At three in the afternoon on October 1 the parade came down the street in waves. Young men and women in Hanfu moved through Confucius Temple Square and into the Xintiandi pedestrian street, dancers pausing to perform the sword piece “Sword Soul,” the classical “Song of the Pipa,” and “One Flower, One Sword” at set
“Come to Wansuishan and you have to book a styling session and change into a period look,” remarked one visitor from Chengdu, describing a stop that has become routine in the city of Kaifeng. “You walk into the park in character. It is a lot of fun.” That impulse showed up in the numbers. Meituan
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
“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
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
Costumed role-players were the busiest draw at many Chinese scenic spots this National Day holiday. Parks staged historical reenactments, Song-dynasty street parades, joke-trading “wild men” and theme-park variety turns, and the casting notices behind them kept trending online. Well-known sites put out public recruitment calls for the holiday peak, and the wave has become the
Zhou Ye (周也) has a new photo set, and it does not ask for gentle approval. Shot by Zuo Hetong (左和童), the images push a mood of bad and beautiful: cold, sharp, and strangely magnetic. The visual base is Chinese style, but not the soft kind. A Ming-style stand collar, black-green clash, butterfly embroidery, silk
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When actor Liu Xueyi (刘学义) steps into Against the Current (兰香如故), his character Lin Jinqi (林锦岐) comes home after earning military merit. He wears dark armor with hidden patterns. A black net cap sits on his head. One detail jumps out: a white cloth at the crossed collar, pressed against his neck. Does it look
