The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Major Cold (Chinese: 大寒), the 24th solar term, begins this year on Jan 20 and ends on Feb 2.
Bringing together both Chinese and Western music classics for Chinese New Year, conductor Tan Dun and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra will tour European countries including Switzerland and Belgium.
A new research center has just been set up at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to boost studies on Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace.
The increasing popularity of the annual Hobbycraft Expo shows that people are relishing the chance to get hands on and craft their own works of art.
The China National Peking Opera Company will perform shows in different countries to celebrate the 200-year-old art form on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb 5.
More than 1,500 cultural programs will take place in 396 cities in 133 countries and regions during the upcoming Spring Festival.
China has continued to rank second in overall tourism revenue, after the United States, annually over the 2012-19 period, according to a world-tourism-economy report.
The happy atmosphere of the upcoming Spring Festival will spread worldwide, thanks to a major cultural program called Happy Chinese New Year.
Hee-Young Lim, a Korean cellist, launched her first CD French Cello Concertos last November. Now she is tapping into the classical music world in China.
A new book offers an insight into former vice-foreign minister Fu Ying's time as a spokeswoman for the National People's Congress, Fang Aiqing reports.
Artists from Taiwan introduce the Chinese zodiac to students at a primary school in Kalkara, Malta, Jan 10, 2019.
Artists perform at the China-South Korea Friendship Concert at the Sejong Grand Theater in Seoul on Jan 12, 2019.
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