LUANDA — Wearing traditional Chinese clothes, more than 50 students from a university in Angola participated in a competition to showcase their knowledge about Chinese culture.
Bai Baoyu, director of Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, shares with China Daily the significance of Hongshan Culture and the major archaeological findings over the years.
Important archaeological discoveries of societies dating back 5,000 to 6,000 years have been made in many regions of China.
Alarge Hongshan settlement site has been discovered in Shangchaoyanggou village, just 6.5 kilometers from the Niuheliang archaeological site in Chaoyang city, Northeast China's Liaoning province, according to the latest research by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
Prior to Wednesday, it had been about five years since the Martha Graham Dance Company last performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. As a way to celebrate the return, the company had two performances on Wednesday and Thursday. These featured three works: Appalachian Spring, Immediate Tragedy and Canticle for Innocent Comedians, which kicked off its China tour.
The 29th Beijing International Book Fair will kick off on Thursday, with approximately 900 overseas exhibitors accounting for 60 percent of participants.
For Chinese curator Wang Naiyi, the word care carries a lot of meanings, takes multiple forms, and could be interpreted through different dimensions. That is the underlying theme of the Care Pavilion that she curated for this year's London Design Biennale, which opened on June 1 and runs until June 25.
A group of 10 exhibitors representing the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, polish their products at the 19th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair in Guangdong province.
In the age of the internet, vinyl records make a surprising comeback, Chen Nan reports.
A seminar on a new biographical movie based on the story of Fan Shufeng, a police officer who was bestowed with the "hero model" title by the Ministry of Public Security, was held in Beijing on Tuesday.
The Grand Canal, built in the 5th century BC, is a vast waterway system running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang Province in the south. Around 9,000 kilometers away from Beijing, in Italy, the 2,300-year-old Appian Way connects Rome to the city of Brindisi in the southeast. The two ancient transport routes were once significant national thoroughfares, with some sections still in use today. The Grand Canal was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list in 2014 and local authorities along the waterway have been working on environmental protection efforts and cultural park building for years. Coincidentally, the Appia Regina Viarum Project was launched in 2016 with around $22 million investment to restore the Appian Way for walking again. The ancient road is in a bid for a World Heritage status. Grand Canal
Shi Jinsong, who came to prominence at the age of 17 and now aged 54, is best known as a contemporary sculptor. In fact, he has explored a variety of art forms, including sculpture, installation, multimedia video and theater experiments. Shi's artworks have been exhibited in world-renowned art venues, reflecting his understanding of traditional Chinese culture and contemporary art. He hopes his works will spark a conversation among viewers and stimulate thinking, rather than passively convey an idea.
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