For people who are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the version being exhibited at the Palace Museum in Beijing may look familiar yet peculiar.
Melodious plays provide a backdrop for enthusiasts to don extravagant dress and makeup, Cheng Yuezhu reports.
Century Masters, a docuseries celebrating prominent Chinese figures during the 20th century, started filming its third season which opens with the life story of China's leading mathematician and educator, Su Buqing.
Cultural exchanges and fusion have produced creative thinking and sustainable development, Lyu Zhou said during a session at the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Beijing.
A new kind of reality show that dispenses with judges and focuses on indie acts is providing the soundtrack of the summer, Chen Nan reports.
Chinese political advisors during a consultation session Friday offered proposals on building a cultural belt along the Grand Canal to protect it.
A well-preserved Neolithic settlement site has been discovered in east China's Shandong province, local archaeological authorities said.
Visitor arrivals to Macao totaled 3.43 million in April, up by 15.9 percent year-on-year, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said here on Thursday.
When Reginald Johnston, a British scholar, first walked into the Forbidden City in the spring of 1919, the vast walled enclosure in the heart of Beijing was "in the strictest sense 'forbidden' to all the world except those who had the entree."
In China, food has always played a major role in promoting social cohesion. Communal eating is not only familybased and deeply rooted in the nation's cultural heritage, but is also regarded as an indicator of society's health and stability.
During the last six years, Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun has traveled to the ancient city of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, multiple times to study and document the Mogao Caves.
Throughout the decades, Wu Weishan, director of the National Art Museum of China, and a sculptor in his own right, has built a unique language of sculpture by introducing the Chinese artistic philosophy of xieyi (depicting spirit) into his work.
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