From last Friday to this Saturday, four performances featuring young artists focused on wuxi will be staged at Beijing People's Theatre — the first theater built specifically for Peking Opera, which opened in 1954, five years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The Taklamakan Desert, China's largest desert and located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was once the central stage for numerous legends along the ancient Silk Road.
Despite difficulties during the fourth national census of cultural relics in Horgos, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which borders Kazakhstan, members of the city's census team have completed most of their field work and achieved fruitful results.
Like many families across China, Yang Xiangni spent the Spring Festival holiday this year with her loved ones, watching the country's biggest box-office sensation, Ne Zha 2, in the cinema.
China's Dinosaur World exhibition will open to the public at the Shanghai Natural History Museum starting from May 31, marking China's first national dinosaur exhibition gathering 118 specimens and models from 12 museums and research institutes. Among them are 80 top-class protected paleontological fossils, and the 38.1-meter-long model of Ruyangosaurus.
More than 350 pieces displayed at this year's Seventh China Contemporary Art and Crafts Biennial have been donated to the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing by their makers.
Shanghai has taken a significant step towards reshaping the future of the jewelry and fashion industry with the inauguration of the Shanghai International Jewelry Fashion Functional Zone in Huangpu district.
When tickets for South Korean writer Choi Eun-young's book signing and meet-and-greet event in the Langyuan Vintage cultural and art zone in late March were released online, they immediately sold out.
The recently concluded 2025 Puyuan Fashion Week featured the typical straight-faced, statuesque models strutting down runways in haute couture to loud, pulsating beats, while immaculately styled celebrities, trendsetters and designers observed from the sidelines.
Tucked away in a narrow hutong, or alleyways, in central Beijing, a wooden gate swings open to reveal an unexpected serenity. A spacious courtyard unfolds, anchored by two towering, lush trees. Along one side, a corridor lined with powerful artworks beckons.
Carved into the cliffs of Wuzhou Mountain in the northwestern suburbs of Datong, Shanxi province, over 1,500 years ago, the Yungang Grottoes stand as a monumental testament to cultural exchanges between China and the Buddhist world. Added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 2001, the organization said in a document that the site has a universal value as it represents "the outstanding achievements of Buddhist cave art in China".
Competition to decode ancient scripts expected to advance research, stimulate public interest, spur technological development, Fang Aiqing reports.