China’s new Chinese-style apparel market passed 250 billion yuan in 2025. Hanfu alone cleared 20 billion yuan, and Caoxian county in Shandong, one of the country’s largest Hanfu manufacturing bases, contributed more than 13 billion yuan of that. The growth figures arrive with a set of problems the trade now recites without being asked: thin […]
Nine years of stitching, 121 named stitches, 80 embroiderers and 1,132 birds and animals: those are the numbers behind a scroll of Tibetan embroidery that was certified in Xining on September 24 as the world’s longest, at 270 metres end to end and 2.6 metres high. Certification came at the launch of the Guinan Tibetan […]
“Finding a heritage craft workshop used to mean asking around a dozen Hanfu group chats,” Zhang Yuhui (张宇慧), the project lead, said at the opening. “Selling the Guofeng jewellery you made yourself meant hauling it through a dozen markets.” On September 28, Huashang Yaji, a traditional-culture industry platform built in Xi’an, went live with a […]
If you walk past the Yiliang County gymnasium before October 7, the smell will tell you what is happening inside. The 2026 Yiliang Roast Duck Food Carnival opened there on September 29, and its headline event is a national roast duck cooking contest that brought 116 chefs onto one floor. Organisation sits with the China […]
Music started at Xishi Square before the light had gone soft over the flower beds. On September 26, the Sichuan provincial round of the Liyi Huaxia (“Ritual Garments of China”) Hanfu Model Contest took over Huaxiang Nongju in Sansheng Township, Jinjiang District, Chengdu, and with it opened the Hongsha Xishi autumn culture program, a holiday […]
Guyi Garden opened its gates to a runway on September 30. The 500-year-old Jiangnan classical garden in Jiading District, the largest of its kind in Shanghai, hosted the award showcase for the 2026 Shanghai Citizens’ Culture Festival Guochao (国潮) makeup and talent contest, and for one afternoon its bamboo and grey tile stood in for […]
On the evening of September 28, the 2026 Xuzhou Han Culture Tourism Festival got under way on the shore of Yunlong Lake, with the launch ceremony staged at the sunken plaza of the Yunlong Lake Concert Hall. Several thousand invited guests and residents filled the site for the start of a program that runs into […]
A handscroll nearly seven meters long, crowded with figures, carts, bridges and water, was once remade in thread. The 1959 Bian embroidery version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival hangs at the Tsinghua University Art Museum, and its inscription records an improbable schedule: 22 women workers at the Kaifeng Bian Embroidery Factory, 35 […]
Flax and rose are what you notice first in a Liangzhou mooncake, then the steam. The cake is heavy, flat-faced and banded with color, and in Wuwei it has been made the same way for centuries. “Heaven above, send it down big, mooncakes as big as a cartwheel,” runs a children’s rhyme still chanted in […]
In 2022 Luoyang had 18 Hanfu experience shops. The city now counts more than 1,600, a 75-fold rise in three years, and the trade supports over 30,000 jobs as shop managers, makeup artists, photographers and livestream hosts. The Old Town district alone has drawn more than 15 million Hanfu visits and close to 2.6 billion […]
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