It may be an oxymoron but it still rings true, especially these days. More people are realizing the benefits of "less is more" after cutting their life down to the bare necessities.
A cultural event featuring various performances and traditional customs in Beijing's Haidian district celebrating the upcoming Spring Festival was broadcast on Feb 9.
The Ministry of Ecology and Environment is asking the public for cultural and creative works based upon the mascots of China's ecological and environmental protection.
Ancient Chinese Culture: Costume and Adornment, an exhibition newly opened at the National Museum of China, traces the evolution of techniques, aesthetic perspectives, social culture and the values of the country's feudal period embodied in centuries-old clothes, shoes, hats, garments and sewing tools
People had great fun as diverse cultural performances involving paper cutting, dough and sugar figurines and Peking Opera were staged at the Hai'an Museum in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province on Feb 6 to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival.
Hall of Great Treasures gathers more than 240 objects from the Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum's extensive collection of some 100,000 artifacts. It presents the many aspects of the court life of predecessors of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when they resided at the Shenyang palace in Shenyang, Liaoning province, and the early period of the dynasty after it was established in Beijing in 1644.
An exhibition at the National Museum of China set to open on Tuesday will celebrate the upcoming Year of the Ox by showing a selection of ox-themed works from its immense collection. It will navigate the history of the close relationship between humans and oxen, as well as the folk culture, customs and beliefs based on the positive qualities of the ox.
Ancient Chinese Currencies, a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of China, will be reopened on Tuesday to show a variety of coins, ingots and notes from its collection. There will also be vessels, figurines and other objects of antiquity to show the varying roles of currencies in people's lives.
Spring Festival is China's biggest extravaganza and a day for family reunion. Being around family members at the turn of the year is a vital ritual for the Chinese people.
The ox culture in both China and the world dates far back in time, and the examples of symbolism associated with cattle -- from positive connotations of "strength" and "wealth", to more pejorative ones such as "stubborn" and "irritable" -- seem to be shared among cultures of the world. How are the traits of the ox reflected in both the Chinese and English language? How did different cultures view this down-to-earth animal?
About a week before Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, Sergii Kamyshev, the Ukrainian ambassador to China, paid a visit to The Vitality of Art, an ongoing Spring Festival-themed art exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, along with all staff members of the Ukrainian embassy in Beijing, on Feb 4.
The Book of Songs, also known as Shi Jing, is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry. It includes more than 300 works dating back from the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).
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