When Against the Current (兰香如故) reached viewers, one detail refused to stay quiet: Liu Xueyi (刘学义), playing Lord Lin Jinqi (林锦歧), kept sweeping across the screen in a long robe whose lower half opened like a modern puffy skirt. Fans called it cute, odd, even “out of period.” The question sounded simple. Did men in […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), a pair of hairpins becomes a quiet scandal. Elder Lin (林) gives them to Xu Lanxiang (许兰香), yet she never pins them into her hair. Sharp-eyed viewers noticed something stranger: the ornaments match a museum piece. One sits in a case; the other, he jokes, belongs to his wife. The […]
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 […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), Liu Xueyi appears as Master Lin (林) in a pink front-buttoned round-collar robe. The cut points to the Ming Dynasty. The color makes viewers pause. Did men in ancient China really dress this boldly? The question says more about modern habits than old ones. We often treat pink as feminine, […]
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 […]
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