On October 9 the China National Museum of Women and Children in Beijing handed its floor to a design project. Twenty-two outfits made by the students and tutors of a National Arts Fund training programme for Guizhou ethnic dress went down a runway mixed with live dance, closing a run of workshops and fieldwork that […]
Song dynasty makeup is the origin story the neo-Chinese beauty market keeps borrowing from without naming. On 21 October 2026 Donghua University Press published an editorial piece that traced the actual recipes, working from Li Ya’s history of Chinese cosmetics and matching each technique to excavated murals and surviving court portraits. What it documents is […]
A question comes first at the Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum, before any object: if you could live your life again, would you still walk into this world of joy and grief? It is printed at the entrance to the underground route and repeated at the exit. Between those two points, across roughly two and a […]
A hall in Haidian is showing what happens when silk stops being cloth and starts functioning as ink. The exhibition, titled Carved Shadows, Woven Splendour, opened at Dongsheng Academy in the Dongsheng Cultural Industrial Park on 18 October, gathering dozens of Kesi silk tapestries from two traditions that rarely share a wall. Dates 18 October […]
At 10:06 on 15 October, drum and wind music started in Anyi Ancient Village in Anyi County, under Nanchang, and 30 couples walked up onto the platform side by side. The event was the 2026 Nanchang collective wedding, organised by the city’s publicity department, civil affairs bureau and women’s federation, and paired with a touring […]
You hear the drums before you see the costumes. Yiyang’s Ming-Qing Old Lanes are narrow enough that sound arrives ahead of the parade, bouncing off the brick and the arched buttresses that hold the old shopfronts upright, and by the time the first figures in Hanfu turn the corner the whole lane is already leaning […]
Anastasia, a 17-year-old reader in Balabanovo, outside Moscow, gives the same advice to anyone who asks where to begin with Chinese literature: start with the web novels, start with fantasy. She wanted to read Dream of the Red Chamber and could not get through it. Then she read Legend of Fuyao and The Rise of […]
Steam hangs over the courtyard of the Lanxu workshop in Zhoucheng, a village inside Xizhou Town in Yunnan’s Dali prefecture, and the air carries the faint green smell of dried indigo. Yang Julan, 69, works through the sequence in order: folding and binding the cloth, soaking it, rinsing it, hanging it out. A length of […]
What’s the hanfu style in the picture? It looks a bit like Qixiong, but I’m sure it’s not Comments PRANATHI · I think it’s modern version of tang Technical · I guess so. islaai · Heziqun? argumme · Not classic style, it’s Heziqun inspired dress
The dinner is delicious, but too spicy 😂 Comments sconnie · Sichuan food? ARTva · The emperor and the empress 👍 argumme · Wow, have a nice China trip Todd · Ming dynasty is the top fashion
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