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On October 8, 2026, the autumn ancestral ceremony of Zhuge Bagua Village (诸葛八卦村) in Lanxi (兰溪), Zhejiang, drew attention for its solemn ritual and striking costumes. The chief officiant and attendants wore unified robes in a Ming-dynasty style as they offered incense, presented offerings, and recited the sacrificial text. Because the ceremony honors Zhuge Liang […]
Munao Zongge, the great circle dance of the Jingpo people of southwest Yunnan, closed a Mid-Autumn and China National Day programme in Nigeria as the finale item, performed by the Nigeria Huaxing Art Troupe. People’s Daily’s overseas edition reported the performance on October 12. More than a hundred dancers took the floor together, and the […]
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 […]
Recently, viewers of Against the Current (兰香如故) heard Tan Songyun (谭松韵), playing Xu Lanxiang (许兰香), call her foster mother Mama (妈妈). Many felt a jolt. In period dramas, they expect Niang (娘). “Mama” sounds modern, almost borrowed. The reaction is real, but history is messier. The show places its story in a Ming Dynasty market […]
Flax and rose are what you notice first in a Liangzhou mooncake, then the steam. The cake is heavy, flat-faced and banded with color, and in Wuwei it has been made the same way for centuries. “Heaven above, send it down big, mooncakes as big as a cartwheel,” runs a children’s rhyme still chanted in […]
The programming logic behind Sichuan’s newest heritage showcase is visible in its running order. Rather than arrange the province’s crafts as a list, the producers split the evening into six chapters and let each one carry a different material: a river chant, a woven thread, a length of bamboo, a stage tradition, a gathering of […]
The general’s temple fair in Wucheng, a town in Xiuning County, Anhui, opened on September 4 for an eight-day run through September 11, filling a stretch of the old settlement with food stalls, folk processions and stage shows from morning until late. The venue is the phase-two site of the Wucheng specialty block, and the […]
Fengjing, the canal town in Shanghai’s Jinshan District, is recruiting twenty couples for the twentieth edition of its Wu-Yue Corner water town wedding, set for September 26 and 27, with the main ceremony on the evening of the twenty-sixth. Couples marry in old-style dress and follow a traditional ceremony, and the organizers bill the event […]
Coarse rice flour, toasted until it yellows, is the line between a Mianyang steamed dish and any other steamed dish in Hubei. On September 7, students in the culinary and nutrition education program at Hubei University of Economics spent their first class of the semester learning where that line runs, taught by Wu Feng, chairman […]
Guanyang county in Guangxi opened its 2026 Powang Festival and Oil Tea Culture Week on October 5, filling the streets of the county seat with a folk parade, a hundred-meter long-table banquet, bonfires and fireworks. The county sits on land the Yao people treat as an ancestral home, and this year’s holiday programme was built […]
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