The rarely seen Bunian Tu, one of China’s most celebrated surviving ancient painting, went on display on Tuesday in the Capital Museum in Beijing and will be exhibited there for two months.
The Firecracker and Dragon Festival, which falls on the 11th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, was inscribed into the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008.
Hebei province's Baigou town has recently launched a large-scale historical show Dream in Baigou to spice things up for its residents and visitors alike.
Traditional celebrations for the Chinese New Year have been given a modern touch: family reunion dinners on lunar New Year's Eve have gradually moved from home tables to restaurants; sending and receiving digital red envelopes is all the rage; traveling, cinema- and museum-going with family members prevail as holiday activities.
A Chinese archaeologist has accidentally discovered a 1,500-year-old mini-statue hidden in a small hole in the Yungang Grottoes in North China's Shanxi province.
Li Xia, a Manchu paper-cutting artist in Jilin city, Jilin province, recently finished a collection that includes 100 dog paper-cuts in different shapes to welcome the Year of the Dog.
A new tourist route on a Spanish-administered archipelago off the west coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean will soon be opened for Chinese travelers in commemoration of the late writer Sanmao, according to local tourism authorities.
Chinese actor Ge You has won a lawsuit against a travel company that used his image without permission.
Artists perform Lu Opera in Nanlou village of Subu town in Yu'an district of Lu'an city, East China's Anhui province.
The Franklin Institute, a museum in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, pledged on Friday to protect a set of China's terracotta warrior statues with the "utmost care and reverence," after a man stole a statue's thumb.
In the Chinese restaurant of Chefchaouen, one of the top tourist attractions in Morocco, a dining area of less than 100 square meters was filled with more than a hundred Chinese tourists, with a lot more waiting outside, during the Chinese Spring Festival.
Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue.
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