"Hongbin silk painting is a craftsmanship using cotton to express art," said Yuan Hongbing, an inheritor of the age-old craft who has been working in this industry for nearly 40 years.
The gong, also called a "ringer", is a traditional Chinese metal instrument that produces loud and long sounds. Having no fixed pitch, there are many shapes and types of gongs that deliver varying sound quality.
A cultural heritage inheritance and innovation competition themed on Beijing central axis concluded on Thursday.
China's first batch of folk music promotion centers was unveiled in Beijing on Thursday in a new effort to help promote traditional Chinese music and develop public cultural services.
An exhibition held from Jan 1 to Jan 5 at Rongbao Zhai in Beijing shows 60 works by Wen, in which she adopts minimalism and employs carefree strokes to illustrate the essence of her subjects.
The New Year’s Concert at Shanghai Symphony Hall will feature the string ensemble Shanghai Quartet.
Chinese spy thriller "Cliff Walkers" won three of the 34th Golden Rooster Awards on Thursday.
Swiss financial giant UBS has sponsored the Beijing Music Festival, or BMF, for 17 years, to promote musical talent in China and enhance cultural connections among musicians from around the world, said Eugene Qian, chairman of UBS Securities.
To mark the centennial of the birth of modern Chinese archaeology, a multi-volume work has been published, honoring generations of researchers who have devoted themselves to unearthing and decoding the country's history.
Concertgoing has for years been a popular way of celebrating the new year in Shanghai, and this year would prove to be no different, given the slew of performances scheduled to take place.
When I was growing up in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I was subjected to all manner of negative talk about China. Political and economic criticism abounded at that time in the US.
The China Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Ballet of China will perform a concert together at the Poly Theater in Beijing on Friday.
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