Crowds filled the square in front of Zhenhai Tower in Pingshan, Fuzhou, early on October 5 and stayed busy through the afternoon. Under the red walls and flying eaves, the Gulou district laid out its 2026 National Day heritage market, “National Day of Grace, Intangible Heritage Gathering”, with more than twenty local craft and performance […]
An exhibition tracing four decades of needlework by Zhou Xueqing has opened at the Aojia Art Museum, also known as the Beijing Yingjie Hardstone Art Museum. “Wuzheng Wuzhen: Zhou Xueqing Embroidery Art Exhibition” gathers more than forty years of her work and invention, and runs in Beijing until October 20, 2026. More than fifty craft […]
A Tuanshan is a flat, rigid fan whose handle and face share one axis, built on a bamboo or wooden frame with silk, gauze or paper pasted over it. Two living workshop systems still produce them: Guilin in Guangxi, where a single bamboo is split into dozens of ribs and the ribs themselves become the […]
Shenzhen’s Gankeng Ancient Town drew close to 200,000 visits across the National Day holiday, Shenzhen Evening News reported on October 12. The Hakka village in Longgang District ran the week under the theme “Elegant Gankeng Rises in Guochao,” threading Hanfu aesthetics, intangible-heritage performances and a farm-side night programme through its old lanes as part of […]
On the first two days of October 2026, two programmes opened a few kilometres apart in Wuhan. At the Guqin Terrace, a national-level inheritor of Guangling-school Guqin playing performed with his students and put historical instruments on display. The next morning, from the south gate of Guishan, a parade set out in which a Brazilian […]
In the Song dynasty almost every wardrobe held a Beizi, and not only the wardrobes of the court. Empresses wore it, and so did women working in the fields, because the garment was never reserved to one rank. It is the defining outer layer of the period, and it is also the one most often […]
On October 9 the China National Museum of Women and Children in Beijing handed its floor to a design project. Twenty-two outfits made by the students and tutors of a National Arts Fund training programme for Guizhou ethnic dress went down a runway mixed with live dance, closing a run of workshops and fieldwork that […]
Song dynasty makeup is the origin story the neo-Chinese beauty market keeps borrowing from without naming. On 21 October 2026 Donghua University Press published an editorial piece that traced the actual recipes, working from Li Ya’s history of Chinese cosmetics and matching each technique to excavated murals and surviving court portraits. What it documents is […]
A question comes first at the Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum, before any object: if you could live your life again, would you still walk into this world of joy and grief? It is printed at the entrance to the underground route and repeated at the exit. Between those two points, across roughly two and a […]
Salt built Yancheng, named it, and then left. What the city did with the remains is now the subject of two shows running inside Yandu Ancient Town, a rebuilt late-Qing street inside the Dayang Bay scenic area. The main production, “Yandu Past,” follows a salt-merchant family through the Republican era; the smaller one, a six-scene […]
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