The Chinese have been familiar with the lyrics of the revolutionary opera, The White Haired Girl, for the past seven decades or so.
Millions of people gathered in Times Square to celebrate the New Year on the night of Dec 31, 2015. China National Tourist Office in New York also held a special promotion for 2016 China-US Tourism Year.
A batch of well-designed cultural calendars were hot sellers at the end of the year and now posting photos of the calendars has become a new fad on social networks.
The oldest Hoabinhian culture, an important technological adaptation by hunter-gatherers to the humid tropical and subtropical environments of southeast Asia some 43,500 years ago, was identified in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
Chinese filmmakers stepped out of Hollywood's shadow, producing films that set box-office records even as critics say artistic merit still lags behind.
With the upcoming the Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year global online photo contest 2016 is being launched.
France will issue its stamps for the Year of the Monkey in January 2016, which will be the last set of Chinese zodiac series stamps.
The year of 2015 has been an important one for the development of China-Latin America relations, when cultural exchanges became the highlight of bilateral ties.
The 70-year-old opera "The White Haired Girl" greeted audiences once again with a 3D makeover as familiar melody from the song of "The Blowing North Wind" resonated in a theater in Beijing on Dec 26.
A rundown of the year's best and best-selling Chinese movies shows that it will take time for the two to converge.
The second season of the TV reality show, Silk Road Expedition, will take audiences to landmark cities along the Silk Road, the ancient route connecting China and the West.
There were 96 gold cakes and several hoof-sahped golds newly unearthed between the inner and external coffin at the Haihunhou cemetery on Dec 24, making the number of gold cakes unearthed here rise to 285.