The Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb 12, is an important occasion for family reunions. The holiday normally marks the largest movement of humans on the planet, but, in light of COVID-19, fewer people will be hitting the road to prevent its further spread. There has been a call for people to celebrate the festival in the places where they are, and avoid cross-region travel.
Awards acknowledge lights of the theater who struggled with the pandemic
The private museum has as its theme the history of the ancient Maritime Silk Road of which Quanzhou was a hub. The Shimao Martime Silk Road Museum of Fujian was established by property developer Shimao Group with active support from the Palace Museum.
Depicted as a child deity with three heads and six arms, Nezha is a famous mythological figure in China, spawning literary works, films, TV series and animated titles.
As the 2021 Spring Festival is approaching, the National Radio and Television Administration -- the country’s top regulator for the sector -- has arranged all television broadcasters and internet streamers to set special programs in top positions to enrich Chinese people’s options for entertainment during the holiday.
The 2021 China and Russia Happy Chinese New Year online concert will be livestreamed on Feb 10, featuring the Bolshoi Theatre Chamber Orchestra and Beijing Symphony Orchestra, performing from the Chamber Hall of Zaryadye Concert Hall and the concert hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
Beijing-based ink artist He Jialin continues the tradition of classical Chinese literati paintings in his work, in which the forms of painting, poetry and calligraphy co-exist in radiance.
Shanghai Museum is famed for an all-encompassing collection of classical Chinese paintings. Normally, every six months it rotates selected works from this assemblage at a permanent display at its Hall of Classical Chinese Paintings.
Ruowang Coping with COVID-19 shows Liu Ruowang's paintings, sculptures and installations to imply the complicated relationships between humankind and nature and other living creatures.
A series of online culture and tourism events will be staged for residents in Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday (Feb 11-17).
Visitors to Haikou, Hainan province in March and onward will be greeted by 16 "Pavilions by the Seaside", a permanent large-scale public art project to be completed over the year, lighting up the coastlines of Haikou Bay and Jiangdong New Area.