Picturesque rivers and mountains. Silver beaches. An open-air banquet staged by ethnic groups in traditional attire. A smiling old lady sitting in the doorway of her home in a "longevity village".
The ice cave exhaled its frosty breath in our faces as we approached its mouth. We put on our jackets in front of the entrance to the cavern hidden in Ningwu county in Shanxi province's Xinzhou city in August.
An exhibition titled Treasures of China will open in Riyadh as part of an exchange program that saw Saudi relics displayed in Beijing last year, Wang Kaihao reports.
Longli, an ancient military bunker with a history of more than 600 years, is on the southwest edge of Jinping county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province.
Fish Eating Plastic, an art installation showcasing the peril plastic poses to the ocean, was presented at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan city in East China's Jiangsu province on Saturday.
Autumn is right around the corner, but preparations in Northwest China's Qinghai province to reap a bountiful harvest are already in full swing – but farmers there are doing much more than plowing the fields and planting crops.
Over the past five decades, ink artist Lu Xiujing, 76, has demonstrated the core values of classic Chinese painting, which he learnt from great artists including Huang Binhong and Lu Yanshao.
Earlier this year, the Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House and the National Museum of China jointly published an album of classic calligraphic works from the latter's collection.
Taking the newly-launched direct flight from Beijing to Edinburgh, and using Chinese mobile payment platform WeChat Pay to purchase tickets to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Chinese tourists feel their holiday trips to Scotland this summer are more convenient and enjoyable.
Shi Shaohua (1918-98) is recognized as one of the country's three leading photographers, together with Sha Fei and Wu Yinxian, whose works document the course of the Communist Party of China in the 1930s and '40s.
A porcelain masterpiece from Chinese Emperor Qianlong's imperial collection will go under the hammer in Hong Kong for a fall sale, announced the auction house Sotheby's on Friday.