Traditional celebrations for the Chinese New Year have been given a modern touch: family reunion dinners on lunar New Year's Eve have gradually moved from home tables to restaurants; sending and receiving digital red envelopes is all the rage; traveling, cinema- and museum-going with family members prevail as holiday activities.
A Chinese archaeologist has accidentally discovered a 1,500-year-old mini-statue hidden in a small hole in the Yungang Grottoes in North China's Shanxi province.
Li Xia, a Manchu paper-cutting artist in Jilin city, Jilin province, recently finished a collection that includes 100 dog paper-cuts in different shapes to welcome the Year of the Dog.
A new tourist route on a Spanish-administered archipelago off the west coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean will soon be opened for Chinese travelers in commemoration of the late writer Sanmao, according to local tourism authorities.
Chinese actor Ge You has won a lawsuit against a travel company that used his image without permission.
Artists perform Lu Opera in Nanlou village of Subu town in Yu'an district of Lu'an city, East China's Anhui province.
The Franklin Institute, a museum in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, pledged on Friday to protect a set of China's terracotta warrior statues with the "utmost care and reverence," after a man stole a statue's thumb.
In the Chinese restaurant of Chefchaouen, one of the top tourist attractions in Morocco, a dining area of less than 100 square meters was filled with more than a hundred Chinese tourists, with a lot more waiting outside, during the Chinese Spring Festival.
Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue.
Domestic sportswear brand Li-Ning is looking to revive its fortunes and take on global players with its new street-savvy collection.
SHIJIAZHUANG - Li Zhengjie says people in his village were born "shouldered" with a nearby ancient bridge. In his eyes, the 1,400-year-old Zhaozhou Bridge they have been so proud of has become a reason for their falling behind China's urbanization drive.
"Humans are always traveling, trading and exchanging thoughts," says a voice in the background as a fashion show called the Night of Fashion Beijing starts at the Beijing Exhibition Center.
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