The image of the ancient Chinese sage and educator Confucius was vividly presented in various forms of intangible cultural heritage items recently.
On Oct 7 and 8, the school staged its latest dance piece, Sing a Song for the Party, at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, marking the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Veteran Peking Opera performers Du Zhenjie and Zhang Huifang joined in the Culture Tour of Peking Opera Master Forum, which was launched by the Beijing Overseas Cultural Exchanges Center.
During the weeklong National Holiday, Jiulong Immersive, a multidimensional Huaiju Opera show, premiered at the Jiulongkou Scenic Area, in Jianhu county, East China's Jiangsu province.
At the Niya ruins site in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, an antique brocade armband, with embroidered characters roughly translating to "five stars rise in the east and benefit China", left many with room for imagination.
Titled As Real As Illusion, Yu's latest show in Beijing exhibits ink paintings he created in the past few years.
Most people read poems in books or online, but residents in Chengdu, Sichuan province, get to read 1,455 ancient poems on stone tablets.
A news conference for the ninth Wuzhen Theater Festival was hosted on Sept 29 in Beijing, where three founders, Huang Lei, Stan Lai and Meng Jinghui, together with the festival's executive director Nai-chu Ding, introduced the festival's theme, productions and highlights.
With lion dances, Chinese kung fu, Chinese crosstalk, songs and dances, and award-winning speeches, students from across New Zealand showcased their Chinese language proficiency in the annual "Chinese Bridge" event.
TV series highlights heroic deeds at different eras of China's story, Xu Lin reports.
Sitting on a scaffolding platform, Liu Zhicheng gives the final touches to a painting of lotus flowers and cranes. With brushes and paints he makes the two cranes look vivid — flapping their wings and ready to catch a fish — on the wall of a building in Yongsheng county, Lijiang city, Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Editor's note: China's ancient wisdom informs its contemporary leadership. In this series, China Daily explores how age-old principles and philosophies continue to steer the country's governance.
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