronger rate than had been anticipated in the year to September, with the robust pace of growth expected to continue next month, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive ...
Tags: Low inflation, wage growth