When Lyu Yan arrived in Beijing for this year's national legislative session, her suitcase carried more than personal belongings. Inside were coconut oil, locally sourced agarwood and a set of figurines inspired by traditional Li brocade patterns — small items that tell a larger story about efforts to transform cultural heritage and specialty agriculture into new drivers of rural development.
Celebrating the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, in China emerged as a new global trend this year.Data show that inbound tourist arrivals during the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, which ran from Feb. 15 to 23, doubled year on year, while international tourists' flight bookings for the holiday surged more than 400 percent compared to the same period last year.
As the Chinese people celebrate the Year of the Horse, traditional culture has seen a surge in popularity, with various heritage elements "jumping on the bandwagon" to celebrate the zodiac animal associated with speed, strength and success.
An ongoing exhibition at theChina Cultural Centerin Madrid is celebrating the depth and diversity of Chinese culture not via the display of artifacts, but through creative products inspired by ancient objects from museum collections.
Registration for the 5th Cross-lingual Chanting Assemblyof Confucian Classics(CCACC)has officiallystarted.From now until May 15, we are accepting submissions from participants at home and abroad. Interested applicants may visit China Confucius Netatwww.chinakongzi.orgor download theChinaConfucius Net App for registration details.
The long course of Chinese art history has seen many artists use horses as subjects of their works. With fine brushwork, they highlighted the vigor of the animals by portraying the horse's role in rural customs, hunting, and recreation.
The Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden was filled with the aromas of Chinese food and snacks on Friday evening as an event themed "A Taste of China, Chinese Food Nights" got underway.
Ji Jie is deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science at the University of Science and Technology of China. Since taking charge of a key national research and development program focused on fire spread mechanisms, early warning, and assessment in heritage buildings, Ji and his team have visited nearly 100 cultural heritage sites across the country.
The 2026 Chinese New Year Bazaar was held Sunday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year.
Organizers said about 100,000 residents and tourists gathered along the Champs-Elysees to watch the 2026 Chinese New Year parade, filling the avenue with a festive Spring Festival atmosphere.
An Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission announced on Saturday that the team has uncovered an ancient "sacred lake" at the Montu Temple precinct in the Karnak Temple Complex in Luxor, a city renowned for its rich monuments in southern Egypt.
Move over Labubu. Equine collectibles and keepsakes are capturing the hearts — and wallets — of consumers in the run-up to Chinese New Year.
In a restoration room at Tianjin Library in northern China's Tianjin Municipality, Wang Hongjie steadies the paper with his fingertips and wets the frayed edges of the damaged areas with a goat hair brush that he has dipped into wheat-starch paste.
On January 13, Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies(Secretariat of China Confucius Foundation) held the sixth international frontier academic lecture. Chae Young Kim, a scholar attendingthe "Qilu Visiting Research Program" and professor of Sogang University in South Korea, was invited to give an academic presentation.
Recently, AnAnnotatedTranslation of The Great Learningand The Doctrine of the Mean from the "Nishan Series - AnAnnotated Translation ofChinese Classics", which was compiled by Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies (Secretariat of China Confucius Foundation)and published byThread-Binding Books Publishing House, with Guo Chengyan as the editor, hasbeen officially released.
On January 15, theAI short drama “Glorious Nishan”debuted online, accompanied by a creators’forum.
Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists have found early city walls constructed and modified between the 3rd century BC and the 10th century AD at the ancient city of Kuva in Uzbekistan, shedding new light on the history of a key Silk Road settlement.
With more than a month to go before the upcoming Chinese zodiac Year of the Horse, museums across Beijing, China's capital, are rolling out their own creative cultural products themed around the horse, one of the most beloved zodiac signs in Chinese culture.
Homestays are increasingly integrated into China's rural tourism and cultural industries, with Huangshan in east China's Anhui province as a pioneering model. By embedding homestays within village ecosystems rather than operating them as standalone businesses, the city has transformed these accommodations into vibrant sources of rural revitalization.
Bamboo slips served as the primary medium for recording written information from the pre-Qin period (pre-221 B.C.) through the Wei and Jin dynasties (220–420). According to current data, archaeological excavations across China have uncovered more than 300,000 inscribed bamboo slips.
