The curators of a Haipai qipao exhibition that opened on August 28 at Jinchao 8 Nong in Shanghai’s Hongkou District had a specific problem to solve: how to show a century of a garment that most visitors have only ever seen worn, in a setting that is itself a century old. Their answer was to […]
The thirteenth edition of the Kaifeng Intangible Heritage Market opened on the evening of September 5 at Kaiyuan Square in Kaifeng, Henan, bringing 98 representative heritage projects into one night-time program of food, handwork, traditional medicine and folk performance. The count breaks down into 29 traditional food items, 17 traditional crafts and 38 traditional Chinese […]
The most photographed dress at the 83rd Venice Film Festival this week was not a European one. On September 8 the cast of Dear You appeared together on the festival’s red carpet: director Lan Hongchun with producer Zheng Xuanxuan and the leads Li Sitong, Wang Yantong and Wang Xiaohui. It was the group’s first appearance […]
The general’s temple fair in Wucheng, a town in Xiuning County, Anhui, opened on September 4 for an eight-day run through September 11, filling a stretch of the old settlement with food stalls, folk processions and stage shows from morning until late. The venue is the phase-two site of the Wucheng specialty block, and the […]
Spring of the Blade, the Song-era political drama adapted from You Sijie’s novel of the same name, is scheduled for a September 2026 release across iQIYI and Youku in thirty episodes. The production is directed by Pan Anzi and stars Xu Kai and Zhou Ye, with Fu Dalong in a guest role, and it is […]
Fengjing, the canal town in Shanghai’s Jinshan District, is recruiting twenty couples for the twentieth edition of its Wu-Yue Corner water town wedding, set for September 26 and 27, with the main ceremony on the evening of the twenty-sixth. Couples marry in old-style dress and follow a traditional ceremony, and the organizers bill the event […]
China Fashion Week’s autumn edition opened on September 3 at the 798 Art District in Beijing and runs through September 10, eight days organized by the China Fashion Designers Association under the theme “Jinxu Dongfang, Chaoqi Gongsheng” (金序东方·潮启共生). More than 600 guests attended the opening, among them officials from the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry […]
Before the costume drama Against the Current (兰香如故) could dress a single character, its crew built the world those characters live in. The production occupied about 40 mu (roughly 25,000 square meters) in Hengdian (横店) and spent 155 days raising a Ming-dynasty official residence at 1:1 scale, with the core set Zhichun Guan (知春馆) finished […]
Coarse rice flour, toasted until it yellows, is the line between a Mianyang steamed dish and any other steamed dish in Hubei. On September 7, students in the culinary and nutrition education program at Hubei University of Economics spent their first class of the semester learning where that line runs, taught by Wu Feng, chairman […]
For four days, Nanning’s Sanjie Xiangxiang historic district is being run as a single continuous venue rather than a set of separate shows. The fourth China-ASEAN Intangible Cultural Heritage Week opened there on the evening of September 24 and runs through September 28, carrying across the Mid-Autumn holiday, with the arcade streets lit end to […]
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