Cao Guiyuan has had a busy harvest season on her peach plantation in Central China's Hubei province.
As Xia Yuanfang strolled along the Songhua River with her family, she was glad of the mild northern weather, a welcome change from the hot, humid environment of her hometown in Guangdong province. "It's cool here in summer. It's comfortable drinking beer and listening to music," says Xia, who took a river tour in Harbin, capital of China's northernmost Heilongjiang province.
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.
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.
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.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, (Chinese: 寒露), the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, (Chinese: 寒露), the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23.
Weihai, a coastal city of Shandong province, has built a 1,001-kilometer route that strings together picturesque coastal and mountainous landscapes to further develop its tourism sector and rural areas.
Starting with an ancient painting, the viewers find themselves surrounded by the artistic scene of “plucking chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge and gazing long at the distant Southern hills”.
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