From September 3 to 6, the 2026 China Cultural Tourism Industry Expo filled the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, gathering nearly 2,000 exhibitors from 20 countries and regions. Among the stands, one county’s clothing drew a steady stream of visitors: Caoxian Hanfu, presented as one of three signature cultural-tourism calling cards of the […]
A 2026 animated film set in a mechanical, demon-populated Chang’an has become one of the summer’s quiet case studies in how Chinese animation builds its worlds. Demon Agent, co-directed by Huang Min and released in Chinese theaters in August, follows a sharp-tongued human detective and a wolf-demon constable through a fantastical Tang capital — and […]
A carnival dedicated to ethnic handicrafts made its debut at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS). On the afternoon of September 9, the first “Jingcai Jiangxin, Liuyun Huazhang” carnival for integrated innovation in ethnic handicraft industries opened in step with CIFTIS at Beijing’s Shougang Park, running through September 13 around the […]
Twenty-two complete outfits for a single character — that is the detail standard viewers are celebrating in a rewatch wave around Secret History of the Crown Prince, the 32-episode Qing-court drama directed by You Xiaogang. Actress Dai Jiaoqian’s character Ruyu, a folk girl who enters the palace, received a wardrobe that moves from street-common casual […]
Beijing’s Miaofengshan scenic area has turned itself into a living opera stage. On September 8, the 27th day of the seventh lunar month, the third Miaofengshan Opera Culture Festival opened in the Mentougou district under the theme “A Thousand Years of Liyuan Splendor, Golden Summit of Ten Thousand Blessings,” running on September 8, 12, 13 […]
When the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) opened at Beijing’s Shougang Park on September 9, drawing about 90 countries and international organizations, a first-time exhibitor from Chengdu used the stage to put Sichuan’s handwoven and embroidered couture in front of international buyers. The West China Haute Couture Center occupied its own […]
The Shenzhen fashion house HUI showed its Spring/Summer 2027 collection, The Fan Code, on the evening of September 27 local time in Italy, at Via Meravigli 7 in central Milan. The venue is Palazzo Turati, an 1880 neo-Renaissance building that now houses the Milan campus of Istituto Marangoni. The campus conversion kept the frescoed rooms, […]
On September 25, the “Return to Yunshuiyao, Happy Mountain Town” 2026 Nanjing County (南靖) Second Intangible Heritage Carnival and its “four dishes and one soup” food consumption event opened at the Yunshuiyao scenic area in Nanjing County, Zhangzhou, Fujian, and ran through September 27. According to People’s Daily’s Fujian channel, the three-day programme made “four […]
A single skilled weaver on a traditional leno loom could once produce only a few centimetres of cloth in a day. That figure is the reason Hualuo silk, an open-weave fabric prized for its airy hand, stayed a boutique material for most of its modern life. Shaoxing Zhongge Textile has spent years on the arithmetic. […]
On the morning of September 23, five-colour silk thread caught the gallery lights on the fourth floor of the Shanghai Museum of Textile and Costume. The museum sits on the Yan’an Road campus of Donghua University, and several works on its walls had already travelled a diplomatic route. That morning the Shanghai leg of “Innovation […]
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