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A rare sight to behold

2022-12-23 12:09

The Shanghai Museum is now holding an exhibition featuring Ducklings on a Lotus Pond, an incredibly rare silk tapestry that dates back as far as the 12th century.

24 Solar Terms: 9 things about Winter Solstice

2023-12-22 08:05

The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Winter Solstice (Chinese: 冬至), the 22nd solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 22 and ends on Jan 5.

A winter's tale

2022-12-22 08:07

On Dec 21, 2016, the gate of Yang's Family Temple in Yangjia village, Sanmen county, Taizhou city, Zhejiang province, was decorated with flags and lanterns, and couplets were pasted up. Red candles lit up the smiling faces of the villagers. For the locals, the celebration of dongzhi, or Winter Solstice, the 22nd solar term on Chinese traditional calendar, is no less important than Spring Festival.

Shanghai exhibition marks steelworks' past and future

2022-12-21 15:38

An exhibition now on at China Art Museum pays tribute to the history of steel making in Shanghai. 

Concert featuring ancient poetry set to debut in the US

2022-12-21 10:28

A concert that features Tang Dynasty (618-907) poems is set to hit the United States next month to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year and the 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra's historic 1973 tour of China.

Opting for a career of good taste

2022-12-21 07:54

Zang Chaiyuan has recently been working deep into the night as people are lined up for her steamed buns. The 25-year-old from Yantai, East China's Shandong province, has managed to turn flour into a gold mine through her ingenious maneuvers that breathe modern elements into "Jiaodong huabobo", a popular traditional food dating back more than 300 years, especially in the province's Jiaodong peninsula.

Sci-fi inspired singer praises her roots

2022-12-21 07:34

Clad in flame-red techwear, adorned with ornaments of various sizes, singer-songwriter Zhu Jingxi announced her presence with the stage visuals embodying cyberpunk aesthetics and her intoxicating voice imbued with a certain ethereal beauty.

An ocean of potential

2022-12-20 09:00

Avatar is back, so are Chinese moviegoers. Despite the chilly weather and recent spike in COVID-19 cases, James Cameron's long-awaited Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, which opened in theaters nationwide on Friday, has rekindled the enthusiasm of domestic audiences, with its presale box office surpassing 100 million yuan ($14.3 million) in just three days — quicker than any other movie this year.

Artist depicts 'worlds unseen'

2022-12-20 08:05

Gurmehar Singh moved with her parents from India to China, in 1999, at the age of 5. Over the next 23 years, she lived and studied in Beijing and Tianjin.

Artist's works show the ball that matters

2022-12-19 15:57

Addressing the excitement ignited by the World Cup in Qatar, artist Zhang Fuhua is holding an exhibition, The Ball Matters, simultaneously in three cities, namely in Beijing's 798 art zone, in Changsha, Hunan province, and in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

International film festival opens in China's Hainan

2022-12-19 15:32

The fourth Hainan Island International Film Festival opened Sunday in Sanya, a resort city in South China's Hainan province.

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