On the morning of July 9, the opening ceremony of the 11th NishanForumonWorld Civilizationswas held in Qufu, Shandong. More than 560 guests from over 70 countries across five continents attended th...
The "My Music Paradise" program brought European musicians deep into China's largest Miao community this week, where traditional reed-pipe melodies met Western opera under the summer sun.
Upon receiving the news that the Xixia Imperial Tombs have been inscribed on the World Heritage List, archaeological workers at the historical site of Yinxu in central China's Henan Province were...
Liu Geni, 11, lit up with excitement as she learned to sing a line of Kunqu Opera under the guidance of a master during a workshop at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center.
2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the Historic Center of Macao being inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Macao SAR government's tourism office said that with the summer holiday underway...
A total of 13 monks from multiple monasteries are in the process of completing a preliminary examination for the Geshe Lharampa, the highest academic degree in the exoteric teachings of the Gelug...
While speaking of his bond with Chinese culture, 69-year-old British translator David Ferguson hummed a passage from the Peking Opera classic Dingjun Mountain, recalling how Chinese art has profoun...
TheShandong-ChongqingCultural and Tourism Industry Product Promotion Event was held recently at Shandong Museum.
In Chanang county, Shannan city, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, a distinctive form of Tibetan woodcarving bears an unusual name: Shidiao, literally meaning louse carving. It is said th...
A traditional Chinese opera performance was staged on Sunday at the Royal Theater inside the Imperial City of Hue, a former imperial capital in central Vietnam, offering local audiences a glimpse i...
The following is a signed article by Li Decheng, deputy director-general of and a research fellow with China Tibetology Research Center.
The event showcased stage performances including music, dances, and martial arts, as well as exhibitions, mini workshops, games, and a variety of cuisines from the participating countries.
China's earliest known steel acupuncture needles have been discovered in the famed tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in east China's Jiangxi Province, according to the provincial cultural relics and ar...
As part of the 25th Arab Radio and Television Festival, a Chinese audiovisual works presentation was held Tuesday in Yasmine Hammamet, a resort town in northeast Tunisia.
Frank Kouwenhoven, a 69-year-old Dutch scholar, has dedicated over 20 years to studying Hua'er, a folk song popular in northwest China.
The Cultural and Natural Heritage Day event in Jinan and the inaugural Jinan Intangible Cultural Heritage Charm Week kicked off recently in Jinan's Baihuazhou Historical and Cultural Block.
A seminar on the origins and development of Chinese classic Shule music and dance was held at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing on Sunday. Scholars, artists, educators and others ...
The Shanhaiguan Museum of the Great Wall of China on Sunday opened to the public in the city of Qinhuangdao, north China's Hebei Province.
China's intangible cultural heritage workshops are proving a powerful force for rural revitalization, with over 11,000 such workshops preserving traditional crafts, creating jobs and boosting local...
China's online literature readership has swelled to 575 million, underscoring the growing dominance of digital storytelling in the country's cultural landscape.
In the past, discussions about intangible cultural heritage invariably centered around words like "endangered" and "highly difficult." However, a new wave driven by technology and creativity is gra...
The opening ceremony of "China Tourism Year" was held on Monday at the National Museum of Kazakhstan, with around 300 guests from China and Kazakhstan in attendance.
For thousands of years, the traditional tofu-making techniques have been carried on from generation to generation in Bagongshan Township of Shouxian County. This technique in 2014 was included in t...
Not a single air bubble was acceptable. Xiong Songtao's glistening enamel crafts, which employ the Chinese cloisonné technique, a form of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), have attained the prec...
Since the first China-Central Asia Summit in 2023, tourism exchanges between China and Central Asia have grown closer, becoming a key bridge for promoting people-to-people bonds. Today, China and C...
This photo taken on June 12, 2025 shows a carved ivory chess set displayed at the China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea in Qionghai, south China's Hainan Province.
"At first, Bakhitzhan Baikadamov thought Xian Xinghai was just an ordinary performer. Only when he reached the theater did he realize Xian's true talent as a musician," Sabit Kurmanbekov, the Kazak...
Born into an Indonesian family with a martial arts pedigree, Zeela Nebulani began training at the age of six. In May 2024, she traveled to the Daqingshan Tai Chi research base in the city of Rizhao...
Dongtai Hair Embroidery, originating from the folk custom of using human hairs as thread to embroider Buddha in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) of China, has a history of over 1,300 years. The craft, wh...
Visitors to the Lion Grove Garden, one of the classical gardens in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province are now greeted by an unexpected encounter: a digital tour guide who appears to have travele...
Li Yaohua skillfully engraved an auspicious cloud pattern onto a silver bracelet, using an engraving tool in his left hand and a small hammer in his right, in Xinhua village, Caohai town, Heqing co...
For the first time, highlights from the Shanghai Mint Museum's prestigious collection of commemorative coins and medals are being showcased in London.
As a national intangible cultural heritage, the pottery-producing skills of Li ethnic group bear the wisdom and cultural memory of the group. In Heitu Village of Sanya, the establishment of a potte...
With the aroma of oolong tea wafting in the air and melodies drifting from guzheng (a traditional Chinese zither) and piano, the Chinese embassy in Washington was transformed into a stage for cultu...
The vitality of China-Kenya cooperation in culture and tourism was on full display Friday night at a gala event filled with music, dance and acrobatic performances.
Once the heartland of heavy industry and manufacturing in China, the northeastern provinces are often stereotyped as a rust-belt region. However, more local enterprises are now embracing innovati...
In Fenshuiling Town of Luzhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the making of the oil-paper umbrella has been passed down for over 400 years, preserving techniques such as tung oil coating ...
In a dimly lit gallery in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Zhou Jie stood before a life-sized plaster cast of a Pompeii victim, who was encased in volcanic ash nearly 2,000 years a...
A total of 209 pieces (sets) relics are on display during this exhibition, offering a unique opportunity to explore the resonances between the Chinese and Mayan civilizations and to enhance the cul...
Stunned by a futuristic drone performance above the gate tower of an ancient town in Chongzuo, a city in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Nguyen Anh Thu from Vietnam said she now ...
The opening ceremony of the 2025 Kazakhstan "Chinese Silk Road Literature Week" and a thematic forum titled "New Rhythms of the Silk Road: Literature Makes Life Better" were successfully held on Sa...
The Serbian finals of the 2025 "Chinese Bridge" competition concluded on Sunday at the Archives of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, with three winners standing out to represent Serbia at the global finals in...
At midday, Lin Guochun, nearly 60, teaches children the basic movements of Gaojia Opera at an inheritance center in Cendou village, Shijing town, Nan'an, a county-level city in Quanzhou, southeast ...
At midday, Lin Guochun, nearly 60, teaches children the basic movements of Gaojia Opera at an inheritance center in Cendou village, Shijing town, Nan'an, a county-level city in Quanzhou, southeast ...
The "Nihao China" China-Serbia Duanwu International Dragon Boat Festival officially opened Saturday at Ada Ciganlija Lake in Belgrade, bringing together professional and amateur paddlers from acros...
The 24th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Ethiopian college students was held Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, with 14 finalists from universities across the country...
Nigerian guests and their Chinese friends had a refreshing time at the 2025 Tea for Harmony and Yaji Cultural Salon, a cultural event organized to exhibit China's tea art in Nigeria's capital, Abuj...
In a wooden stilt house in Luomian village, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Miao embroidery designer Jiao Hongxiu, dressed in modernized Miao costumes, was instructing an embroiderer to add sil...
The annual "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for foreign students drew strong participation over the weekend, with enthusiastic performances from university, secondary, and primary s...
China's museum sector is growing rapidly, fueled by more museums, better exhibits, new technology and improved services.