Luotian county in Hubei began its 18th Dabie Mountains Red Leaf Season on 28 October, with the main stage at the Hexi Fan waterside red-leaf area and a programme running to 1 December. Four other viewing points are tied into the same ticket and the same schedule: Shengrentang, Tiantangzhai, Xufengchong and Jiuzi Ancient Town. The […]
On 17 October in Chengdu, at the third Sanlian Humanistic City Season ceremony, the Xunpu zanhua headdress experience from Fengze District in Quanzhou, Fujian, was named one of ten Urban New Solutions for 2026. It was the only Fujian entry on the list. Zhuang Qun (庄群), a municipal-level inheritor of the Xunpu women’s custom, presented […]
An exhibition of ethnic dress opened on 20 October at the Tongzhou campus of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, drawing on more than a hundred pieces from the university’s own collection. Titled One Thread, One Heart, it runs as a permanent display in the ground-floor gallery of building A1, free with an appointment, on Wednesdays, […]
Irkutsk hosted the fourth China Culture and Art Festival on the Shores of Lake Baikal on 16 October, opening it at the city’s national research technical university with more than 800 students and staff from universities across the region and from China. The Chinese consulate general in Irkutsk co-organised the event with the university, and […]
Four original bronze zodiac heads from the Yuanmingyuan water clock arrived in Kunshan, Jiangsu, on 26 October and go on show from 31 October at the Kunshan Museum of Chinese Operas, where the exhibition runs to 5 January 2027. The ox, tiger, monkey and boar heads are joined by Shang and Zhou bronzes and Northern […]
A Banbi is a short-sleeved upper garment built to be a layer rather than an outfit: the sleeves stop at the elbow, the body at the waist, and it goes over a blouse or under a robe, seldom on its own. Shen Congwen, whose 1981 survey of Chinese dress still sets the terms of the […]
Harper’s Bazaar China held the 2026 edition of its From China programme in Jiangyin, Wuxi, on 20 and 21 October, and the design exhibition attached to it went on public view on 22 October with more than 150 shortlisted works on show. Held at the Xiake Xing theme park in Xiake Bay Science City, the […]
A three-day programme run by the Hunan provincial culture and tourism department took 45 heritage crafts and 95 named inheritors into a Changsha neighbourhood, an office park and a riverside town between 25 and 27 October, one venue per day. Organised under the title Experiencing Hunan Heritage, Meeting a Better Life, the series is the […]
The fashion accessories and personalised tailoring track of the 2026 Shanghai Bespoke skills competition closed in Shanghai on 22 October, ending a contest that put hand-sewn qipao, knotted closures and Kesi silk tapestry work on the same score sheet. The track was organised by the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and the Shanghai Municipal Commission […]
Two large jacquard brocades from Songjiang in Shanghai went on show at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris on the evening of 23 October, opening with the Art Shopping contemporary art fair and running to 25 October. The works, a hanging scroll of the God Who Adds Fortune and a woven Map of Songjiang Prefecture, […]
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