A Qiqiao (乞巧) offering display is not a painting you hang and walk past. It is a diorama built from grain, paper, bamboo and patience, and Wangniudun (望牛墩) put 21 of them, one from each village in the town, on show from the evening of August 18 at the Wangniudun Cultural Square in Dongguan. The […]
The 26th Hohhot Zhaojun Culture Festival opened on August 15 and runs through August 30. Built around the theme “Millennium of Zhaojun Harmony, a Shared Rendezvous in the Green City,” the festival links the Zhaojun Museum, the Chilechuan Grassland (敕勒川草原), Saishang Old Street (塞上老街) and several shopping districts into a single program of performances, night […]
If you are in Shenzhen this month and want a Qixi (七夕) evening that costs nothing, Honghuashan Park (红花山公园) in Guangming District is the place to go. The Honghuashan Qixi Romantic Night opened on the evening of August 15 with a Hanfu parade, a Chinese-style market and a lawn concert, and it stays free to […]
Books and the qipao now share a clubhouse in Shanghai. The Bookish Qipao Reading Club was inaugurated on the evening of August 17 at Xujiahui Academy (徐家汇书院), the library in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, under the banner “Bookish Light, Qipao Bloom.” It forms a centerpiece of the 2026 Xujiahui Academy “Seeking Light Night” Reading Carnival, co-organized […]
The collar that Western fashion calls the Mandarin collar sits neither high nor low, circles the neck without lapels, and needs no tie. It shows up on custom qipao from Shanghai, on the Nehru jacket, on the Beatles’ collarless suits, and on the standing-collar silhouettes that kept appearing at the Milan and Paris menswear shows […]
Every made-to-order suit of Ming-style Hanfu from Minghuatang (明华堂) takes three to four days to cut and finish by hand, and the Guangzhou-based label’s order book now runs to March 2027. The brand, often described as the ceiling of the Hanfu industry, was profiled on August 21 by China News Service in a report on […]
Press a rubbing of a dragon-and-phoenix motif and the structure of Luchou silk (潞绸) becomes visible: warp threads packed so evenly that the woven pattern reads like a painting. That rubbing station, set up inside the Lu-Anfu (潞安府) Luchou Culture Park in Gaoping (高平), Shanxi, is where the eighth Luchou Dragon Phoenix Culture Festival opened […]
An imperial garden in northern Beijing now smells faintly of Guizhou (贵州) pepper and boiling beef broth. The Guizhou Heritage Roots Market opened on August 22 along the lotus-lined east shore of Beihai Park and runs through August 31, an unusual pairing: the ethnic-minority crafts of the mountainous southwest staged inside a former imperial retreat […]
Neo-Chinese style has moved from a niche runway statement to the headline category of China’s most important fashion platform. The autumn edition of China Fashion Week runs September 3-10 in Beijing with roughly 220 brands from China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, France, Switzerland, the United States, Colombia, Zambia and Malawi, and close to a hundred […]
When an international invitational exhibition makes its first stop in Songjiang (松江), it arrives with a local reason for being there: this year marks twenty years since Gu embroidery (顾绣), the district’s signature needle art, was listed in the first national batch of intangible cultural heritage. The occasion is the subject of a dedicated gallery […]
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