Over the National Day holiday, a costume pageant in Laifeng county, Hubei, sent 12 examples of Xilankapu down a stage alongside Tujia dress, drawing crowds to a craft most visitors had only read about. Behind the show, the county’s ethnic museum had news of its own: its first batch of 23 century-old, endangered Xilankapu textiles […]
The first sound at Cai’er Teahouse on October 1 was a nursery rhyme. Children and adults gathered at the waterside stage on the Laodaohe river in Changsha’s Kaifu district to sing “The Moon Cake, with Daddy Sitting Inside,” their local accent drifting over the tea steam. The performance series “Teahouse Elegance, Celebrating National Day” opened […]
Inside the Qinhuai Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall, at 21 Chaoku Street in Nanjing’s Qinhuai district, a cluster of blossoms sits under glass without water and still holds a soft sheen. The petals are silk. In the cases, Ronghua, or velvet flowers, appear as hairpins, brooches, bouquets and desk ornaments, with birds, fish and insects worked […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), marriage is not a quiet footnote. It is a battlefield with teacups and account books. Lanxiang (兰香) watches three maids she trusts: Yuchan (玉蝉), Xiaolian (小莲), and Gantang (甘棠). Yuchan marries Jiugao (九皋), Xiaolian marries Nanke (南客). Both become wives of Qianhu (千户), a military rank with real weight. Then […]
In the finale of Against the Current (兰香如故), a dying woman says a name that belongs to two daughters. Xu Lanxiang (许兰香) turns, thinking her mother calls her. Then Xue Guihua (薛桂花) whispers, “Lanxiang is coming for me.” The room goes quiet. Xu Lanxiang does not scream. Her tears fall without sound. Why? Not only […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), the funeral of First Madam leaves almost everyone in tears. Viewers mourn her life and admire her unusual grace. Only after she is gone does the truth settle: Lanxiang (兰香) did not receive her greatest fortune when she married Lin Jinqi (林锦岐). Her real blessing was having the First Madam […]
No robe appeared more often in a Ming dynasty man’s wardrobe than the Daopao. From the emperor down to scholars and ordinary townsmen, almost everyone wore one as everyday dress. It was neither a ceremonial garment nor a robe reserved for the literati: it took the form of a one-piece long coat with a right-lapel […]
China’s new Chinese-style apparel market passed 250 billion yuan in 2025. Hanfu alone cleared 20 billion yuan, and Caoxian county in Shandong, one of the country’s largest Hanfu manufacturing bases, contributed more than 13 billion yuan of that. The growth figures arrive with a set of problems the trade now recites without being asked: thin […]
Nine years of stitching, 121 named stitches, 80 embroiderers and 1,132 birds and animals: those are the numbers behind a scroll of Tibetan embroidery that was certified in Xining on September 24 as the world’s longest, at 270 metres end to end and 2.6 metres high. Certification came at the launch of the Guinan Tibetan […]
“Finding a heritage craft workshop used to mean asking around a dozen Hanfu group chats,” Zhang Yuhui (张宇慧), the project lead, said at the opening. “Selling the Guofeng jewellery you made yourself meant hauling it through a dozen markets.” On September 28, Huashang Yaji, a traditional-culture industry platform built in Xi’an, went live with a […]
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