This year's festival, which takes place from May 1 to 25, includes 27 concerts by musicians from all over the world.
Noel Su Nuoyi, a Spanish social media influencer with over 3 million followers on short-video platforms like Douyin, says an unexpected encounter with an android charmed his mother when she visited China following its recent visa relaxations for inbound visitors.
In Crete, the birthplace of the Greek god Zeus, legendary architect Daedalus was inspired to create a labyrinth beside the rolling waves of the Aegean Sea.
In May 2023, on the eve of her summit attempt on Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest),16-year-old Xu Zhuoyuan encountered a fierce snowstorm during her ascent.
Chen Meimei, a 26-year-old from Shiyan, Hubei province, recently spent a weekend in Xinghua village in Danjiangkou, less than two hours away. She arrived just in time for the village's annual "Three Blossoms Festival", which celebrates the blooming of apricot, peach, and rape flowers — and the experience was unlike any she'd had before.
Fleeting companions Instead of the usual image of cats curled up on laps, some young people in China are choosing crabs, praying mantises, and hamsters as pets.
"Has the grain been filled?" is a playful way of asking, "Have you eaten?" Similarly, "Your hands are like excavators, with the strength of bears, wolves, and leopards" means "You have a strong grip."
The number of foreigners coming to China has increased significantly in the first quarter of this year as a result of the continued improvement in the country's policies to facilitate cross-border travel, the National Immigration Administration said on Tuesday.
Photographer Ren Peng, 40, remembers the occasion as if it was only yesterday. Five years ago he visited the hometown of his friend Gu Yan, a member of the Lisu ethnic group, in Yanbian county, Panzhihua, Sichuan province.
Every day from 11 am to around 5 pm, Huang Lianfeng welcomes hundreds of diners to his farmhouse restaurant in Dianjiang county, in Southwest China's Chongqing, as the peony blossom season reaches its peak.
When Dunhuang is mentioned, the most lasting impression is of its historical inheritance, principally the must-visit painted grottos of the Mogao Caves.
On April 8, dozens of Italian students at a boarding school demonstrated their passion for Chinese language and culture through performances.