The Winter Solstice, or Dongzhi in Chinese, is the fourth of the 24 traditional Chinese solar terms. It falls on Dec.22 this year, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, marking t...
A new bibliography of Traditional Chinese Medicine books, unveiled in Beijing on Tuesday, has cataloged 8,650 books written and published before 1912.
The Chinese character for "zhen," meaning "self-inspire," and "high-quality development" have been respectively chosen as the Character and Word of the Year 2023 in China, according to a survey rel...
On December 16, the opening ceremony of the Royal "Tourism" Cultural and Creative Design Exhibition and the award ceremony of the 3rd Summer Palace Cultural and Creative Design Competition were hel...
Remains of a housing cluster dating back to more than 4,000 ago have been unearthed in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
A total of 71 ancient tombs dating back from Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) were unearthed.
Last Thursday, a group of international students from Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) engaged in a cultural tour in Beijing.
China's policymakers underlined on Tuesday the need to prioritize the protection and development of cultural heritage, calling for strengthening international exchanges and cooperation in this field.
The 2023 Wuhan Poetry Festival opened on December 16 at Zhuo’er Bookstore in Jiang'an District, Wuhan. Famous poets, writers, and critics such as Ye Yanbin and Yang Ke gathered in Wuhan to share t...
On December 15th, the first "Silk Road Cultural Stories" Creative Design Competition award ceremony and the opening ceremony of the exhibition on award-winning works were held at the Xi'an Art Museum.
On December 14th, the donation ceremony for the Genealogy of Zhongzi and General Recordsof ZongziFamily was held in Confucius Research Institutein Qufu, Jining city, Shandong province.
On December 15th, the "Academic Seminar on the Contemporary Value and Innovative Development of Mencius Thought",hosted by the Mencius Research Institute and the Jining Social Science Federation,wa...
More than 70 tombs dating back centuries were discovered in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province, said local authorities on Saturday.
More than 70 tombs and 108 pieces of cultural relics dating from the Jin Dynasty (265-420) to the Qing (1644-1911) Dynasty have been unearthed in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, accord...
A conference aimed at promoting the protection and industrial development of ancient architecture kicked off Monday in Huangshan City in east China's Anhui Province, which is famous for its Hui-sty...
Lin Xiaolin is the third-generation inheritor of the craft of making Chengni inkstone, which has been listed as one of China's national intangible cultural heritages, in north China's Shanxi Province.
On a Sunday morning, a group of people dressed in traditional Chinese martial arts attire gathered on the lawn beneath Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower. Accompanied by the sou...
On a Sunday morning, a group of people dressed in traditional Chinese martial arts attire gathered on the lawn beneath Dubai's iconic Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower. Accompanied by the sou...
A lantern festival opened here on Saturday as part of the celebrations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon.
This aerial photo taken on Dec. 15, 2023 shows a view of Xizang grand theatre in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Xizang grand theatre became operational on Friday.
A Traditional Chinese Medicine Center was unveiled on Friday in the Tunisian capital Tunis.
Nandu town, a millennium-old town in Cenxi city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is known for its bamboo weaving skills, which have been designated as a local intangible cultural he...
The Yuyuan lantern show was included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage in 2008. The festival in Paris will be part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment...
The leading group for the fourth national cultural heritage survey in China held its first meeting on Thursday.
Recently, the exhibitionof Intangible Cultural Heritage “Cloud Brocade”, which wasplanned and created by the Nanjing Cloud Brocade Museum in China, has landed in Jing'an, Shanghai. This time, in ...
On December 8th, the 5th Maritime Silk Road International Art Festival opened in Quanzhou, Fujian.
On the afternoon of December 13th, the special exhibition "Bronze Light: The Transcendental Dialogue between Sanxingdui and Rodin" opened at the Shanghai University Museum.
On December 12th, the kickoff meeting for the compilation of "Sixteen Medical Books Excavated from the Mawangdui Han Tomb" was held in Changsha, Hunan.
Recently, the actors of the musical "The Book of Songs: GatheringThorn-ferns " completed an immersive outdoor performance at the “Book of Songs Botanical Garden” in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
On December 9th, the Global Perspective on the Theory of Good Nature and the Seminaronthe new book Human Nature and Its Good and Evil from Ancient, Modern, Chinese and Foreign Perspectives: Centere...
A college research team from East China's Jiangsu Province has recently released China's first large language model (LLM), a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that uses deep learning t...
The Grottoes Art Immersive Exhibition officially opened to the public at the National Museum of China on December 9. Giant digital Imaging and immersive viewing are the biggest highlights of this e...
On December 10, thepress conference was held in Tsinghua University to release its research results on bamboo slips.
Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the outcome of 2023 national evaluation of social organizations, among which the China Confucius Foundation was rated as a 4A-level foundation. The...
On December 10th, the new session of the China Confucius Foundation and the first meeting of the seventh council were held in Jinan.
The fifth Maritime Silk Road International Arts Festival kicked off Friday in Quanzhou in east China's Fujian Province, a city widely believed to be the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk ...
A senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official on Saturday pledged continuous efforts to support Chinese language education in international society and to provide sound support and guarantee for...
The Chinese character "融", pronounced as rónɡ and meaning integration, was selected as the 2023 Cross-Strait Chinese Character, in Taipei on Friday.
Archaeology magazine chose to include the remains of more than 400 sacrificed animals in their list of top 10 discoveries of 2023. Among the remains is the first skeleton of a giant panda to be fou...
On the evening of December 5th, the first China ASEAN (Nanning) Culture Month and the 10th China ASEAN (Nanning) Drama Week opened in Nanning.
The academic seminar "Confucianism, New Confucianism, and Post New Confucianism: Reflection on the Development of Contemporary Confucianism" opened on December 2 in Jinan, Shandong. More than 50 sc...
On December 6, the mascot "Long Chenchen" forthe 2024 Dragon Year Spring Festival Gala on China Central Television was officially released.
On December 5, the special exhibition of "Ancient Chinese Civilization Exhibition: Rites, Faith and Diversity" was unveiled in Ningbo Museum. The exhibition was jointly launched by Ningbo Museum an...
The signing ceremony of strategic cooperation between the Palace Museum and Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Group was held in Beijing on Dec 5. As the first important result of the strategic cooperation betw...
Themed “Poetry - Artificial Intelligence”, the eighth International Poetry Festival Kicks Off on December 2 at Zikamei Library in Shanghai.
The modern dance and poetry drama A Memoryof Dongpo in Poetrywill be staged at Poly Theater in Beijing from December1 to 3.
On the morning of December 2, the grand opening of "The 2ndChina-ASEAN Forum on the Confucian Studies" was held in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. More than 30 well-known scholars and guests...
On December 3, the first Liangzhu Forum was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Over 300 guests from home and abroad attended the event.
From November 26 to 27, the second session of Joint Meeting of National Family Cultural Research and Seminar on Yan’sFamily Rulesand Family Culture of ChineseNation was held in Qufu. More than 60 ...
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration on Wednesday unveiled new archaeological discoveries at the ruins of Liangzhu ancient city and its water conservancy system.