At the Niya ruins site in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, an antique brocade armband, with embroidered characters roughly translating to "five stars rise in the east and benefit China", left many with room for imagination.
Most people read poems in books or online, but residents in Chengdu, Sichuan province, get to read 1,455 ancient poems on stone tablets.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region poured more than 3.8 billion yuan (about $535.2 million) into 386 cultural heritage conservation projects in the past decade, both record high figures, authorities said on Saturday.
China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) saw a recovery in the tourism market during the National Day holiday thanks to its sound epidemic-containment situation and promotional festive events.
On Oct 6, the director of the China Cultural Center in Malta, Yuan Yuan, presented a selection of cultural and educational materials from China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the Science China Corner of St Margaret College Secondary School, Verdala in Cospicua, Malta.
A news conference for the ninth Wuzhen Theater Festival was hosted on Sept 29 in Beijing, where three founders, Huang Lei, Stan Lai and Meng Jinghui, together with the festival's executive director Nai-chu Ding, introduced the festival's theme, productions and highlights.
About 422 million domestic trips were made in China during this year's National Day holiday, according to the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
With lion dances, Chinese kung fu, Chinese crosstalk, songs and dances, and award-winning speeches, students from across New Zealand showcased their Chinese language proficiency in the annual "Chinese Bridge" event.
TV series highlights heroic deeds at different eras of China's story, Xu Lin reports.
Sitting on a scaffolding platform, Liu Zhicheng gives the final touches to a painting of lotus flowers and cranes. With brushes and paints he makes the two cranes look vivid — flapping their wings and ready to catch a fish — on the wall of a building in Yongsheng county, Lijiang city, Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Editor's note: China's ancient wisdom informs its contemporary leadership. In this series, China Daily explores how age-old principles and philosophies continue to steer the country's governance.