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As Dragon Boat Festival approaches, craftsmen in Fangzhuang village of Nantong township in Minhou county of Fuzhou, Fujian province, are working with their axes, saws, chisels and hammers to make dragon boats from cedar and camphor wood.
I first met Wang Fangting, better known as Liaoliao, at a sci-fi conference in Shanghai two years ago. She was a guest speaker, who, when stepping on the stage, apologized that she was so nervous that she had forgotten all she had prepared about her paper-cuttings, which seemed "remote from sci-fi or fantasy".
When 70-year-old Cheng Guizhi hung the first bundle of mugwort herbs above her weathered door-frame at dawn, a dozen livestreaming phones captured the ritual from multiple angles.
Visitors to Yibin in Sichuan province may, sometimes, be caught by surprise to see a large and tranquil mountain in the city's downtown.
On a crisp morning at the Temple of Heaven, a UNESCO World Heritage Site along Beijing's storied Central Axis, a quiet crowd gathers beneath leafy trees.
Cuiping Mountain also has a connection with Ne Zha, a figure in Chinese mythology, with a famous temple on the mountain dedicated to him.
Why do we race dragon boats and wrap sticky rice in large flat leaves every year? What ancient wisdom lies beneath the thunderous drums and fragrant zongzi? From hanging mugwort to wearing sachets, these customs once warded off evil, but today unite us.
At the recent 21st China Shenzhen International Cultural Industries Fair in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, the database of Chinese inscriptions on precipices and the digital gene bank of Mawangdui Pattern presented in the Hunan Pavilion attracted a large number of visitors' attention.
Taiwan lyricist Vincent Fang donated a celadon panel inscribed with his calligraphy to the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature in Beijing on Thursday.
Beating drums, synchronous strokes and an exhilarated crowd. Such spectacles of excitement are no rare scene across China on Duanwu, or Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
The 2025 Beijing Foreign Studies University International Cultural Festival, held on Saturday, attracted Chinese and international students from universities across Beijing along with local residents.
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