Chinese consumers unleashed their massive purchasing power during the eight-day Spring Festival holiday, which ran from Feb 10 to Saturday, with homegrown brands that weave traditional Chinese cultural elements into their designs, health-related commodities, jewelry and electronic devices gaining in popularity, especially among younger shoppers, experts said.
A message from my mobile health app reminded me that I'd burned fewer kilocalories over the last nine weeks. It used to record 10,000 steps on average, the equivalent of walking 6-8 kilometers, and up to 36,000 steps, or nearly 28 km, on weekends.
"In the flowing sands, I seek my own voice. Calling out to life: I love you, myself." This poem was by Wang Yiming, a performer and blogger with hearing loss.
TIANJIN — During the Spring Festival holiday, tourists tried their hands at making Lunar New Year woodblock prints at a folk culture center in Yangliuqing township in Tianjin municipality.
While many awards recognize and support outstanding photographers in China, there are very few that celebrate curators, who are also instrumental in researching and bringing themed exhibitions of photography and moving images to the public, whether in physical or virtual spaces.
Apart from the life-size Terracotta Warriors buried in the mausoleum of Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite China more than 2,000 years ago, bronze aquatic birds also accompanied him into the afterlife.
Dressed in the costumes of the 2,500-year-old Chu culture, Zhou Zhou, a marketing manager at the Chu King's Mausoleum at the Xiongjiazhong National Archaeological Heritage Park in Jingzhou, Hubei province, begins work.
On a bitterly cold Beijing evening in late November, 27-year-old Li Chuhan was one of thousands of spectators mesmerized by a light show that looked like spectacular scenes from a Harry Potter movie.
A new museum will soon open in Anyang, Henan province, to display the brilliance of the 3,000-year-old Shang civilization, the National Cultural Heritage Administration announced at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.
Tai chi, a gentle and meditative Chinese health and martial art, is more effective than a vigorous aerobic workout in lowering blood pressure, thus offering a nondrug option for early-stage patients to control hypertension, according to a recent study led by Chinese researchers.
A bilingual comic book by Zheng Xinyao was released in Shanghai this month.