The annual public assessment of dancers of the National Ballet of China was held with two performances on May 26 and 27 at Tianqiao Theater.
As a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), it was announced that a 100-episode documentary series and a feature-length movie launched production in Beijing.
Craftsmen are busy making colored glaze products at the Lyu family factory in Hejin, Shanxi province. The styles are often seem in ancient architecture, such as palaces, tombs, monasteries, temples and pagodas. The skills were listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
"Florence Griffith Joyner, the fastest female sprinter, dead or alive; her best time 10:49 seconds", a channel on YouTube chimed, like a wake-up call, as I tried to turn off my phone alarm one groggy weekend morning and inadvertently turned on the video-sharing app.
The guqin is an ancient Chinese musical instrument with seven strings. These are plucked with the right hand while notes are formed with the left hand.
Patience is one of the key factors in making a guqin, or the seven-stringed Chinese zither. It takes about two years to finish making one, says Sui Yiyang, 37, who has been devoted to guqin-making for over a decade.
When ancient Chinese mentioned qin, a word that now refers to a range of instruments, it would be likely that they were only talking about one instrument — guqin, the seven-stringed zither.
The guqin's melodic sound seems to embody the resonance of Chinese culture, Chen Nan reports.
Recently, a group of students from the Naoma Primary School in Xinghualing district of Taiyuan, Shanxi province gave a special hanfu show — using the traditional Chinese style of clothing — at a sports meet.
Doraemon, the popular cat-shaped robot character that first appeared in a 1969 Japanese manga series, will see its latest feature-length movie open across Chinese theaters on June 1, or the Children's Day.
Yuz Museum Shanghai is celebrating the opening of its new location at the Shanghai Panlong Tiandi with an exhibition titled "A Journey: A Yuz foundation collection".
The Beijing College Student Dance Festival kicked off at the Beijing Dance Academy on May 27. Eight original dance works were staged, including Sparks of Fire by the Tsinghua University dance troupe, Echo of the Earth by the Beijing Normal University dance troupe and the first episode of the dance poem, The Spring of Yangjialing, by students of the Beijing Dance Academy.
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