Monks and monkeys dwell in temples and treetops. Clouded leopards creep through actual clouds that coil like bracelets around two giant stone "hands" pressed together in prayer.
Downtown Guiyang, Guizhou, holds "roadside concerts" that thousands of people attend free of charge every New Year's Eve. Revelers rang in 2025 with singing, dancing, lights and fireworks.
There's a folk saying in multiethnic southwestern China that goes: "Costume, a great philosophy of life, is a dialogue between the heart and the outside world and the soul that's worn on the body."
Wintertime in Guizhou province is a time and place where people move to the silent "song of ice and fire".
A sharing seminar is held during the launch of The Artworks Exhibition of Canal Chic: Reviving China's Heritage in Beijing on Jan 22, 2025. [Photo provided tochinadaily.com.cn]The Artworks Exhibition of Canal Chic: Reviving China's Heritage, showcasing dozens of paintings, illustrations and posters themed on the Grand Canal, was launched with a sharing seminar on Wednesday at the Kerry Center in Beijing.
Prince Kung's Palace Museum in Beijing is hosting woodblock printing and ancient porcelain exhibitions for visitors to experience traditional Chinese culture during the Spring Festival holiday.
Beijing Normal University's original musical Today and Me was staged at the Lao She Theater in Beijing from Jan 16 to 18, paying tribute to China's normal school pioneers around 100 years back.
From the Monkey King who rides the clouds to a woman runner glittered in the morning glory, the works of Li Xiangqun, a sculptor of repute, have evoked in the audience collective memories, feelings and anticipation.
It was popular during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to paint and write on paper fans. Despite the difficulty, artists managed to reproduce landscapes and poems on the folds, lending the fans a sense of romanticism and magnificence.
On Jan 20, the "Walking Reunion Dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve" event, was successfully held in Seoul, South Korea.
In a modest residential area in Ansai, a district of Yan'an city in Shaanxi province, an artist's hands dance across sheets of vibrant red paper. The rhythmic snip-snip-snip of her scissors fills the quiet atmosphere, creating intricate patterns that tell stories of ancient traditions, family tales and the ever-present beauty of rural China.
An exhibition showcasing 64 archives of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) concerning his wishes for Chinese New Year kicked off at The First Historical Archives of China in Beijing on Wednesday.
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