Zhao Yue will never forget the summer day in 2014 when her 5-year-old son, who has autism, said the word "grandpa" in a clear voice. It was the first time Lun Lun (pseudonym) had ever called out to a relative.
Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer to what constitutes good education and parenting, educators, parents and scholars have been trying to learn from well-known figures whose journeys can provide valuable lessons for the next generation.
The distinctive karst landscapes of Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, particularly its unusual mountains, fascinated preeminent modern painters like Liu Haisu (1896-1994) and Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010).
Lian Mian has seen his fair share of porcelain. Yet, when the art history professor from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, stepped into the quiet halls of the Regional Ethnographic Museum of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 2023, a Chinese porcelain vase dating back to 1954 caught him off guard.
China has been a source of fascination for much of my life, right from my childhood reading stories about the great country of the East in comics and storybooks to watching kung fu (which I'd later learn the word is actually gongfu) movies.
In a well-lit studio, 18-year-old Dong Run shyly introduced a carved lacquer plaque to arts and crafts masters who stepped into an art school in early April.
In a lush tea garden in the southern Chinese city of Huizhou, Guangdong province, a humanoid robot named Xunxiao delicately plucks tender tea leaves alongside workers.
Some 20 years ago at Beijing's Poly Theatre, tenor Dai Yuqiang starred as Alfredo Germont in La Traviata alongside soprano Yao Hong as Violetta Valery.
As the April sun bathes Yunnan province in golden light, the Dai ethnic inhabitants have transformed their homeland into a jubilant aquatic playground for the annual poshuijie, or water splashing festival, which has attracted visitors from China and abroad.
Shuangjiang county in Linchang city, Southwest China's Yunnan province, welcomed the traditional Water-Splashing Festival on April 16. Tourists joined locals in passing on blessings as they splashed water on each other.
Tan Yingjie's ongoing exhibition at the Wind H Art Center in Beijing shows how urban development has reshaped people's sense of space and time, living experiences and memories.
Conducted by Huang Yi, the Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Thursday.