A wide worktable takes up nearly half the office of the Hong Kong Cheongsam Association, in a corner of Central where the traffic noise runs under the window. Liu Anqing (刘安庆) bends over the table pressing cloth. He is 78, and he has been at this work for more than sixty years. His trade is […]
The morning contest filled the lane with the smell of hot iron and rendered fat. On October 3, inside the Handan Dao historical and cultural district, twenty restaurants, specialty hotels and independent cooks set up stations for the local-specialty dish competition, the centrepiece of this year’s Golden Autumn “Taste of Handan” food culture week. Each […]
At three in the afternoon on October 1 the parade came down the street in waves. Young men and women in Hanfu moved through Confucius Temple Square and into the Xintiandi pedestrian street, dancers pausing to perform the sword piece “Sword Soul,” the classical “Song of the Pipa,” and “One Flower, One Sword” at set […]
Another China-themed hashtag has taken hold on overseas social media. Under “China Haul,” bloggers unpack what they bought on a trip to China: one holds up loquat syrup, cold medicine and Guipi pills and calls them Eastern miracle drugs; another drags an oversized moving box in front of the camera and tips out a full […]
Holiday wardrobes shifted with the calendar this week. Searches for travel outfits climbed across Chinese e-commerce platforms and content communities, and one phrase kept surfacing among younger shoppers: Liubai, the practice of leaving blank, attached to the New Chinese style. Under the National Day dressing and New Chinese photo tags, notes on plain-colour Pankou tops […]
Costumed role-players were the busiest draw at many Chinese scenic spots this National Day holiday. Parks staged historical reenactments, Song-dynasty street parades, joke-trading “wild men” and theme-park variety turns, and the casting notices behind them kept trending online. Well-known sites put out public recruitment calls for the holiday peak, and the wave has become the […]
Over the National Day holiday, a costume pageant in Laifeng county, Hubei, sent 12 examples of Xilankapu down a stage alongside Tujia dress, drawing crowds to a craft most visitors had only read about. Behind the show, the county’s ethnic museum had news of its own: its first batch of 23 century-old, endangered Xilankapu textiles […]
The first sound at Cai’er Teahouse on October 1 was a nursery rhyme. Children and adults gathered at the waterside stage on the Laodaohe river in Changsha’s Kaifu district to sing “The Moon Cake, with Daddy Sitting Inside,” their local accent drifting over the tea steam. The performance series “Teahouse Elegance, Celebrating National Day” opened […]
Inside the Qinhuai Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall, at 21 Chaoku Street in Nanjing’s Qinhuai district, a cluster of blossoms sits under glass without water and still holds a soft sheen. The petals are silk. In the cases, Ronghua, or velvet flowers, appear as hairpins, brooches, bouquets and desk ornaments, with birds, fish and insects worked […]
No robe appeared more often in a Ming dynasty man’s wardrobe than the Daopao. From the emperor down to scholars and ordinary townsmen, almost everyone wore one as everyday dress. It was neither a ceremonial garment nor a robe reserved for the literati: it took the form of a one-piece long coat with a right-lapel […]
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