On August 10, 2026, an intangible heritage gallery of Bai embroidery opened in Shuanglang (双廊), a lakeside town on the shore of Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, built by Zhao Tian’e (赵天鹅), a municipal-level inheritor of Bai embroidery. The gallery is free to all visitors. On opening day, Zhao walked visitors […]
On August 8, 2026, the launch ceremony for the Yanjing Bada (Eight Imperial Crafts of Beijing) Harbin Exhibition Center, themed “Jingyun Gongyi, Huiju Longjiang” (京韵宫艺 汇耀龙江), was held at the Harbin Museum. Co-hosted by the Beijing Yanjing Bada Museum and the Harbin Museum, the ceremony marked the first permanent display window for the eight imperial […]
On the evening of August 8, 2026, the “Wind Rising Over the Hexi Corridor, Feasting the World” (风起河西宴天下) Shandan 2026 cultural-tourism promotion week and the fourth Chaobola Food Carnival opened at Zhixing Square in Shandan County, Zhangye, Gansu Province. Built around intangible heritage food and the Silk Road as its cultural core, the event runs […]
Two thousand years before “beauty routine” entered any dictionary, Han-dynasty women had already standardized one: a light pink base, rouge pressed onto the cheekbones, eyebrows drawn in one of several named styles. On August 15, 2026, the Weinan Museum in Shaanxi, in partnership with the Han Yangling Museum, opens “Han Yun Liufang” (汉韵流芳) — “Han […]
The T-shaped silk painting that has anchored the summer at China Art Museum in Shanghai is going home, and the museum has turned its final two evenings into a Hanfu night. On August 15 and 16, the “Qianjin Zhijia” (千金之家, “A Home of a Thousand Gold”) exhibition on the lifestyle aesthetics of the Mawangdui Han […]
Moving 95 relics across roughly 3,000 kilometers, through four provinces and five museums, is the part of an exhibition that no visitor ever sees. The public part began on August 13, 2026, when “Zhenguan Tianxia” (贞观天下) — “The Tang World Under Emperor Li Shimin” — opened in the first-floor temporary gallery of the Huizhou Museum […]
The first sound visitors heard at Zhangze Lake National Urban Wetland Park on August 14 was not a ribbon being cut but the Shangdang Bayin Hui (上党八音会) — the region’s eight-tone ensemble — filling the shore with drums, gongs and suona horns before a single stall had opened. The “See Changzhi” Intangible Heritage Carnival had […]
If you have ever wanted to walk a riverside in a Tang robe and call it an assignment, this is the closest thing to a formal invitation. On August 11, the 38th Guangyuan Daughter Festival (广元女儿节) opened recruitment for “Poetry on the Shu Road” (诗行蜀道), a Hanfu parade that will run along 1.6 kilometers of […]
The hard part of “Duobaolianping” (多宝联屏) was never the carving or the weaving — it was the seam, the place where a three-dimensional cloisonné wall vase has to sit on a flat Yunjin brocade surface without either side crushing the other. On August 13, 2026, the work’s global launch at the Beijing Arts and Crafts […]
If you are in Xingtai this month and want a Qixi plan that does not involve a restaurant reservation, walk into the Jialeyuan Life Plaza (家乐园生活广场) market on Shengshi Road any day until August 30. The Guofeng street zone runs four sections, heritage crafts, specialty food, Qixi merchandise and local tourism displays, and the whole […]
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