The annual public assessment of dancers of the National Ballet of China was held with two performances on May 26 and 27 at Tianqiao Theater.
As a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), it was announced that a 100-episode documentary series and a feature-length movie launched production in Beijing.
As a national treasure and a cultural icon of China, giant pandas have won the hearts of many across the globe and are certainly popular with children. With the International Children's Day approaching, the Kung Fu Panda-themed section at the Universal Beijing Resort is expected to be filled with laughter while greeting kids from across the country.
Iconic Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, along with heroes from the Marvel Universe, greet residents and tourists at a street in Shanghai, as 2023 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Walt Disney Company.
Craftsmen are busy making colored glaze products at the Lyu family factory in Hejin, Shanxi province. The styles are often seem in ancient architecture, such as palaces, tombs, monasteries, temples and pagodas. The skills were listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
"Florence Griffith Joyner, the fastest female sprinter, dead or alive; her best time 10:49 seconds", a channel on YouTube chimed, like a wake-up call, as I tried to turn off my phone alarm one groggy weekend morning and inadvertently turned on the video-sharing app.
A music work by the eminent Chinese American composer Chou Wenchung (1923-2019), Landscapes, for orchestra, was finished in 1949 and premiered by conductor Leopold Stokowski with the San Francisco Symphony in 1953.
The guqin is an ancient Chinese musical instrument with seven strings. These are plucked with the right hand while notes are formed with the left hand.
Patience is one of the key factors in making a guqin, or the seven-stringed Chinese zither. It takes about two years to finish making one, says Sui Yiyang, 37, who has been devoted to guqin-making for over a decade.
When ancient Chinese mentioned qin, a word that now refers to a range of instruments, it would be likely that they were only talking about one instrument — guqin, the seven-stringed zither.
The guqin's melodic sound seems to embody the resonance of Chinese culture, Chen Nan reports.
Shortly ahead of the Children’s Day, Peter Rabbit, the rascal bunny and his friends from British novelist Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s books, jumped into the UCCA Lab in Beijing, ready to take children and adults alike on a new adventure with a themed exhibition that kicked off on Friday.
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