It was 6 am, and a team of six students from Beijing's Tsinghua University finally breathed a sigh of relief after an arduous 72 hours of competition.
Incense smoke, coiling lazily upward, can evoke memories, induce a feeling of relaxation and even take our minds to places we've never been to. The burning stick is reminiscent of another time, another place－as the song goes, "the images unwind... in the windmills of our mind". Incense maker Lu Wen believes history is not just words on paper, but that it can come alive in the imagination triggered by smell.
Surrounded by sculpture-making tools like carving knives, brushes and pigments, Li Chunyu picks up an unfinished polymer clay figurine of a rabbit and coats its hair in white with a brush.
Confucius (551-479 BC) is China's great philosopher and educator. His doctrine on etiquette and benevolence has profoundly influenced China and the world.
Four Chinese artists have recently been included in the Timeless Immortal Art project based at Merì, in Italy's Sicily region.
The 2021 "Happy Chinese New Year" New Zealand Music Competition, hosted by the China Cultural Center in Wellington and New Zealand Music Foundation, opened at the Hunter Council Chamber in Victoria University of Wellington.
Donald Stone, a guest professor of the Department of English at Peking University and winner of the Chinese Government Friendship Award, died in New York on Jan 21. He was 79.
Gathering on the Summit shows paintings, calligraphic works, sculptures and prints by 28 artists in their 60s working at the China National Academy of Painting in Beijing. The exhibition, which runs through Feb 20, examines the diverse approaches to art by the featured artists, who are recognized as the leading figures of the country's art scene.
On May 12, 2008, our planet ripped itself apart, and a portal to hell opened on Earth in Sichuan province.
Zhang Xiaoli is an alias. And the life of the 34-year-old housewife who lives in Minfeng village in Yuhang district in western Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, is also different.
ADDIS ABABA－Ethiopia is seeking to boost its partnership with China in the tourism sector as part of a wider 10-year development plan.
For poetry lovers, the Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, is a must-do pilgrimage.
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