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Intangible cultural heritage show held in S China

2016-02-18 10:18

Troupers perform dance at a plaza in Binyang county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 17, 2016. An intangible cultural heritage show was held on Wednesday to celebrate the lunar new year.

Folk artists perform 'Mouse Marriage' to pray for harvest

2016-02-18 09:50

Folk artists wearing mouse costumes perform during a "mouse marriage" shehuo show in Jiacun village of Lucheng, North China's Shanxi province, Feb 17, 2016.

Of moon and mountain

2016-02-18 08:43

A Chinese musician's effort is driving chorus singing online and in the real world, Chen Nan reports.

NGO to make short film on children of HIV-positive people

2016-02-18 08:27

Hong Kong-based Chi Heng Foundation will make a short film, titled Love, on children of HIV-positive people.

Citizens enjoy 400-year-old temple fair in Kunming

2016-02-17 15:08

On Feb 16, 2016, people gathered at the Golden Temple Park to pray for blessings and to worship people of the past in Kunming city, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province. This traditional activity has been held annually for 400 years.

Reward offered for decoding ancient Indian gold coins

2016-02-17 14:21

Hunan province in central China is offering a reward to anyone who can decode the inscription on the back of six ancient gold coins.

Annual Shangjiu Festival celebrated in Sichuan

2016-02-17 14:01

Residents of Tibetan ethnic group in Baoxing on Tuesday performed dragon and lion dances to celebrate the annual Shangjiu Festival, which falls on the 9th day of Chinese Lunar New Year, to express the respect to the heaven.

62-year-old folk artist carries on firecracker dragon lantern in Guangxi

2016-02-17 13:30

Zou Yute, a 62-year-old folk artist, is an inheritor of the traditional craftsmanship of making firecracker dragon lanterns in Binyang county of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Band from Inner Mongolia charms UK with nomadic melodies

2016-02-17 10:21

Band from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region led the audience through a mixture of nomadic melodies, as part of its UK tour that started on Jan 26.

Intangible cultural heritage: Binyang-style dragon dance

2016-02-17 10:20

The Binyang-style dance is a derivative of traditional dragon dance in which performers hold dragon on poles and walk through floods of firecrackers. The dance was listed as a state intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Going beyond puppets on a string

2016-02-17 10:15

Experts weigh in on what needs to be done to boost children's theater in China. Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.

Lingering memories

2016-02-17 09:32

My lingering memories of my Shanghai-Suzhou tour would be the warmth and kindness of total strangers, but for whom I'd have found it difficult to find my way from subway stations to various tourist sites.

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