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All Supplies in an Ancient Scholar’s Book Box
What did ancient students carry to school? If you picture a simple cloth bag with a single book and a brush, think again. Their schoolbags were packed with everything from carved wooden boxes and self-sharpened ink sticks to miniature knives for scraping off mistakes. They carried stacked meal boxes, lime sachets as hand warmers, wooden
Tassels Ruin the Majesty of a Sui Royal Headdress
Yangzhou (扬州), 648 AD. A queen’s crown is lowered into the earth beside her emperor. Nearly 1,400 years later, that same crown – shattered into a hundred fragments – forces a question: why does Royal Betrothal (御廷谣) turn its most authentic relic into a strange, tasseled spectacle? The answer is not about bad taste. It
Luoyang Guofeng Show: 200 Models in Boundary-Free Hanfu Spectacle
At 17:30 on August 7, 2026, the “Yiguan Heluo · Luoyi Guofeng Cultural Gala” — a Hanfu culture and Guofeng fashion pageant — opened at Luoyi Ancient City in Luoyang. Jointly hosted by the Luoyang Hanfu Research Institute and the Model Professional Committee of the Henan Provincial Garment Industry Association, with multiple cultural-tourism, cultural-promotion and
Caoxian Hanfu: 2,822 Firms, 7-Day Turnaround, Mamianqun as Gift
On August 11, the People’s Daily Overseas Edition published “China Chic Wins Foreign Consumers — Bringing China’s ‘Good Products’ Home,” spotlighting the export momentum of Caoxian, Shandong, the country’s core original Hanfu production hub. Caoxian concentrates 2,822 Hanfu enterprises and more than 15,000 online stores. Its complete modern supply chain covers dyeing, embroidery and garment
27 First-Class Relics in Huizhou’s Zhenguan Tang Exhibition
Moving 95 relics across roughly 3,000 kilometers, through four provinces and five museums, is the part of an exhibition that no visitor ever sees. The public part began on August 13, 2026, when “Zhenguan Tianxia” (贞观天下) — “The Tang World Under Emperor Li Shimin” — opened in the first-floor temporary gallery of the Huizhou Museum
21 Qiqiao Offerings Take the Stage at Dongguan
A Qiqiao (乞巧) offering display is not a painting you hang and walk past. It is a diorama built from grain, paper, bamboo and patience, and Wangniudun (望牛墩) put 21 of them, one from each village in the town, on show from the evening of August 18 at the Wangniudun Cultural Square in Dongguan. The
Guangyuan Daughter Festival Recruits Hanfu Parade Walkers
If you have ever wanted to walk a riverside in a Tang robe and call it an assignment, this is the closest thing to a formal invitation. On August 11, the 38th Guangyuan Daughter Festival (广元女儿节) opened recruitment for “Poetry on the Shu Road” (诗行蜀道), a Hanfu parade that will run along 1.6 kilometers of
Rongchang River Lantern Fete Illuminates Wanling Town
The Qixi (七夕) river lantern tradition of Rongchang (荣昌) began in 2014, and the eleventh edition of the festival opened on August 15 in Wanling Ancient Town (万灵古镇), a national AAAA scenic area in Chongqing. The five-day event runs through August 19 under the banner “Millennium Rongchang,” pairing intangible-heritage performances, concerts, market stalls and night-light
