Parents are discovering the benefits of getting their kids to learn calligraphy.
Since it was launched in 2013, the annual Beijing People's Cultural Consumption Season has offered a rich program of events from July to November, including performances, exhibitions and workshops in both the city center and suburbs.
China Central Television (CCTV) has announced a deal with toy manufacturer Hasbro to produce an animation featuring the Transformers together with the Chinese mythological character, Nezha.
Ma Xiaotian has been painting lotus flowers at his studio in Beijing even in the July heat.
A Confucius museum under construction in the hometown of the ancient Chinese educator and philosopher will be home to more than 700,000 relics, including well-known Confucius family documents, sources with the museum said on Saturday.
Academic "time detectives" from Liverpool have used 3-D digital technology to reveal the face of a Bronze Age farmer who lived in middle England 4,000 years ago.
The French celebrated their national day on the weekend, an occasion that inspires plenty of Champagne-swilling and fine dining.
Italian artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) published one of Michelangelo's two biographies during the Florentine artist's lifetime. He is also known for writing other artists' biographies.
Chinese actress Ma Yili recently apologized online for a comment about the late pop star Michael Jackson in the TV series The First Half of My Life.
The Tang Xianzu International Theater Arts Exchange — a series of programs to pay tribute to Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu and English poet and playwright William Shakespeare — will be held at Fuzhou, in Jiangxi province, Tang's birthplace, from Sept 24 to the end of October.
The martial arts movie Brotherhood of Blades II has moved its premiere to July 19, nearly a month earlier than its original plan.
The third season of Chinese reality TV show Divas Hit the Road recently broadcast its final two episodes, which were filmed in Queensland, Australia.