In 2025, Chinese culture came alive in new ways. Tradition met innovation and culture became part of everyday life. The following ten cultural events stood out as some of the most memorable moments of 2025.
The Jingpo Lake scenic area in Mudanjiang, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, recently held its annual winter ice fishing festival, alongside a competitive ice fishing contest.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing was filled with the soft sounds of bamboo flutes and the elegant resonance of traditional Chinese instruments on Jan 18, as the "Poetic Homeland — Greater Bay Area Chinese Traditional Music Concert" by Yeung Wai-kit and Sha Jingshan unfolded.
To showcase the rich heritage and artistic vitality of Chinese literature to the world, the International Department of the China Writers Association and China Daily have jointly launched the Chinese Literature Special Section on the China Daily website.
In his nonfiction work Jiangnan Qiwu Zhi (A Chronicle of Jiangnan Artifacts), published in July by Yilin Press, writer Xu Feng tells a story of a carpenter in Qiyin town, a fictional location in Jiangnan, the region to the south of China's Yangtze River.
HEFEI — Civilizations rise and fall, yet some endure. At the Anhui Museum in eastern China, a recent exhibition of ancient gold and silver artifacts offered visitors an unusually intimate glimpse into how power, belief and daily life played out — not through texts, but through precious metals.
In 2004, a groundbreaking discovery shocked the public: archaeologists excavating the foundations of the Epang Palace site, in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, announced they had discovered that the legendary complex had never been completed. Furthermore, they concluded that the story that the palace had been torched by the late Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) warlord Xiang Yu was, in fact, false.
The music conference, themed "Connecting the World with Original Music", concluded in Beijing on Saturday.
Animated anthology returns, blending ancient stories and sharp visuals, Wang Xin reports in Shanghai.
Mark Brownlow, a veteran director known for the BBC's award-winning Frozen Planet II and Blue Planet II, has faced danger numerous times in his decades-long career as a wildlife filmmaker. Surprisingly, the creature that once filled him with more unease than any other was the horse.
Yearlong event celebrates international cuisine as the metropolis focuses on becoming the center of cultural intersections for diners, Zheng Zheng reports.
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