From the Monkey King who rides the clouds to a woman runner glittered in the morning glory, the works of Li Xiangqun, a sculptor of repute, have evoked in the audience collective memories, feelings and anticipation.
It was popular during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to paint and write on paper fans. Despite the difficulty, artists managed to reproduce landscapes and poems on the folds, lending the fans a sense of romanticism and magnificence.
In a modest residential area in Ansai, a district of Yan'an city in Shaanxi province, an artist's hands dance across sheets of vibrant red paper. The rhythmic snip-snip-snip of her scissors fills the quiet atmosphere, creating intricate patterns that tell stories of ancient traditions, family tales and the ever-present beauty of rural China.
At a recent grand Spring Festival village evening gala in Chongqing's Yongchuan district on Jan 16, the audience was captivated by the Anren Bench Dragon Dance, a form of national intangible cultural heritage from Dazhou, Sichuan province.
Stamp collectors queued outside a themed post office in downtown Beijing on Wednesday morning for a stamped envelope issued by China Philately ahead of Chinese New Year.
All six upcoming films competing for the Spring Festival market unveiled behind-the-scenes stories during a promotional event hosted by the China Film Administration, the industry's top regulator, at the China National Film Museum on Wednesday.
Boonie Bears, an enduring animated franchise featuring the titular sibling creatures, will make a comeback on the domestic silver screen with its 11th installment, "Future Reborn".
The Beijing Wtown has launched a series of Spring Festival celebrations that combine traditional culture and modern practices.
The Vitality of Spring Endures in Every Stroke, an exhibition at the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy, salutes their retired resident painters' persistence in art.
The yaji, or "elegant gathering", was a tradition among intellectuals, artists and people of higher social class in ancient China. They would gather to share their thoughts, demonstrate individual artistic or cultural attainments, and collaborate on the creation of prose, poems, calligraphy, and paintings.
Embracing the Spring, Celebrating the Year of Snake, an exhibition that opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing on Wednesday, is not only a warm-up for Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 29, and the start of the Year of the Snake, but also ushers in a mood of spring hope.
Spring Festival's UNESCO recognition maps its position as a planetary jamboree that comes from China but now formally belongs to our shared world, Erik Nilsson reports.