Luoyi Ancient City after dark is a queue of photographers. Red lanterns, rebuilt Tang towers, and tourists in Qiyao Ruqun (齐腰襦裙) holding their place at a doorway while a stylist fixes a hairpin. Luoyang counted 18 Hanfu rental shops at the end of 2022. It counts more than 1,600 now, and the city’s own figures […]
Nanjing Yunjin Museum unveiled a framed brocade panel titled Three Brocades in Harmony at the 9th China International Import Expo’s debut product launch on 6 November, the first time Yunjin, Song brocade and Shu brocade have been woven into a single scroll. Three Cities Inside One Frame The museum led the project and Qian Xiaoping, […]
Lueyang County in Hanzhong, Shaanxi, opened its 2026 Qiang New Year on the evening of 8 November with a Salang bonfire party and molten-iron fireworks, and runs the programme through 11 November. Dates 8 to 11 November 2026 Venue Qiang Culture Square and Dongmen Tower Square, Lueyang County, Hanzhong, Shaanxi What it is Annual Qiang […]
The courier labels stacked in the workshop at Shibadong Village carry English addresses. The village collective in Huayuan County, Xiangxi, Hunan, took its first American order on Amazon in late June, and since May its tiger-hat line has moved more than 40,000 hats and bags. The Photograph That Started the Orders It began with a […]
A dance-poem production titled Silk and Porcelain took the Fengming Jiutian Theatre at Tang Paradise in Xi’an on 8 November, inside the 12th Silk Road International Arts Festival, before an audience of just over 600. Five Chapters and a Finale The production is built on two local cultural assets rather than one: the Yaozhou kilns […]
The Hainan Provincial Museum of Nationalities has taken 100 square metres at the eleventh China Museums and Related Products and Technologies Expo in Haikou, which runs from 13 to 16 November at the Hainan International Convention and Exhibition Center. Instead of showing finished textiles in cases, the booth walks visitors through the four stages of […]
Fifty couples from more than ten provinces climbed the five-step “lock stair” at the Three Gorges Dam on 8 November, in the fifth edition of a national youth collective wedding held at the cofferdam closure memorial park in Yichang, Hubei. They wore traditional Chinese clothing in one matching style, bowed to the Yangtze, to the […]
A jinbu is a set of jade pendants hung from a belt, and it was designed to be heard. The pieces knock against each other as the wearer moves, so a long stride or a hurried pace turns the sound into noise, and noise was a breach of manners. The name itself means “restrain the […]
Two exhibitions opened together at the Huining county cultural centre in Baiyin, Gansu, on 4 November, marking ninety years since the end of the Long March. One gathers 62 papercuts on Red Army history from a national open call; the other shows more than 60 embroideries by Yang Junying. The largest single work is a […]
Most men’s mamianqun problems are predictable before you order. The waistband is too short and the front will not close. The skirt is too long and you step on it on stairs. The band is tied too tight and the pleats collapse when you sit. Or the front panels lack enough overlap and the skirt […]
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