The spirit of providing timely help to those in need is manifested in the Chinese idiom xue zhong song tan, which literally means "to send charcoal in snowy weather".
Earlier last month, I attended a fascinating talk about the disappearing sounds of the hutong, auditory artifacts like the song of candied hawthorn vendors, the jingle of camel coal trains, the blind fortune-teller and his one-handed tongdian gong, and the ethereal, theremin-like sound of the pigeon whistle.
Atmospheric poetry of the Song Dynasty (960-1271), considered a peak of Chinese literature, nurtured Fang Jun, the late ink artist and a former professor at Nanjing University of the Arts.
As part of the 2021 season of the China Theater Festival, The Story of the Writer Lu Yao will be staged on March 5 and 6 at the Capital Theater in Beijing.
The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has launched a series of videos, titled Beijing: More Than Meets the Eye, to showcase the capital's beauty.
A service platform for global Winter Olympics communications, mainly set up by Beijing International Studies University, has been set up to provide comprehensive information on the 2022 Games and help international viewers learn more about Chinese culture.
In All day long for Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Segev explored with the resemblance between local music and the sounds of his hometown.
Researchers have discovered that, over the past 70 years cetacean (aquatic) strandings on beaches occurred more frequently in spring.
NANCHANG/MOSCOW－Trofimova Iuliia could not help humming the Russian song Cranes Flock when she saw Siberian white cranes dancing less than 20 meters away by Poyang, China's largest freshwater lake.
Half a century after Chinese-American writer Nieh Hua-ling's monograph Shen Ts'ung-wen was published in the United States, a Chinese version has finally been released domestically.
Few would have expected that spectators at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics would include animals. And yet, coverage of the event featured several sightings of wildlife, particularly leopard cats apparently seeking to get in on the action.
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will hold the first public performance on the Chinese mainland of Die Seejungfrau, a symphony piece by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) that is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, on Feb 26.
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