American artist promotes Li brocade in S China's Hainan

Nicki Johnson, an American artist based in south China's Hainan Province, has dedicated herself to promoting Li brocade, a traditional textile of the Li ethnic group in China.

Date:2025-02-17

How Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" becomes global box office sensation

"Ne Zha 2," the animated blockbuster that has dominated China's box office, is igniting a global frenzy with its seamless fusion of traditional Chinese mythology and innovative animation storytelling.

Date:2025-02-18

Lancang-Mekong Cultural Activity to be held in Myanmar's Bagan

The Lancang-Mekong Cultural Activity 2024 will take place in Bagan in central Myanmar's Mandalay region from Feb. 22 to 28, the official daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Monday.

Date:2025-02-18

Spring Festival showcases Chinese culture to the world

Celebrating Chinese New Year at my in-laws' for the past five years, this year marked the first time I encountered foreigners on a plane.

Date:2025-02-17

Ancient horse racing tradition lives on in N China village

Deep in the Taihang Mountains, the noise of people and the horses broke the morning silence.

Date:2025-02-17

What China's record-breaking film reveals about its economic vigor

As the credits rolled on "Ne Zha 2" in a packed cinema, Zhou Jianmin, CEO of Zhejiang Huaguoshan Cultural Media, felt a surge of pride, perfectly articulating it with, "Seeing our team's names on t...

Date:2025-02-17

Kenyan primary school holds Chinese Cultural Day to promote friendship, cultural exchange

Crawford International School, a private primary school on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, hosted a vibrant Chinese Cultural Day on Friday, immersing students, teachers, and parents...

Date:2025-02-17

Chinese animation blockbuster Ne Zha 2 mainstay in Australian cinemas

Most mainstream Australian cinemas have significantly increased their screening schedules of the latest box-office hit -- Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" -- this week due to the strong demand from...

Date:2025-02-17

Areas vie to be Ne Zha's 'birthplace'

Tourism authorities in several provincial-level regions have vied to promote their areas as the "real birthplace" of the Ne Zha character, hoping to ride the wave of popularity of the hit blockbust...

Date:2025-02-17

Chinese folk arts attract Serbian audience with Spring Festival flash performance

The highlight of the evening was a face-changing opera performance, where enthusiastic children and teenagers eagerly interacted with the performer.

Date:2025-02-10

Craftsman in SW China's Sichuan dedicated to porcelain mending

"Juci," or porcelain mending, is a traditional Chinese craft that involves repairing broken pottery with metal staples. This meticulous process not only gives new life to the porcelain but also add...

Date:2025-02-10

Wisdom I have learned from a Chinese painting

Majestic green mountains are shrouded in a thin mist, while the river water rushes through the mountains, surging forward. Against the swift current, a small raft bravely navigates upstream, pushin...

Date:2025-02-10

"Ne Zha 2" smashes box office records, becomes first non-Hollywood film to hit 1 bln USD

Chinese animated blockbuster "Ne Zha 2" has shattered multiple box office records, becoming the first film to cross 1 billion U.S. dollars in a single market and the first non-Hollywood title to jo...

Date:2025-02-10

Spring Festival temple fair held in Malta

Visitors to the temple fair celebrating the Chinese Spring Festival enjoyed various traditional activities, including sugar painting, rice sculptures, puppetry, shadow puppetry, and woodblock print...

Date:2025-02-10

A glimpse of Yingge dance, folk dance popular in S China's Guangdong

The Yingge dance, or "dance to the hero's song," is a form of folk dance popular in south China's Guangdong Province. The dance merges opera, dance, and martial arts and was listed as the first bat...

Date:2025-02-06

China's Spring Festival holiday box office set historic record

In a record-breaking achievement for China's film industry, as of 13:29 on February 5, 2025, the total box-office revenue of new films released during the 2025 Spring Festival holiday season exceed...

Date:2025-02-06

China's 2025 Spring Festival shatters records as travel and consumption boom

China's 2025 Spring Festival holiday set several records in travel, leisure, dining and consumption, while being the first such celebration since the Spring Festival's inscription in the UNESCO Int...

Date:2025-02-06

Spring Festival tourism and consumption boom in China

The 2025 Spring Festival holiday, which ran from January 28 to February 4, saw a tourism and consumption boom across China.

Date:2025-02-06

China sees over 2.3 billion inter-regional trips during Spring Festival holiday

During the eight-day Spring Festival holiday that ended on Tuesday, more than 2.3 billion passenger trips were made across all regions in China, official data showed Wednesday.

Date:2025-02-06

Shandong's intangible cultural heritage, ice and snow tourism and winter resort tourism attract numerous tourists

During the Spring Festival in 2025, Shandong, with its rich tourism resources and unique intangible cultural heritage, became one of the popular domestic tourist destinations. According to Ctrip's ...

Date:2025-02-06

Spring Festival holiday sees cultural delights for everyone

Beyond festive foods and goods, during the ongoing Spring Festival holiday, people in China can also immerse themselves in delightful experiences featuring more cultural elements.

Date:2025-02-06

Spanish potter shapes fusion of Eastern and Western art in China's "porcelain capital"

In the quiet of winter, the cherry trees in the courtyard have withered, yet the fruits continue to flourish in the porcelain works of Spanish ceramic artist Jaume Ribalta.

Date:2025-02-05

"Ne Zha" sequel sets box office record for Chinese animation

Fantasy feature "Ne Zha 2" has become the top-grossing domestic animated feature of all time in a milestone for Chinese cinema.

Date:2025-02-05

Chinese traditional melody brings spring spirit to Romanians

A Chinese traditional music concert enchanted an audience of nearly 800 at the Romanian Athenaeum early this week, with melodies portraying the vibrant spirit of spring -- high mountains, flowing w...

Date:2025-01-23

Wu opera enthrals Bangladesh audience in mood of Chinese Spring Festival

The "Happy Chinese New Year" Wu Opera special performance enchanted an audience of around 800 at the National Theater of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy here on Tuesday.

Date:2025-01-23

Spring Festival showcases Chinese culture, strengthens global bonds: UN official

The Spring Festival is of profound significance in fostering mutual understanding and strengthening global bonds, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Zainab Hawa Bangura...

Date:2025-01-23

New generation of paper-cutting practitioners merging tradition, modernity

As the Chinese Year of the Snake approaches, Fu Zhao'e has been spending her days cutting and folding red paper to create snakes, numbers and other decorative designs, immersing herself in the joy ...

Date:2025-01-23

Traditional folk customs of Spring Festival: clean the house

The festive holiday atmosphere in China has gotten stronger since the beginning of the twelfth month of the lunar year, as Chinese people gear up for the upcoming Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar ...

Date:2025-01-23

90 years on, Long March's legacy inspires China's progress in the new era

At No. 96 Ziyin Road in Zunyi, a city nestled between lush hills in southwest China's Guizhou Province, stands a building that elegantly blends Chinese and Western architectural styles. Its facade ...

Date:2025-01-16

Columbia University students savor bright, eye-opening China travel

A group of students from Columbia University in the United States recently had an opportunity to visit Chinese electric carmaker Nio's delivery center in Shanghai, where they engaged in a lively di...

Date:2025-01-16

Post-00s inheritor brings traditional Yi embroidery to young audiences and international markets

In Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, there is a saying: "Every Yi child who can hold chopsticks can embroider." Since childhood, Chen Haiyan, a post-00s inherito...

Date:2025-01-16

China-Laos Railway's Spring Festival travel train hosts cross-border gala

The D87 train of the China-Laos Railway arrived at Vientiane Station in the Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday, marking the start of the China-Laos Railway Spring Festival cultural event.

Date:2025-01-16

Study tours draw students to museums

Determined to find a study tour slot for her 11-year-old daughter at the National Museum of China in Beijing, Liu Zhengqun had been monitoring the programs offered by the country's leading museum s...

Date:2025-01-16

Bangladeshi people taste charm of Chinese Spring Festival

"I feel very nice to come to this program. I played some games and I am very happy today," Sohan Hossain, a Bangladeshi boy said, chanting "Happy Chinese New Year to all."

Date:2025-01-14

Technologies breathe new life into millennia-old treasures

When it comes to archaeology, many people might still think of a shovel and a brush as the go-to tools. But modern archaeology has evolved far beyond that.

Date:2025-01-15

Distilled wine from more than 3,000 years ago found in east China

A remarkable discovery in Shandong Province, east China, has revealed liquid in an ancient piece of bronzeware to be distilled liquor, pushing the origins of China's distilled alcohol production ba...

Date:2025-01-15

Young intangible cultural heritage inheritor revives China's long-lost legacy of Liao Dynasty ceramics

Driven by a deep fascination with ceramics since childhood, Sun Tianshu, a post-85s female intangible cultural heritage inheritor from northeast China's Liaoning Province, has revived Liao Dynasty ...

Date:2025-01-14

50 postgraduate students in Burundi awarded Chinese Ambassador Scholarship

A total of 50 postgraduate students pursuing master's degrees at the University of Burundi have been awarded the Chinese Ambassador Scholarship for 2024.

Date:2025-01-14

Chinese community in Zimbabwe celebrates upcoming Year of the Snake

​The Chinese community in Zimbabwe celebrated the upcoming Year of the Snake on Saturday with a cultural event at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, the country's capital.

Date:2025-01-14

Event welcoming Chinese New Year held in Pakistan

​An event welcoming the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, was held here on Saturday, with over 500 overseas Chinese and Pakistani guests participating.

Date:2025-01-14

Young man in China's Zhejiang promotes ancient wooden movable-type printing

During a recent New Year's Eve cultural event, Pan Yucheng, a Gen-Z docent from the China Wooden Movable-type Printing Exhibition Hall in Ruian city, east China's Zhejiang Province, showcased a uni...

Date:2025-01-14

Chinese Embassy in U.S. hosts Spring Festival gala for Chinese, American youths

The Chinese Embassy in the United States recently hosted the 2025 Spring Festival Gala for Chinese and American Youths, with over 500 young students from both countries and members of the American ...

Date:2025-01-14

Male inheritor of Uygur embroidery in China's Xinjiang leads local embroiders to prosperity

Kader Rehman, an inheritor of traditional Uygur embroidery who was once ridiculed as the only male embroiderer in his village, is now leading a team of over 100 artisans in Hami city, northwest Chi...

Date:2025-01-14

International students attend cultural event in Chongqing

International students learn paper-cutting in Pianyan ancient town, Beibei District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 7, 2025. A group of international students attended a cultural ev...

Date:2025-01-08

Inheritors share stories of global recognition of China's intangible cultural heritages

Recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed the Spring Festival, the social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional ...

Date:2025-01-09

Couplet culture thrives in Sidi village, N China's Shanxi

Couplets, known as Yinglian in Chinese, are one of the treasures of Chinese traditional culture. As the saying goes, "The most exquisite form of literature is poetry; the finest essence of poetry i...

Date:2025-01-09

China steps up efforts to protect its traditional Shui script

The Shui script is the unique traditional writing system used by the people of the Shui ethnic group in China to keep records of their astronomy, calendar, meteorology, folklore, and religion, just...

Date:2025-01-08

Laba Festival marked across China

A staff member (1st R) offers a citizen free Laba porridge in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Jan. 7, 2025. This year's Laba Festival falls on Tuesday.

Date:2025-01-08

Australia Post reveals commemorative stamps for Lunar New Year

Australia's postal service on Tuesday launched a set of stamps to commemorate the Lunar New Year.

Date:2025-01-07

inheritor of traditional Reba Dance in Xizang

Ani, 60, is an inheritor of the traditional Reba Dance. Reba Dance is a form of drum dance, and a blend of performing arts, integrating storytelling, singing, dancing and acrobatics. In 2006, it wa...

Date:2025-01-07