Sixty years ago, The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven, the first animated feature film in color in the country, concluded its four-year production. This movie, inspired by the 16th-century novel Journey to the West, has solidified a unique position for Chinese animation on the global stage.
A series of intangible cultural heritage events will be hosted around the upcoming National Day holiday, to enrich tourism experience and meet the cultural demands of residents and tourists, according to the third quarter media conference by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The Ship of Peace, an exhibition to show the history and rich culture of Quanzhou, is being held at the Fujian Plaza in Beijing until Oct 7, allowing people to feel the charm of this city, where dozens of relic sites and monuments testify its prosperous maritime trade scenes from the 10th to 14th centuries, and inscribed it onto the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 as an "Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China".
A delegation of Chinese publishers on Wednesday showcased more than 700 volumes of premium Chinese books at the 2024 Indonesia International Book Fair (IIBF), held from Sept 25-29 in Jakarta.
Inbound travel orders have surged by 60 percent for the upcoming National Day holiday, which falls from Oct 1 to Oct 7, and the number of trips and tourism consumption are expected to hit a record high according to the latest data released by Chinese online travel agency Trip.com.
With the opening of the 7th Handan Tourism Industry Development Conference in Daming county of Handan city in Hebei province on Sept 21, local museums are delving deeply into the cultural imagery of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), offering a cultural feast that celebrates this rich historical period.
The 2024 Children's Band Battle was held at the NCPA Taihu Stage Art Centre, a complex in Beijing's Tongzhou district, on Sept 21 and 22. Fifteen bands stood out as they showcased their talents onstage.
Artists from Guangdong province, Southern China, showcased the charm of China's Lingnan culture to New Zealanders at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington on Wednesday evening.
At Shaping village kindergarten in a remote area of Central China's Hunan province, a simple meal of pickles and rice was often the only food children received at school. In the past, such a meager children's lunch was not unusual in underdeveloped Yongshun county, nestled in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture.
One of the most outstanding treasures of the best-preserved ancient walled city in China — Pingyao Ancient City in Pingyao county, North China's Shanxi province — is the wall itself.