Editor's note: There are 43 items inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage lists that not only bear witness to the past glories of Chinese civilization, but also continue to shine today.
The Gateway to Arts summer festival will be launched by the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.
A gala, featuring artists from the Chinese mainland and Macao Special Administrative Region, was staged at the Macao Cultural Centre on June 20, kicking off the annual event, titled Spring of Haojiang River, which runs until Friday.
A biographical film about Shen Jilan, the late recipient of the Medal of the Republic and China's longest-serving national lawmaker, premiered in Beijing on Sunday, and will be officially released in domestic theaters on Wednesday.
Zhang Ning, a retired Olympic gold medalist, couldn't hold her tears when recollecting her Uber Cup debut in 1994 at which the badminton player lost in a key match, at a recent speech in Beijing.
Delicate strokes, carved onto wood, with ultimate precision. This is woodblock printing, an ancient printing technique that propelled human civilization.
Homage to 1953, an exhibition at Tsinghua University Art Museum, shows a selection of objects displayed at the 1953 event to review its importance to the evolution of Chinese arts and crafts.
Yao Bin and his two children spent a long time studying a large brick-carved artwork during their visit to a theme park in Shunde, Guangdong province, late last month.
A work based on a classic novel was produced and staged by the Peking Opera Theatre of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group in 1998, and it immediately became a phenomenon.
When Li Degjin got onstage and started dancing, audiences were intrigued by his movements. The maneuvering of his hands, shoulders and legs originate from the nomadic way of life in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The just concluded Dragon Boat Festival – which has cemented itself as a lucrative box office season in recent years – raked in a whooping 909 million yuan ($126.6 million), propelling it to become the second highest-grossing period of all time, only slightly lower than the 2018 figure of 912 million yuan, according to China Film Administration, the country's top sector regulator.
The famed Longjing — or Dragon Well — tea has been grown for decades in Potang village, a misty rural community half an hour's drive from downtown Shaoxing, Zhejiang province.
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