The National Art Museum of China in Beijing is providing art students with the opportunity to see how classroom learning translates into works that resonate with the public.
No words can summarize the relationship between Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian, three eminent reformers of 20th-century art, better than the Chinese idiom, xing xing xiang xi, which translates to mutual recognition between the wise, or like minds that admire each other.
Researchers studying the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips have identified what they describe as the earliest known specialized material on horse management in China, unveiling the findings at a book launch for The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts (Vol XV) on Jan 19.
JINAN — At 4 pm, more than 30 students practice basic archery techniques in the Jinxiucheng Primary School training room in Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong province.
On the eighth day of the 12th month on the Chinese calendar, the aroma of laba porridge will drift across China, signaling the arrival of the Chinese New Year season.
In the quiet hour before dawn, when Baisha ancient town still slumbers at the foot of Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, Yunnan province, 57-year-old Yang Zhijian begins his daily work.
When Du Xiaofan from Fudan University first visited Loushang, an ancient village in Guizhou province, in 2015, he was captivated by its scenic beauty and relatively intact architecture preserved over centuries.
Amid the aroma wafting from book pages, the exhibition hall in the National Library of China in Beijing evokes a sense of the chanting sounds that worship Confucian sage wisdom in ancient classics throughout Chinese history.
Inside his Marscloud Art Gallery in Manassas, Virginia, Kuang Lin doesn't begin by talking about brushwork, composition, or color. Instead, he talks like an investigator, pointing to what he considers evidence.
Beijing is among the easiest cities to explore, according to Waad Melliti, senior business manager at the World Tourism Cities Federation.
On a winter evening in Liaoning province, Lu Jun opens China's streaming app QQ Music, types in a few lines, and waits. Seconds later, a finished track is generated, including song lyrics that adhere to both melody and rhyme, and compositions that are coherent and structurally consistent.
For generations, traditional Chinese medicine arrived with ceremony as dried roots and peels carefully measured from wooden drawers, taken home, and simmered in a slow, bitter ritual that demanded attention when the body called for care.