Camping was all the rage across China during the just-concluded National Day holiday, with some joking that "half of their friends on WeChat were camping".
Sana Farooq has been learning Chinese at the National University of Modern Languages for over a month, and the more she learns about the language, the more she feels herself getting attached to Chinese culture.
With its primal rhythms and rapid-fire lyrics, delivered with hypnotic cadence by machine gun-lipped MCs, hip-hop is more than just music. It attaches itself to the listener, like invisible strings of a marionette, forcing even the most dedicated wallflower into nodding to the beat. This is the basis for an artistic phenomenon that, like the mesmerizing pulse of the music's bass drum, has gripped the imagination of the nation's youth, growing exponentially more popular since the pioneers of Chinese street dance first popped and locked at the turn of the century.
In 2008, then-10-year-old Hu Ping was happy to see fireworks in the streets on the night of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. During the Games, she celebrated China's medal tally and says she felt that people who fight for the honor of their country are quite remarkable.
To welcome the 62th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between China and Cuba, an exhibition featuring Chinese contemporary art was showcased at Cuba National Library in Cuba on October 14.
Moutai spirit has become one of the most famous brands on the planet after a transformation in Guizhou province's transport network and local government guidance helped the distiller achieve a market value of more than 1 trillion yuan
A new batch of relics, including thousands of bronze coins, have been unearthed from the remains of a mint dating back more than 2,000 years in Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
With the largest area of mangroves in Guangdong province, Zhanjiang has restored 9,960 hectares of mangroves in recent years through ecological redemption.
French writer Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature earlier this month and the Chinese versions of her works, A Woman's Story and La Place, have seen orders surging on leading bookselling websites, such as Dangdang.
The 2022 "Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition - Calligraphy and Painting Challenge" is calling for entries from Chinese language lovers worldwide.
Walking in the park of Helanshan Rock Art Relics in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, is like taking a stroll through history. One can't help but marvel and be fascinated at the number of artworks and carvings engraved on the rocks at the entrance to the Helan Mountains. These motifs and patterns, painted or carved, were an encyclopedia of knowledge before human beings knew how to read or write. And today they help us understand how our ancestors lived.
On the first day of October, Nelson, a city in New Zealand, saw its first “China Day”.