A music work by the eminent Chinese American composer Chou Wenchung (1923-2019), Landscapes, for orchestra, was finished in 1949 and premiered by conductor Leopold Stokowski with the San Francisco Symphony in 1953.
The guqin is an ancient Chinese musical instrument with seven strings. These are plucked with the right hand while notes are formed with the left hand.
Patience is one of the key factors in making a guqin, or the seven-stringed Chinese zither. It takes about two years to finish making one, says Sui Yiyang, 37, who has been devoted to guqin-making for over a decade.
When ancient Chinese mentioned qin, a word that now refers to a range of instruments, it would be likely that they were only talking about one instrument — guqin, the seven-stringed zither.
The guqin's melodic sound seems to embody the resonance of Chinese culture, Chen Nan reports.
Shortly ahead of the Children’s Day, Peter Rabbit, the rascal bunny and his friends from British novelist Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s books, jumped into the UCCA Lab in Beijing, ready to take children and adults alike on a new adventure with a themed exhibition that kicked off on Friday.
Recently, a group of students from the Naoma Primary School in Xinghualing district of Taiyuan, Shanxi province gave a special hanfu show — using the traditional Chinese style of clothing — at a sports meet.
Doraemon, the popular cat-shaped robot character that first appeared in a 1969 Japanese manga series, will see its latest feature-length movie open across Chinese theaters on June 1, or the Children's Day.
The Shanghai Theatre Academy unveiled its Memory and Dream of a City exhibition on Sunday, showcasing photos of statues of 50 foreigners to celebrate the city’s cultural connections and "international memories".
With the sound of the Guqin, an image of the classic painting "Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was projected on the covers of books, a comprehensive collection of ancient Chinese paintings that appeared on the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair (KLIBF) with China as a guest of honor. Displayed with light and shadow, the collection has allowed the audiences to immerse themselves in the beauty of ancient Chinese painting art.
Yuz Museum Shanghai is celebrating the opening of its new location at the Shanghai Panlong Tiandi with an exhibition titled "A Journey: A Yuz foundation collection".
The Beijing College Student Dance Festival kicked off at the Beijing Dance Academy on May 27. Eight original dance works were staged, including Sparks of Fire by the Tsinghua University dance troupe, Echo of the Earth by the Beijing Normal University dance troupe and the first episode of the dance poem, The Spring of Yangjialing, by students of the Beijing Dance Academy.
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