The 2025 Crabapple Gala and Crabapple Poetry Party kicked off on April 7 at the Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling, attracting diplomats and representatives from over 40 countries, including Switzerland, Turkmenistan, Portugal, Singapore, Luxembourg, Pakistan and Bulgaria.
The Blossom, which runs until June 20, echoes Tianjin's cultural heritage, its museums that house great classic art, and its schools that have trained important figures in modern art. It also offers visitors a fresh perspective on art and technology.
Celebration of early European classical music includes fresh twists, Chinese elements, Chen Nan reports.
Chen Meimei, a 26-year-old from Shiyan, Hubei province, recently spent a weekend in Xinghua village in Danjiangkou, less than two hours away. She arrived just in time for the village's annual "Three Blossoms Festival", which celebrates the blooming of apricot, peach, and rape flowers — and the experience was unlike any she'd had before.
Fleeting companions Instead of the usual image of cats curled up on laps, some young people in China are choosing crabs, praying mantises, and hamsters as pets.
"Has the grain been filled?" is a playful way of asking, "Have you eaten?" Similarly, "Your hands are like excavators, with the strength of bears, wolves, and leopards" means "You have a strong grip."
An exhibition in Shiyan, Hubei province showcases works of women seal engravers. Key points: It presents the artworks created by female seal engravers.
In Chinese, qiuhe means hills and valleys where streams run through, resembling the recurring motifs of the mountain-and-water style in classical Chinese paintings. It also means a realm of expanse and depth and the openness of one's mind and heart.
Photographer Ren Peng, 40, remembers the occasion as if it was only yesterday. Five years ago he visited the hometown of his friend Gu Yan, a member of the Lisu ethnic group, in Yanbian county, Panzhihua, Sichuan province.
Every day from 11 am to around 5 pm, Huang Lianfeng welcomes hundreds of diners to his farmhouse restaurant in Dianjiang county, in Southwest China's Chongqing, as the peony blossom season reaches its peak.
When Dunhuang is mentioned, the most lasting impression is of its historical inheritance, principally the must-visit painted grottos of the Mogao Caves.
Some names are synonymous with a particular field. Such is the case for Chinese paleographer Qiu Xigui.
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