At dusk on August 21, the two blocks of Yaochi Tianjie (瑶池天街) filled with tables placed end to end, and servers dressed as the fairies of the Jade Pool moved down the line with platters. The moment marked the opening of the 2026 Xiwangmu Yaochi Peach Festival (西王母瑶池蟠桃会) at the Tianshan Tianchi (天山天池) scenic area […]
On August 22, “The Spirit of Jing Embroidery” (京绣里的精气神), a teacher-student exhibition of Li-family Jing embroidery by fifth-generation inheritor Liu Xiaoyan (刘晓燕), opened at the Yanjing Bada Museum (北京燕京八绝博物馆) in Beijing’s Shijingshan District (石景山区). The show presents close to a hundred recent works of Jing embroidery (京绣) and runs through October 22. The Palace Embroidery […]
Open any serious study of Ming-dynasty menswear and the same three names appear together: the Zhiduo (直裰), the Daopao (道袍) and the Zhishen (直身). All are crossed-collar, right-lapel long gowns that hang past the knee, and at a glance they look like one garment. The differences sit in the fabric panel each robe does or […]
Steam rose off the snack griddles of Xi’an’s Huangchengli Minleyuan Pedestrian Street (皇城里·民乐园步行街) on August 22, when the “Minle Fireworks Market” Stroll Festival opened a two-month run that lasts until October 22. The block folds Chinese-style stage shows, intangible-heritage opera, pop-up concerts and street food into one summer-to-autumn program built around the old city’s everyday […]
If your idea of a summer outing is a stretch of golden sunflowers and a slow walk, Yongji County (永吉县) in Jilin City, Jilin Province, had its answer ready on August 22. That morning the county’s sunflower fields were the scene of the “Skirts Aflutter Like Warm Sunlight” Hanfu show, the latest stop in a […]
On August 29, a runway inside The Fan Museum in Greenwich, London, will hold five silhouettes that rarely share a stage: the Qipao, the Hanfu, the kimono, the ao dai and the hanbok. The models will mostly not be professionals; they will be mothers and daughters, grandmothers and granddaughters drawn from East Asian communities across […]
A hundred people took the stage together on the night of August 22 at Xiushui Zhuangyuan Village (秀水状元村) in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi: professional models and representatives of a hundred qipao associations performed side by side for the Guipei Wangu Qipao melody show. The show was the centerpiece of the “Top of the List, […]
At nine on the morning of August 19, the Qixi Festival, a procession of Hanfu-clad couples began filling Shuiyun Square (水韵广场) in Yunxi County, Hubei. The occasion was the 2026 collective wedding ceremony under the banner “Tianhe Bears Witness, Hearts Settle in Yunxi”, which paired 77 couples from Shandong, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong, Hunan and […]
August 19, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, saw the “Wholehearted Love in Xinfu” edition of the national “Our Festival: Qixi” event open at the central square of Qicun Town (奇村镇) in Xinfu District, Xinzhou (忻州市), Shanxi. The program began with a parade of 150 Hanfu enthusiasts organized into Tang-style, Song-style and Ming-style […]
The costume drama Ting Yin (听银) wrapped filming on August 19, Qixi Festival day, and released its wrap special the same week. The series, a revenge-and-scheming web drama adapted from the novel of the same name by Ban Jie Mingyue (半截明月) on Zhihu’s Yanyan fiction platform, completed its 35-day shoot as a co-production of Mango TV […]
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