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).
Awards acknowledge lights of the theater who struggled with the pandemic
The private museum has as its theme the history of the ancient Maritime Silk Road of which Quanzhou was a hub. The Shimao Martime Silk Road Museum of Fujian was established by property developer Shimao Group with active support from the Palace Museum.
As the 2021 Spring Festival is approaching, the National Radio and Television Administration -- the country’s top regulator for the sector -- has arranged all television broadcasters and internet streamers to set special programs in top positions to enrich Chinese people’s options for entertainment during the holiday.
The 2021 China and Russia Happy Chinese New Year online concert will be livestreamed on Feb 10, featuring the Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Orchestra and Beijing Symphony Orchestra, performing from the Chamber Hall of Zaryadye Concert Hall and the concert hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Beijing-based ink artist He Jialin continues the tradition of classical Chinese literati paintings in his work, in which the forms of painting, poetry and calligraphy co-exist in radiance.
Shanghai Museum is famed for an all-encompassing collection of classical Chinese paintings. Normally, every six months it rotates selected works from this assemblage at a permanent display at its Hall of Classical Chinese Paintings.
Ruowang Coping with COVID-19 shows Liu Ruowang's paintings, sculptures and installations to imply the complicated relationships between humankind and nature and other living creatures.
A series of online culture and tourism events will be staged for residents in Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday (Feb 11-17).