Through the National Day holiday, the fashion hall of the China National Silk Museum in Hangzhou drew a steady line of visitors stopping to photograph themselves beside the displays. The draw was Lingjing Garden (灵境花园), an exhibition of couture by Guo Pei built around more than 200 pieces chosen from four decades of her work. […]
On October 1, a craft better known in southeastern Shanxi opened in a Beijing factory-turned-art district. “Pile Brocade of Shangdang, Breaking Boundaries to Be Born Anew”, a themed exhibition of Shangdang pile brocade, began at the 751 Shulin Gallery in the 798 Art Zone and runs to October 15, carrying the craft out of Shanxi […]
If you want to see how Chinese wellness is landing with visitors from abroad, start at an airport. Outside the one-stop service centre for foreign travellers at Terminal 2 of Shanghai Pudong International Airport, a group of overseas passengers follows staff through a set of Baduanjin (八段锦) movements, the slow eight-section exercise that has become […]
Over the seven days of National Day, Badachu Park in Beijing’s Western Hills packed 70 events into a single week. The 13th Badachu Culture Week ran from October 1 to 7, built around two threads the organisers named red heritage and Chinese-style revival, and stitched together red-culture experiences, roaming flash shows, Han-Tang-style parades and hands-on […]
For four nights around National Day, the China National Arts and Crafts Museum handed its floor to people who make things rather than to a professional troupe. Between October 3 and 5, the museum, which also carries the name China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, staged four holiday performances of Keyiguan (可以观), a public-education programme it […]
Chinese culture is travelling overseas less as a symbol and more as content people choose to watch, read and play. CCTV News reported on October 4 that Chinese titles and Chinese-made entertainment are reaching foreign audiences across a widening range of formats that includes serialized fiction, console games and short-form drama. The numbers it cited […]
Six couples married at the Dongpo Academy in Danzhou on the morning of October 4, walking a lantern-lined path in Song-style wedding dress toward a witness who left the island more than nine centuries ago. The ceremony ran under the banners of the city’s 2026 “Love in Hainan” program and was free to the public. […]
“Come to Wansuishan and you have to book a styling session and change into a period look,” remarked one visitor from Chengdu, describing a stop that has become routine in the city of Kaifeng. “You walk into the park in character. It is a lot of fun.” That impulse showed up in the numbers. Meituan […]
When archaeologists excavated Mashan Tomb No. 1 near Jingzhou in 1982, they lifted out 152 pieces of silk fabric and 35 complete garments that had kept their weave for roughly 2,300 years. The haul covered nearly the whole pre-Qin silk repertoire: plain silk, fine silk, gauze, leno, damask, brocade, braided ribbon and cord. Staff in […]
Munao Zongge, the great circle dance of the Jingpo people of southwest Yunnan, closed a Mid-Autumn and China National Day programme in Nigeria as the finale item, performed by the Nigeria Huaxing Art Troupe. People’s Daily’s overseas edition reported the performance on October 12. More than a hundred dancers took the floor together, and the […]
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