A training course was recently offered to teachers in Beijing, with the aim of bringing traditional Chinese opera into primary and middle schools.
A four-volume anthology of modern Chinese lyrics was released in Beijing recently. And it includes lyrics of 1,537 modern Chinese songs from 838 songwriters that were created between 1902 and 2013.
Flourishing in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), purple pottery of Jianshui county in Yunnan province is made from the local "five-color" clay.
NetEase Cloud Music, a subsidiary of the Hangzhou-based internet company, NetEase, held an award ceremony to honor Chinese indie musicians recently at Beijing’s M Space.
In a bonfire party to welcome tourists, the Sani people in Yunnan plastered black charcoal ashes on each other's faces. In ancient times, their ancestors did so to drive away demons. Nowadays, young people do so to express love for others.
Puzhehei scenic area in Qiubei county, Yunnan province, is known for its karst landforms, lakes, mountains, caves and wetlands.
An ancient-style writing ceremony is held at Confucius Temple at Jianshui county, Yunnan province, on Jan 17.
British science fiction television show Doctor Who has released a set of Chinese-style posters recently.
China had 225,000 bookstores and sales outlets for books at the end of 2018, a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year, according to an annual report on the country's bookstore industry released on Jan 8.
Popular titles in China in 2018 other than educational books (ranked by sales, data provided by research firm Openbook)
Sales go up in China, driven by e-commerce and demand for textbooks and educational literature, Xing Yi reports.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Cold (Chinese: 大寒), the 24th solar term, begins this year on Jan 20 and ends on Feb 2.
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