Against the Current Premieres Sept 11 on CCTV-8 and Tencent

Against the Current Premieres Sept 11 on CCTV-8 and Tencent

Before the costume drama Against the Current (兰香如故) could dress a single character, its crew built the world those characters live in. The production occupied about 40 mu (roughly 25,000 square meters) in Hengdian (横店) and spent 155 days raising a Ming-dynasty official residence at 1:1 scale, with the core set Zhichun Guan (知春馆) finished […]

How Central China Steams and Simmers Its Mid-Autumn Table

How Central China Steams and Simmers Its Mid-Autumn Table

Coarse rice flour, toasted until it yellows, is the line between a Mianyang steamed dish and any other steamed dish in Hubei. On September 7, students in the culinary and nutrition education program at Hubei University of Economics spent their first class of the semester learning where that line runs, taught by Wu Feng, chairman […]

China-ASEAN Heritage Week Puts Zhuang Brocade on Stage

China-ASEAN Heritage Week Puts Zhuang Brocade on Stage

For four days, Nanning’s Sanjie Xiangxiang historic district is being run as a single continuous venue rather than a set of separate shows. The fourth China-ASEAN Intangible Cultural Heritage Week opened there on the evening of September 24 and runs through September 28, carrying across the Mid-Autumn holiday, with the arcade streets lit end to […]

Guangzhou Hanfu Season Kicks Off Inside Baiyun Station

Guangzhou Hanfu Season Kicks Off Inside Baiyun Station

A traveler with a suitcase in one hand and a phone in the other stops mid-stride near the east concourse, because a woman in a Tang-style robe has just walked past her toward a stage set up between the departure boards. Within a minute there are twenty phones raised. That was the opening afternoon of […]

Mid-Autumn Hanfu Nights Fill Luoyang Old Town Alleys

Mid-Autumn Hanfu Nights Fill Luoyang Old Town Alleys

Autumn wind moves down the old lanes of Luoyang’s Old Town historic district, and the Hanfu visitors move with it, so that every few steps the view resets: a grey brick wall, a lantern, a sleeve catching the light, then a food stall. On the Mid-Autumn holiday the district filled the way it does at […]

Ren Chunmei Walks Tang Couture at Paris Fashion Week

Ren Chunmei Walks Tang Couture at Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week’s official schedule carried a Tang-dynasty collection on October 2, when the Chinese designer Ren Chunmei staged a solo show at La Galerie Bourbon, a former Bourbon royal mansion in the Golden Triangle district of central Paris. The presentation carried forty-one pieces of hand-made haute couture built around the spirit of the High […]

How Yichang Red-Oil Buns Built a Seven-Store Brand

How Yichang Red-Oil Buns Built a Seven-Store Brand

Lu Dan (鲁丹) came back to Yichang, in Hubei, to keep his father’s food factory from closing. He started on the workshop line and spent his off-hours learning the city’s traditional sweet-potato pastry. In 2018 he opened a small bun shop, Lubao Bao (鲁包包), in the city’s logistics district. Eight years later it runs seven […]

Wonderful Dunhuang Mural Color Matching 1

Wonderful Dunhuang Mural Color Matching

1. A very wonderful group of paintings and cos👍 Comments Eddie · coooool LiangYuZuan · I love this. Cosplay to re-enact a beautiful painting. 2. Wonderful Dunhuang mural color matching Comments Ling · Thanks for sharing.Put in modern times, they are also very unique in style. LiangYuZuan · Picture 3 and 7 will be my […]

At Chengdu Wuhou Shrine, Shu Brocade Anchors a Fair

At Chengdu Wuhou Shrine, Shu Brocade Anchors a Fair

Chengdu’s Wuhou Shrine Museum turned its National Day programme into a working craft fair this year, and the public came in numbers. Working with the Wuhou district culture, sports and tourism bureau, the museum staged “Hanfeng Huadan: Jinnan Miajie”, a week of performances, markets, games and exhibitions built around Sichuan’s own trades. Over the holiday […]

A 3.3-Meter Wok Serves Oil Tea to Guanyang Guests

A 3.3-Meter Wok Serves Oil Tea to Guanyang Guests

Guanyang county in Guangxi opened its 2026 Powang Festival and Oil Tea Culture Week on October 5, filling the streets of the county seat with a folk parade, a hundred-meter long-table banquet, bonfires and fireworks. The county sits on land the Yao people treat as an ancestral home, and this year’s holiday programme was built […]

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