Editor's note: There are 43 items inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage lists that not only bear witness to the past glories of Chinese civilization, but also continue to shine today.
The Gateway to Arts summer festival will be launched by the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.
A gala, featuring artists from the Chinese mainland and Macao Special Administrative Region, was staged at the Macao Cultural Centre on June 20, kicking off the annual event, titled Spring of Haojiang River, which runs until Friday.
A biographical film about Shen Jilan, the late recipient of the Medal of the Republic and China's longest-serving national lawmaker, premiered in Beijing on Sunday, and will be officially released in domestic theaters on Wednesday.
Zhang Ning, a retired Olympic gold medalist, couldn't hold her tears when recollecting her Uber Cup debut in 1994 at which the badminton player lost in a key match, at a recent speech in Beijing.
China saw 106 million domestic trips during the Duanwu (Dragon Boat Festival) holiday from June 22 to 24, up 32.3 percent year-on-year, which was 112.8 percent of that over the same period in 2019 on a comparable basis, yicai.com reported on Sunday, quoting data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Delicate strokes, carved onto wood, with ultimate precision. This is woodblock printing, an ancient printing technique that propelled human civilization.
When he was 5 years old, Natan Colombo's parents took him to a Chinese restaurant, a rarity in his home city of Milan, Italy, at the time. He never imagined that experience would herald a future bond with China.
Yao Bin and his two children spent a long time studying a large brick-carved artwork during their visit to a theme park in Shunde, Guangdong province, late last month.
A work based on a classic novel was produced and staged by the Peking Opera Theatre of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group in 1998, and it immediately became a phenomenon.
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