More than 300 pottery figurines unearthed from tombs dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) are on display at the Shaanxi History Museum in the city of Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, January 15, 2020.
A four-day cultural event kicked off on Thursday in Minsk, capital of Belarus, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 25 this year. Actors from a dance theater in East China's Jiangxi province will stage four performances during the event to help locals enjoy the annua
The 2020 Hunan TV Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast live at 7:30 pm on Saturday. A sub-venue will be set up in Shibadong village in Hunan province, which has been called a model for the nation’s targeted poverty alleviation efforts.
Little did Xi Zhinong, the founder of Wild China Film, a private organization dedicated to documentation and protection of China's endangered wildlife, realize that the photos he took of the green peacock in Yunnan province 20 years ago were actually images of an endangered species and that soon the
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More than any other object, balloons symbolize and epitomize fun. But more advanced versions, those not seen and popped in birthday parties, can play a vital role for humans as they soar into the atmosphere to provide scientific data.
The International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) held the ninth session of the Governing Board in Beijing on Jan 14, 2020.
Lubolang, a famed Chinese restaurant in Shanghai's Yu Garden, recently revamped its interiors and menu in a bid to attract young customers.
Zao Jun, the Kitchen God, is a fair-faced celestial who spends only a few days in the heavenly court of the Jade Emperor. For most of the year, he presides over the heart and hearth of earthly households, guarding the livestock, servants, and most of all the cooking stove.
While the annual lantern show at Yu Garden, a historical tourist site in downtown Shanghai, has been held since 1995 to usher in Spring Festival, this will be the first year that the venue is leveraging artificial intelligence for the event.
The last month of the lunar calendar used to be called the Hunting Month, or La Yue, in more rustic times. That was when traps were set in the wild to catch pheasants, rabbits, deer and wild boar in preparation for the rounds of feasting during Spring Festival, just a week away from now.
Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Jan 17 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
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