Sixty-two murals from the ancient Khotan civilization have been restored recently after over two years' painstaking efforts by cultural relic restorers.
A gold-plating belt salvaged from the ancient merchant boat Nanhai (South China Sea) No. 1 is on display at a show about cultural relics along the Maritime Silk Road at the Hainan Museum.
The recruiting examination for art students in Shanxi province has started. Many students are in the home stretch of the test. Some get up at 6 am to practice singing, and some work on their paintings late into the night.
Yiwu is commonly known as the "supermarket of the world". As the lunar new year approaches, it has again become busy with the store shelves stocked with merchandises such as new year paintings and figurines that are thought to bring prosperity in the coming year.
As a well-known tourist site in East China's Zhejiang province, Wuzhen is often in the headlines - either for the World Internet Conference or for its theater festival.
A graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, Ye Yongqing draws birds using a unique method. A solo exhibition now running in Beijing has dozens of his works produced over the past year. Lin Qi reports.
The laughing crying emoji, or the 'face with tears of joy' emoji, has become one of 2015's most frequently used "word" on social media with a reach of 6.5 billion on Twitter, according to German communication agency Faktor3.
A batch of well-designed cultural calendars were hot sellers at the end of the year and now posting photos of the calendars has become a new fad on social networks.
As the Year of the Monkey comes, handicrafts related with the zodiac monkeys have become particularly popular throughout the country.
Tang Yunlun, 50, lives in Gaoling village of Lianyungang city in Jiangsu province. He is famed for his unique style of straw plaiting which has been handed down in his family from generation to generation
The oldest Hoabinhian culture, an important technological adaptation by hunter-gatherers to the humid tropical and subtropical environments of southeast Asia some 43,500 years ago, was identified in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Wei Lizhong, inheritor of woodblock painting technique, makes a print at the Shizhuzhai woodblock painting workshop in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, Dec 31, 2015.
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