A worship ceremony for the solar term Grain Rain is held at Cangjie Temple in Baishui county, Shaanxi province, April 19, 2016.
"One hundred years from now, collections in my museum will become precious historical relics," Sun Songlin, founder of a Beijing-based private museum said.
People of the Tujia ethnic group hold a ceremony to mark the start of construction on a stilted house in Dongmenguan village in Xuan'en county, Central China's Hubei province, April 17, 2016.
The Save the Ancient Buildings Project plans to invest 40 million yuan for the conservation of local ancient villages in the next two years.
The 2016 Year of East Asia City of Culture was inaugurated in Ningbo, a coastal city in Southeast China's Zhejiang province, on April 15.
The opening ceremony of the 2016 East Asia City of Culture event was held in Jeju, South Korea on April 7. Delegations from Ningbo, Nara-ken and Jeju which were selected as East Asia’s three cities of culture attended the ceremony.
This spring, more than 400 artists from 25 countries will join 400 Chinese performers to stage more than 100 performances and two theme exhibitions in Beijing.
Baipu yellow rice wine is a specialty in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The orange-colored wine has a strong fragrance but tastes sweet and mellow.
A joint statement to set up a China Cultural Center in Israel was issued by the two parties on March 29.
Wu painted Zhouzhuang more than once and the picturesque water town has been portrayed on canvas by many other artists. Let's take a look at Zhouzhuang through the eyes of different painters.
Zhouzhuang, an oil painting by master artist Wu Guanzhong sold for HK$236 million ($30.4 million) on Monday night at Poly Auction's spring sale, according to Beijing Times.
According to the Announcement on Further Strengthening Cultural Relics Protection released by China’s State Council on March 30, a lifelong retroactive accountability mechanism for cultural relics has been put on the agenda.