Animated blockbuster tops the film charts with a heroic reframing of the oft-maligned, three-eyed deity Yang Jian, Xu Fan reports.
A daylong "marathon" event highlighting traditional Chinese musical instruments was held at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, on Aug 27.
This year's Beijing theater festival will include a section on traditional art forms such as Quju Opera, Chen Nan reports.
Ancient books, inscribed bronzeware, newspapers or food vouchers that carry distinct marks of different times, tapes, and even the first line of the code created to check people's COVID-19 test results, are all the "edition resources" that record the historical process of a culture.
As the Hangzhou branch of the China National Archives of Publications and Culture welcomed its first visitors in early August, it became another landmark in the capital city of East China's Zhejiang province.
With a past stretching back millennia, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has a proud history of preserving its traditions and heritage. It is home to the Terracotta Warriors, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and an ancient city wall. It is also the cradle of the ancient Silk Road trade route.
The Guangzhou branch of the National Archives of Publications and Culture, also known as Wenqin Pavilion, has become a cultural landmark in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. It demonstrates profound Chinese culture as well as the distinctive Lingnan (roughly South China) style and displays the characteristics and essence of the times.
The Grand Canal is a flowing epic of transformation. The artificial waterway runs more than 2,000 kilometers from north to south across the vast eastern plains of China. Since its digging began in the 5th century BC, it has witnessed dynastic transitions, and has been an eloquent testimony to landscape changes, offering an economic lifeline to people living on its banks.
Chang Fuyao, 79, recalls the olden times when more than 10,000 cargo vessels lined up for kilometers along the length of the Grand Canal in Beijing and the chanteys of the boatmen could be heard for days at a stretch.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary, so said Spanish artist Pablo Picasso whose irrepressible genius spanned nine decades. Wu Liren has been maintaining such a "diary" of the Grand Canal for more than 40 years.
China is home to 56 UNESCO World Heritage sites. To find out how these natural and cultural gems still shine and continue to inspire the nation in this new era of development, China Daily is running a series of reports covering 10 groups of selected sites from across the country.
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