If you walk past the Yiliang County gymnasium before October 7, the smell will tell you what is happening inside. The 2026 Yiliang Roast Duck Food Carnival opened there on September 29, and its headline event is a national roast duck cooking contest that brought 116 chefs onto one floor. Organisation sits with the China […]
Music started at Xishi Square before the light had gone soft over the flower beds. On September 26, the Sichuan provincial round of the Liyi Huaxia (“Ritual Garments of China”) Hanfu Model Contest took over Huaxiang Nongju in Sansheng Township, Jinjiang District, Chengdu, and with it opened the Hongsha Xishi autumn culture program, a holiday […]
Guyi Garden opened its gates to a runway on September 30. The 500-year-old Jiangnan classical garden in Jiading District, the largest of its kind in Shanghai, hosted the award showcase for the 2026 Shanghai Citizens’ Culture Festival Guochao (国潮) makeup and talent contest, and for one afternoon its bamboo and grey tile stood in for […]
On the evening of September 28, the 2026 Xuzhou Han Culture Tourism Festival got under way on the shore of Yunlong Lake, with the launch ceremony staged at the sunken plaza of the Yunlong Lake Concert Hall. Several thousand invited guests and residents filled the site for the start of a program that runs into […]
When Zhou Ye (周也) released a new set of Hanfu portraits, viewers expected soft gardens, quiet gestures, and gentle light. Instead, they met red and blue backdrops, a black vest over a green robe, and a mood closer to a ghost story than a spring album. The images quickly split opinion. Some said they were […]
Near its finale, Against the Current (兰香如故) has earned praise for a story that refuses easy comfort. Xu Lanxiang (许兰香) returns from Jinling (金陵) to the capital in episode 31, leaving the place where her troubles began and facing the city that once belonged to her. The cruelest villain, Zhao Gelao (赵阁老), caused the massacre […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), Li Meng (李梦) plays a woman whose hair is rarely without one small object: an earpick hairpin. At first glance, the accessory looks odd, a pin topped with a tiny spoon. Some viewers joke that ancient people simply stuck a cleaning tool into their buns and pulled it out when […]
Recent period drama Against the Current (兰香如故) has stirred amused debate. Two male actors appear in women’s clothing, with two separate looks, and viewers keep comparing them. In costume dramas, women disguised as men are familiar. Men disguised as women? Much rarer. Why does one direction feel natural on screen while the other still shocks? […]
Every autumn, shops fill with mooncakes, and families plan reunions. Yet ask why the Mid-Autumn Festival carries that name, and many answers become fog. We repeat customs without checking their roots. The moon seems eternal, a silver coin pinned to the sky. Science says otherwise. Its history is messy, violent, and strange. The festival itself […]
In Against the Current (兰香如故), a wedding scene has caused a small storm. Liu Xueyi (刘学义) plays Elder Lin (林). He marries Xu Lanxiang (许兰香), played by Tan Songyun (谭松韵). On his left shoulder sits a square of red velvet. Viewers ask: is that a prop mistake? Why velvet? Why a shoulder cloth at all? […]
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