To celebrate Chinese New Year, an army of illuminated Terracotta Warriors will light up Sydney Harbor from Feb 19, Lunar New Year's Day.
The Lantern Festival, the first significant feast after Spring Festival that falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, will be celebrated in Hong Kong on March 6.
The Fifth Cross-strait Chinese New Year Temple Fair will be held in Taichung, Taiwan from Feb 19 to Feb 22, the first five days of the lunar year.
Yin Rongfa, the 79-year-old craftsman, is the last inheritor of wood pattern carving in Danyang in East China's Jiangsu province. In the past, wood patterns were used to create articles of tribute used in worshiping the ancestors in the village.
A well-preserved tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty has been confirmed as being that of a "diplomatic representative" of the Queen of Zhou, according to Xinhua.
A set of special stamps themed with Chinese traditional solar terms were issued for the first time on Feb 4 – the Start of Spring, based on the lunar calendar.
As part of a series of events to help ring in the upcoming Chinese New Year, the annual temple fair at the Temple of Earth in Beijing will be taken abroad for the first. The inaugural event will be held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand on Feb 10, 2015.
Folk artist Dai Wanzhi shows his 21-meter-long painting which keeps a record of Shehuo performance in Daijia village of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province in the 1950s.
China has applied for World Heritage status for the ancient rock carvings of the Huashan Mountain in Guangxi Province in 2016.
A massive collection of porcelain is seen in the wrecked ship Nanhai One at a museum in Hailing, South China's Guangdong province, Jan 29, 2015. The 30-meter-long merchant vessel, built during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), sank off the coast of Guangdong province about 800 years ago.
The Palace Museum is to open five new tourist spots this year to mark its 90th birthday，raising the public area to 65%.
The 85 items of important scientific and technological inventions of ancient China were recently announced by the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Science.
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