Dianjiang county opened its stone-milled tofu food festival on 24 October 2026 at the county sports and culture park in Chongqing, running three days to 26 October. Bowls of fresh tofu sold for one yuan, roughly 14 US cents, and the county’s commerce bureau built the programme around tasting, judging, teaching and selling at the […]
A narrow strip of cloth, folded and coiled into a knob on one side of a garment opening and a loop on the other, closes the front of a Chinese jacket. The Chinese name for that fastener is Pankou. On an English-language product page, the same element can appear as “fireman clasp”. The distance between […]
The third Xionger Mountain autumn colour season opened on the morning of 25 October 2026 in Shanting District, Zaozhuang, Shandong, under a title that translates roughly as the rift valley learns autumn. The park has built the programme around two things it already owns: a gorge of banded volcanic rock and a hillside that turns […]
Four years ago Yang Fengxian was selling hand-made fans and hairpins out of a community in Weizhuang, on Shizhi Street in Fangcheng County, and the orders were thin. Today her workshop in Nanyang, Henan, turns over roughly 300,000 yuan a month in silk velvet flowers, peaks at 500,000 in busy seasons, and keeps more than […]
A thematic exhibition on Chinese fan painting opened on October 12 on the 39th floor of the National Financial Information Building in Beijing, in the Xinhua News Agency Art Museum. Xinhua Finance and the China Fortune Network reported the opening. Titled “Fans Through the Seasons,” the show gathers more than 200 fan paintings by over […]
Sixty couples from Chongqing and neighbouring Sichuan took part in the third Sichuan-Chongqing collective wedding on October 11, at Ciqikou Ancient Town in Shapingba District, Chongqing. The event doubled as the launch of the city’s 2026 marriage-custom reform publicity week. Shapingba’s converged media centre and the Chongqing Morning Post reported the ceremony. Dressed in traditional […]
The argument for an evening at the Tongguan kiln begins with a single bite. Kiln-roasted preserved-plum peanuts, warm from the stall, crack open salty-sweet with a faint hint of smoke; beside them a cup of Chating blueberry wine finishes clean and round. That pairing, one snack and one pour, is the taste of the “Wangcheng […]
For the first time in its 500-year history, Hanzheng Street has an industry standard to measure itself against. Three group standards covering product quality, market management and the “Hanzheng Street Hanpai Apparel” regional public brand were released at the opening of the 2026 Hanzheng Street International Fashion Week and the 9th Hanzheng Street International Garment […]
A half-finished piece of embroidery may be the truest exhibit in the room. In one gallery of the Guangdong embroidery show now at the Guangzhou Library, rows of “unfinished” works let visitors follow the craft step by step, from the initial design and the tracing of the draft onto fabric to the coloring, the selection […]
The Aoqun (袄裙) is the rare Hanfu form you can date by silhouette alone: a jacket that ends above the hem of the skirt beneath it. The cut appears in Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs, became common in the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern dynasties, and reached Asuka-period Japan along with the […]
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