Chinese relic experts have determined a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue containing a mummified monk, which is now in possession of a Dutch private collector, is a relic stolen from an east China village in 1995.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The Spring Equinox，as the fourth term of the year starts on Mar 21 and ends on Apr 4 this year.
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China's Flower Drum Lantern, dubbed as "the ballet of the east", is a folk art that combines singing and dancing.To preserve this folk performance art, Chinese government listed the Flower Drum Lantern as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006, and now the government is hoping it to be recognized on an international stage.
Sang Chuanqi, a resident in Taihe county of Fuyang city in East China's Anhui province, has a collection of more than 10,000 teapots.
People carry the statues of Sansheng Dragon King, known as the incarnation of the dragon in folklore, to the Guangshi Temple for a sacrifice to heaven ceremony at the foot of Longji Mountain in Minhou county, Southeast China's Fujian province, March 18, 2015.
Liu Kai, a 23-year-old artist, creates a picture with a ball pen at home in Fushan county, North China's Shanxi province. After graduating from high school, Liu worked as a farmer and migrant worker until pursuing his dream of becoming a painter in 2012.
China's largest private film company has reached an agreement with an unnamed United States company to co-produce and distribute at least 18 feature films by the end of 2017.
Archeologists have unearthed a massive tomb complex in a southwest suburb in Beijing, according to the Beijing Institute of Cultural Heritage on Monday.
Flour-based food like the huamo or literally, "flower buns", are dinner table necessities in Luochuan county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Elegant and lifelike, Luochuan huamo is a form of artwork with unique local character.
The "Year of China" was launched at the State Theatre in Pretoria, capital of South Africa, on March 15.
The curator of the world’s first yak museum sparked a Tibetan cultural craze when he visited Peking University on Mar 13 to give a two-hour lecture.
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