Polychromatic tents of various sizes and shapes resembling a mosaic have added vibrancy to forests, lakesides and beaches across the country's vast landscape since early summer.
With a rising awareness of health and well-being, traditional Chinese medicine cuisine is gaining popularity among consumers in China.
The Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yueju Opera Troupe is a cultural and arts performance team of Xicheng district cultural center in Beijing. Founded in 1997, the opera troupe consists of more than 40 members from all walks of life and they have performed many adaptations of classics on the stage. As a troupe composed of amateurs, the members demonstrate their enthusiasm to learn the arts of Yueju Opera and make great efforts to improve their skills to better perform. Chen Hong, who is the head of the troupe, says that the members have a great sense of achievement after they perform, and they hope in the future the operatic arts can integrate with other forms of art.
When Wei Guangyao presents plates of rock sugar, mugwort and Sichuan peppercorn before a group of guests, he is not planning to deliver a dish, but to cook up a pool of ink.
In the heart of the dense forests of the Greater Hinggan Mountains, as the first rays of morning sunlight pierce through the trees, forestry police officer Zhao Xiaohui and his colleague Li Hui start a day's patrol in the mountainous area of Alongshan town, Genhe in the northeast of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
CHANGCHUN — Traveling thousands of kilometers from her tropical homeland to northeastern China to participate in a soccer event, Phonphirun Philawan finds herself fully immersed in a unique and exciting experience.
At first glance, the Starry Sky Cafe in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, resembles any typical streetside coffee shop — neat and tidy, with a cozy and soothing ambience, where baristas make coffees of the customers' choosing.
An underwater Neolithic discovery unveiled buried facts of daily subsistence and environmental adaptation several thousand years ago, the National Cultural Heritage Administration revealed on Sept 13.
Around 10,000 years ago, as people in present-day West Asia began to domesticate wheat and barley, a similar development took place in China where people began to cultivate rice. This marked the emergence of rice agriculture, which has had a profound influence on people's lives in various parts of the world ever since.
LANZHOU — During recent festivities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Sunan Yugur autonomous county in Gansu province, the nomadic Yugur people's unique ethnic attire was an attraction in its own right.
Aconcert featuring the works of Russia-born Jewish composer Aaron Avshalomov (1894-1964), commemorating his 130th birthday, took place on Sept 12 at the Shanghai Symphony Hall. Conducted by the composer's grandson, David Avshalomov, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra opened the evening with his best-known piece, Peiping Hutongs.