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.
For most visitors, the Great Wall is something to walk along once and leave behind, but for Gao Wandong and Chen Jing, it was something they could not stop returning to, until after more than a decade and 100,000 photographs, it demanded a museum of its own.
On December 30, 2025, the AI short drama "Glorious Nishan " passed the online review by the Radio and Television Administration of Shandong Province and was approved for distribution. The drama was guided by the Radio and Television Administration of Shandong Province and Nishan World Centerfor ConfucianStudies, and jointly created and produced by Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies (Secretariatof China Confucius Foundation) and Shandong Digital Culture Group.
On December 26, 2025, the first symposium on the inheritance and development of Confucian medical culture in the new era bymedical colleges in the Yellow River basin was held at Jining Medical College, guided by Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies(Secretariat of China Confucius Foundation) and hosted by Jining Medical College.
On December 29, 2025, the unveiling ceremony of the research base ofNishan World Centerfor ConfucianStudies（NWCCS）at Anshan Normal Universityand the 2025 symposium on “The Inheritance and Evolution of Confucianism in Northeast Asia”were held at Anshan Normal University.
During the Tibetan New Year each year in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Cham dance, an ancient ritual dance that reflects the region's cultural traditions, unfolds across the plateau.
On December 17, a bookdonation ceremony by NishanWorld Center for Confucian Studies and China Confucius Foundation was held at theParty School of Shandong ProvincialCPC Committee(Shandong Academyof Governance). Guo Chengyan, secretary of the CPCCommittee and deputy director of Nishan World Center for Confucian Studies (Secretariat of China Confucius Foundation), vice chairman and secretary-general of China Confucius Foundation, andBai Hao, the vice president of the Party SchoolofShandong Provincial CPCCommittee(Shandong Academy of Governance) and president of Yimeng Cadre College, attended and delivered a speech.
