The beauty of the area along the Fuchun River, in central Zhejiang province of East China, has been the subject of many artists, the best known of them being the 14th-century ink painting Dwelling on the Fuchun Mountain.
Chinese paper cutting is one of the oldest handicrafts in China. It varies from animals and plants to the vivid scenes of our everyday lives.
As Nov 25 marks the World Vegetarian Day, here's a look at history of vegetarianism in China and a recommendation of some nice vegetarian restaurants.
Chinese singer Zhou Yanhong recently joined dozens of celebrities at Beijing's Shijia Primary School to unveil a charity project to help left-behind children and underprivileged college students.
One of the most unique and high-pitched sounds often heard in traditional Chinese music comes from the suona, an instrument one musician is trying to preserve. Zhou Dongchao is a suona master in Beijing who has been playing the instrument for nearly 50 years.
On Wednesday, more than 200 teenagers from the Zhejiang Provincial School for Visually-Impaired Students visited Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, where they tried to feel the history of the country, led by their own senses and a curiosity as precious as the antiques.
From sharing bicycle to sharing car, China's sharing economy has now swept into the book industry.
A collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller that shows the couple's wide-ranging interest in art and antiquity will be auctioned in New York in 2018.
Noted Hong Kong-based scholar Jao Tsung-i (Rao Zongyi), 100, was named after Zhou Dunyi, an 11th-century philosopher, by his father who hoped that he could be someday as learned as Zhou.
Beijing-based artist Wang Tianmin recently published an album that catalogs the development of his ink paintings and calligraphic pieces. It traces his experiments with a freehand style of ink-brush painting and his accomplishments in handling the various styles of traditional Chinese writing.
The winning work and runners-up at this year's Architectural Photography Awards, presented on Nov 18 in Berlin, are being exhibited at Beijing's True Space gallery through Dec 25.
A contestant works on a stone sculpture during a competition of stone carving skills in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, Nov 22, 2017.
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