A throne belonging to Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795) during the Qing Dynasty has sold for 32 million yuan ($5.15 million) at an auction in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province.
Chinaculture.org has recently been named "Best Chinese Website with an International Vision". This award was also given to other two websites: nhfpc.gov.cn and drc.gov.cn.
The China Watercolor Art Research Exhibition will be staged at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing from Jan 22 to Feb 8.
A series of dust drawings have gone viral online, and the "painter" is Xiao Xiangzhong, a 67-year-old retired Chinese teacher.
A series of textbooks featuring gems of traditional Chinese culture will be used by primary and middle school students across China.
Urgent repairs are needed to an ancient Baofeng Pagoda, located about 25 kilometers northwest of Anyang county, Central China's Henan province.
Zhang Jieke, a post-80s generation cartoonist, held an individual art exhibition, "500-colored Beijing," showcasing around 40 pencil drawings of scenes in Beijing.
Cultural relics of musical instruments have been unearthed from a complex of tombs possibly dating back thousands of years in Zaoyang city, Central China's Hubei province, on Jan 5, 2015.
A national stamp exhibition on the Chinese zodiac is underway at the Suzhou Library in East China's Jiangsu province and will end on Jan 7.
A solo exhibition of distinguished Chinese artist Pan Gongkai (b. 1947) is now underway at the Frye Art Museum in the United States until Jan 18.
The 2015 datebook published by the Palace Museum has been selling well since it hit the shelves last year. Sales of the 66 yuan ($10.59) datebook via the Internet are high as well and the calendars are sold out at many online stores.
Fire burned Gongchen tower, a 600-year-old structure, in an ancient city in Weishan county, Dali prefecture, Yunnan province, to the ground on Jan 3, 2015. By 4:48 am, the flames that engulfed the 300 square meters of the tower were put out.