After a night of heavy snow, Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and its surrounding areas became a pristine white wonderland. Local ski resorts such as the Silk Road Mountain Resort buzzed with activities as snow groomers ...
As ancient Chinese timber-frame buildings gain increasing global attention through diverse platforms, including the internationally popular video game Black Myth: Wukong, a conference dedicated to the conservation and World Heritage nomination of wooden structures from the Tang to the Song ...
Wearing a kind of traditional Chinese robe emerging in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), renowned lyricist Vincent Fang Wenshan, who has been best known for his works often treated as poetry of artistic merit, sat at a teahouse in the ancient ...
Traditional Chinese customs drew more attention from the world after the UNESCO inscribed the Spring Festival, social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional new year, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ...
As the gates open, tourists rushing into the National Museum of China (NMC) in Beijing queue up to take photos with the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Empress Xiaoduan's phoenix crown from the best possible position, resulting in a long line that ...
Now living in Norway, Beijinger "Nuowei Lao Wang" has celebrated the Spring Festival with his Norwegian family and friends for the past two years. They make dumplings, watch the Spring Festival gala, and play mahjong together. His friends have gotten ...
"Hand in hand, regardless of who we are. Heads up high, walking forward. Let the world know we are Chinese." When Andy Lau, a renowned Hong Kong singer and actor, loudly sang the lyrics of the song "Chinese People" that ...
In the last few years of his life, Zhang Fuqing, a farmer from North China's Shanxi Province, dedicated himself to leaving a rich record of his experiences on the walls of his home with a brush. He meticulously documented everything, ...
On a warm Saturday afternoon, the bustling tourist area around Qianmen Street in Beijing – one of the iconic spots along the Central Axis – buzzes with visitors from around the world, all drawn to its vibrant Beijing-style atmosphere. However, ...
"Watching this drama throws me back to my school days when I used to watch many films and dramas from Hong Kong." "I even tried the snacks mentioned in the novel, indulging in the same treats while reading." Such online ...
A new art exhibition featuring hundreds of masterpieces focusing on the essence of traditional Chinese culture and the colorful lives of Chinese people has been launched at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing.
As winter draws near, winter sports start to catch more public attention. Ski culture, once confined to the mountains and ski resorts, is gradually blending into the rhythm of city life.
Editor's Note: From exquisite craftsmanship to traditional Chinese medicine, from solemn rituals to vibrant folk art, intangible cultural heritage weaves the vibrant tapestry of Chinese identity, enriching contemporary Chinese people's lives. In this series, the Global Times culture desk will walk ...
Since the beginning of November, a wave of high-quality Chinese films such as Endless Journey and YOLO have been hitting cinemas across Latin America, coinciding with the rise of Chinese film festivals in the region. These films present a glimpse ...
When renowned Chinese poet Zhao Lihong sat at a bookstore in Santiago, Chile, following the opening of the Santiago International Book Fair 2024 to exchange literary visions with Latin American writers and readers, he noticed several covers of contemporary Chinese ...
The Santiago International Book Fair 2024 is currently being held in Chile with China as the guest of honor. The fair features thousands of publications from around the globe, offering a myriad of cultural activities designed to immerse the public ...
A golden sun and immortal bird ornament, along with a massive bronze mask and altar from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha ruins in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, finally met with pottery and golden artifacts that illustrate the prosperity of the ancient ...
Under the global framework for biodiversity, more wildlife species are increasing in number and enjoying a better space for living and breeding in China with the help of advanced technology and more popular caring, according to the Chinese delegation from ...
Accompanying the start of full operations at the Hangzhou-Wenzhou High-Speed Railway in September, a new copper screen featuring a stunning landscape that harmoniously integrates the scenery along the railway with the natural beauty of Wenzhou attracts visitors at the bustling ...
A street dance event focused on cultural exchanges between youth from both sides of the Taiwan Straits started on Thursday in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, gathering around 150 dancers from a variety of street dance troupes based in different ...
"The story of Hong Kong is undoubtedly a vital part of the narrative of China, and brilliant Hong Kong stories such as the Lion Rock spirit can show the world a more evocative China," said Chung Shukai, the Hong Kong ...
Photo Beijing 2024, featuring nearly 60 exhibitions and over 5,400 works by more than 2,000 international photographers, kicked off in Beijing on Saturday. The event highlights themes such as the Polar Silk Road, cultural heritages in ancient cities like Beijing ...
The 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair may never forget the scene of foreign readers flocking to Chinese author Liu Cixin's signing booth for the iconic The Three-Body Problem. The readers may not have foreseen that six years later, when the book ...
Free of complex storylines, exaggerated romances, melodramatic plot twists and revenge stories based on absurd experiences, a fresh breeze has blown into Chinese micro-drama industry, bringing diverse and refined themes based on historical figures and cultural heritage. The trend can ...
Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, formally put forward in October 2023, encompasses several key aspects, including strengthening the Party's leadership over public communication and culture and promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's fine traditional culture.
"The trial excavation of the Yangtze River Estuary No.2 ancient shipwreck has begun!" As a command was given at a dock of the former Shanghai Shipyard site along the Yangpu waterfront, a large black glass archaeological preservation chamber with steel ...
Following the return of seven giant pandas, including Fu Bao, the first naturally bred panda born in South Korea, the news has hit that some giant pandas are set to return to China from zoos in countries like the US ...
"I have noticed that the new generation of Chinese film directors are growing stronger with increasingly diverse creation styles. More talents who can give consideration to both artistic expression and commercial factors have come to the forefront," Gao Peng, an ...
A series of the latest archaeological discoveries in North China related to the Neolithic Hongshan culture, renowned for its exquisite jade artifacts, have captivated the public's attention.
"The work of aiding Xinjiang and Xizang serves as a crucial means to enhance interactions, exchanges and integration among various Chinese ethnic groups, thereby reinforcing the development of a community with a shared future and building a shared spiritual home ...
Exquisite bronze bobweights symbolizing the unification of weights and measures during the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), vivid Terracotta Warriors in different poses, and intricately designed stone armor... A total of 230 artifacts are on display at an exhibition that kicked ...
In one of the northern exhibition halls of the National Museum of China, a sculpture of a gargoyle, which was originally designed as a foremost part of the rainwater drainage system of Paris' famed Notre Dame cathedral, sits silently among ...
Lu Siqing, a world-class violinist dubbed as the “Paganini of the East,” has captivated audiences globally with his interpretation of the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto, hailed as one of the most distinguished versions of the classic. At a young age, ...
Gao Gao the giant panda is 32 years old, equivalent to 112 years old in human age. Although he is in the sunset years of his life with some unavoidable age-related health issues such as abraded teeth, Gao Gao still ...
China leads the 2024 Paris Summer Paralympics medal table with 20 gold medals and 42 total medals as of Sunday (local time). Since the end of the second day of competition, Chinese athletes have set six new world records.
A number of high-quality Chinese TV series have been rolled out by younger directors who have made a name for themselves in recent years with creative production ideas. One such work, Escape from the Trilateral Slopes, a newly released thriller ...
"If a kind of philosophy or a piece of literature can be passed down and inspire generations for thousands of years, this philosophy must contain universal value that can nourish people worldwide, just like Chinese philosophies of Taoism, Confucianism and ...
"Could the Palace Museum stay open until 9 pm?" "I couldn't book any tickets for the National Museum of China during this visit to Beijing. Can the museum extend its opening hours to night?" With the growing enthusiasm among Chinese ...
Nüshu literally means "women's writing" in Chinese, and just as its name implies, the writing system including about 500 frequently used characters has been seen as the world's only script designed and used exclusively by women. After its birth in ...
Breaking, a style of street dance, will soon make its debut at Paris Olympics on Friday, and Chinese breaking team that consists of young B-boys and B-girls will strive for medals by their dancing techniques and unique "weapon" - moves ...
A national seminar, Better Conservation and Development of Ancient Architecture and Rural Relics, was recently held in North China's Shanxi Province, which boasts abundant rare antiquated buildings. At the seminar, experts as well as government authorities noted that China's conservation ...
Surrounded by Paleolithic and Neolithic ruins, a crowd of locals in Tielu Village sit in the shade of the earthy-yellow wall of a decades-old dwelling and enjoy their after-lunch leisure time. Behind them, a banner sporting a promotional slogan for ...
After around seven years of preparation, China's Badain Jaran Desert - Towers of Sand and Lakes has finally been included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Another addition to the list is the Mi-gratory Bird Sanctuaries along the coast of the ...
When they decided to turn to producing a minute-by-minute mini-series at the end of 2022, the group of Chinese youth who just graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) did not look to have a foothold in Hollywood soon in ...
Kianoosh Khan Mohammadi, an Iranian poet, reads his latest poem written after a tour at a poet sharing session held at the foot of Mutianyu Great Wall, a well-preserved section of the Great Wall of China, built in 1368.
Films, art exhibitions, TV shows, pop stars and giant pandas... more diverse envoys of cultural exchange between China and South Korea have been bridging people-to-people gaps and strengthening ties between younger generations in the two countries, step by step.
A cautionary saying has been around in China for centuries: "Change brings prosperity while stagnation leads to decline."
In a post uploaded on the Moment of his WeChat account in January 2024, Michael Szonyi, a professor of Chinese history and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, was bending down in front of ...
"I think having the chance to come to Beijing and experience what China's really like has been the cherry on the cake." "It might be a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience for me."
Before visiting Beichuan county, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, members of the young exchange group from the island of Taiwan had already heard about the story of Great Yu who controlled the flood, which is traditionally dated to about 2,300-2,200 BC. ...
The new Chinese-style animated film Into the Mortal World is set to debut in cinemas on Friday. Amid the rising popularity of China Chic, or Chinese centric aesthetics, among today's youth, the film revolving around the traditional Chinese culture and ...
With the support of leading generative AI models, most of the cultural relics from the Sanxingdui Ruins, which have been extolled multiple times at museums, appear in droves in a short sci-fi drama completely made by AI generative technology, building ...
"Over 80 years ago, Chinese musician Xian Xinghai and Kazakh composer Bakhytzhan Baikadamov met and came to know each other in Almaty. They soon became bosom friends and devoted brothers despite their different nationalities," Chinese President Xi Jinping remarked in ...
Chinese researchers have discovered reefs dating back to nearly 390 million year in Ngari, Southwest China's Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region during a scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. The discovery is a first of its kind in the region.
"The new media platforms in the new era give me the opportunity to bring Xinjiang people's humor to audiences around the country and even the world through our short videos," Enzat Tohti, a young entrepreneur from the Uygur ethnic group ...
More than 9,000 years ago, a group of people lived in a prehistoric settlement located what is today a village in Wu-yang county, Central China's Henan Province. These people were not only hunters, fishermen and artisans, but also excellent musicians ...
Although the Spring Festival has come to an end, the joy of the Chinese New Year is still there, as the Tibetan New Year – another grand festival has just arrived and is being celebrated by several ethnic groups around ...
Discoveries made during the latest excavation of Pit No.1 at the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have allowed Chinese archaeologists to gain more insight into the process that was used to make ...
New discoveries made at five archaeological sites, including large ruins from the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC) and the remains of capital cities established by ethnic minority groups, were announced by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration at a press conference on Wednesday. ...
China and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Tuesday about promoting exchanges and cooperation in the field of cultural heritage after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which has been seen as one of ...
The latest archaeological discoveries in North China's Shanxi Province were announced on Monday. The discoveries, which include several ruins belonging to the Neolithic Yangshao Culture, are seen as valuable materials for research into the origin and evolution of Chinese civilization.
Chinese archaeologists have recently discovered eight tombs dating back to the Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-256BC) at a ruins site in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, a region rich in cultural relics marking the evolution of Chinese civilization. The relics unearthed from the ...
During the weekend, Chinese tennis player Wu Yibing, esports gamer Li Oliveira Peinan and short track speed skater Lin Xiaojun claimed three major wins for China. Wu and Li's victories were new records in Chinese sports history.
Several ancient sites in Turkey and Syria, including a Roman-era castle in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, were badly damaged by the fatal earthquakes on Monday that have killed more than 5,000 people. China has been trying to develop diverse ...
Chinese archaeologists recently published the results of a series of new excavations related to the Hongshan Culture, a Neolithic culture originating in Northeast China known for its carved jade. The excavations have revealed a large settlement as well as hundreds ...
As the winter sun rises above the city of Jincheng, the pavilion called Sanhua (lit: scattered blossoms) is bathed in shining rays of light, looking as if it is trying to contend with the sun. Portrayed in a poem by ...
Meng Yu, a Beijing resident working in the internet industry, is searching for a place to have some fun during the weekend, when she sees an ad for some skiing and skating resorts around her home. Recalling that several friends ...
With the 2023 Lantern Festival coming on Sunday, diverse celebrations are being prepared around the world for the traditional carnival. Marking the first full moon of the year according to the Chinese calendar, the festival is a time when Chinese ...
With the 2023 Lantern Festival coming on Sunday, diverse celebrations are being prepared around the world for the traditional carnival. Marking the first full moon of the year according to the Chinese calendar, the festival is a time when Chinese ...
TV series The Knockout, which focuses on crackdowns on gang crimes and corruption, has become popular with Chinese audiences, sparking a lot of discussion on social media and boosting sales of the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War.
Twenty ancient coins from China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) were unearthed at a temple on South Korea's Jeju Island on Thursday. The discovery is evidence of the cultural exchanges and trade that have existed between China and the Korean Peninsula ...
Twenty ancient coins from China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) were unearthed at a temple on Jeju Island on Thursday, which can be seen as proof of cultural exchanges and trade between China and South Korea since ancient times.
The plan of conservation and management of Beijing Central Axis was published and started being carried out on Saturday: the plan divides the protection area of the Central Axis into an heritage area and a buffer zone and defines the ...
After dinner on the fourth day of the 2023 Spring Festival holidays, Wuhan resident Wan Fang went to a local cinema with her family to see Chinese director Zhang Yimou's newly released movie Full River Red. Since they were watching ...
The Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum on Thursday published the latest significant discoveries found in the No.1 pit of the mausoleum during the third excavation, including rules for the formations of Terracotta Warriors army, ruins in the tunnel adjacent to ...
It must be the bravest and romantic story in Chinese mythology Classic of Mountains and Seas that the main character giant Kuafu, who indefatigably chased the sun, is not only named on China's first satellite specially designed to carry out ...
An archeologist cleans the last layer of sediment with a brush and gingerly removes the fossil of a human skull out of the earth with both hands. The fossil, around 1 million years old, will soon be sent to an ...
Sci-fi web novels saw an uptick in quality in 2022 and the online literature industry has been booming over the past few years, according to a Tuesday report about the Chinese online literature industry in 2022 from China Literature, a ...
Before the New Year's Day of 2023 arrived, 15 giant panda cubs were born in 2022 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, and visitors were delighted to see the vitality of the cubs.
As the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, approaches, the images of rabbits are appearing everywhere. In Chinese culture, the rabbit is not only a symbol of good luck, but also connected to longevity and fertility. Associated with the moon, ...
As we are about to bid farewell to the year 2022, a year where we lived through happiness and accomplishments although life was accompanied by a pandemic, the Global Times staff of life and culture will share our observations on ...
A press conference for "2023 Happy Chinese New Year," a series of cultural events, was held in Beijing on Monday, during which time organizers introduced the diverse activities that will be held both online and offline around the world to ...
Editor's Note: As we are about to bid farewell to the year 2022, a year where we lived through happiness and accomplishments although life was accompanied by a pandemic, the Global Times staff of life and culture will share our observations ...
From the mysterious ancient Shu Culture that emerged from the Sanxingdui Ruins to a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) shipwreck salvaged from a riverbed where it had been laying for more than a century and a half... various discoveries were made by ...
Starting from Sanfang Qixiang (lit: Three Lanes and Seven Alleys), a historic and cultural area in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province, Shan Jixiang, former curator of the Palace Museum and now head of the China Cultural Relics Academy, set out ...
At the site of a Neolithic settlement in East China's Anhui Province that dates to 5,800 to 5,300 years ago, Chinese archaeologists are busy cleaning numerous cultural relics, mainly a variety of jade wares, that have been excavated from under ...
A large-size vessel sailing down a river is cut into pieces by numerous nanometer threads tied to both sides of the narrowest part of the Panama Canal's Gaillard waterway. This is the last step of "Operation Guzheng," named after a ...
After winning the hearts of millions of critics and casual viewers in China, a drama inspired by a real-life poverty alleviation project, Minning Town, began airing in Egypt on Monday with Arabic dubbing. The drama is expected to earn even ...
In late November, the Beijing Municipal Government published a list of bookstores in the capital that will get subsidies from the government. The measure has received a warm welcome, providing a glimmer of hope to physical bookstore owners like Hong ...
Driving from Ya'an in Southwest China's Sichuan Province along the Yaxi Expressway, you will reach the southern gate of the Chinese Giant Panda National Park, a long 34-kilometer stretch of road in Yingjing county with bamboo on both sides.
What I talk about when I talk about reading? For Wu Yanping, managing partner of One Way Space, a niche yet popular bookstore brand in China, this is a question to which he can provide countless answers.
The second season of China's first variety show about Chinese teenagers' enthusiasm for football,U-Ball, will be launched on TV and online streaming platforms from Tuesday, amid the ongoing 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Some Chinese movie lovers who are fond of South Korean director Hong Sang-soo were pleasantly surprised earlier in November to learn that his film Hotel by the River was now streaming on Chinese video platforms.
Hollywood blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water, the sequel to the 2009 hit Avatar, is set to hit the big screen in the Chinese mainland on December 16, the same day as in North America. The news of the release ...
On Monday, as a shipwreck was slowly pulled out of the water from the bottom of a riverbed where it had been laying for more than a century and a half, Chinese archaeology witnessed a new breakthrough in the field ...
More historical secrets from the Wudang Mountains, home to a famous complex of Taoist architecture handed down from one dynasty to another, have been uncovered by Chinese archeologists, who have excavated more than 1,000 cultural relics at the site.
What is the view from the "pinnacle of science" created by China? Amid once-in-a-century global changes, what could the effect of opening up an exclusive event in science be?
Encouraging cultural organizations in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) such as the local broadcaster TVB, HKSAR Chief Executive John Lee aims to "promote Hong Kong's popular culture outside of Hong Kong," as he noted in the Chief Executive's ...
Lingnan culture, also known as Cantonese culture, is a significant constituent part of Chinese civilization. Encompassing the provinces of Guangdong and Hainan and South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, this culture has enriched various aspects of Chinese civilization with its ...
Recently, Jia Yongting, a young woman living in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, once again received a box full of guava from East China's Shandong Province - for the fifth year in a row.
Activities aimed at encouraging the public to join in understanding and promoting history and culture along the Beijing Central Axis have been recently held one after another, attracting hundreds of young students, including some from other countries, to experience the ...
Last Sunday, themed "Science Forward: Create a Bright Future," the 5th World Laureates Forum kicked off in Shanghai, hosting worldwide professionals including 60 decorated scientists and 27 Nobel Prize winners, in discussion of a string of topics from sustainable development ...
The 2022 Chinese Visual Ethnographic Photo Biennale, which aims to collect and preserve the unique history, culture and cherished memories of China's various ethnic groups, opened in Beijing on Tuesday.
In 2088, humans step foot on Mars, expanding humanity's horizons and opening up a new field of existence. Meanwhile, the rest of humanity continues living on Earth hundreds of millions of kilometers away, posing a nostalgic touchstone for the people ...
Overcoming stereotypes about Chinese products, adapting to totally different cultures, resisting unreasonable punishment and working hard on international projects, more Chinese writers are focusing on the stories of Chinese companies' businesses overseas, creating diverse works of fiction based on real ...
Using an entrance card decorated with the seal script, an ancient style of writing Chinese characters, intern Li Wei enters the base of a R&D company. Walking through the building, she is surrounded by various products that combine high-technology and ...
Why is the oracle bone script seen as China's earliest writing system? What events was this script used to record? The Global Times talked to various scholars and archaeologists to find the answers to these questions and take readers into ...
An ancient capital site with the longest, largest and most frequent archaeological excavations in China, the Yinxu Ruins are not only listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but also rank first among China's 100 Major Archaeological Discoveries in the ...
Jiang Danni from East China's Zhejiang Province recalled her experience of volunteering in an education project in schools in Lebanon and countries in Africa with the Global Times, noting that she is willing to return and spend time with her ...
The final round of selection of winning photographs focusing on the Beijing Central Axis that have been collected from the public started on Wednesday in Beijing. It is part of the 2022 Competition for the Transmission and Promotion of the ...
"The traditional architecture of the Tibetan ethnic group contains a lot of ecological wisdom. No matter if it is the designs or the materials used, the basic principle is keeping interference with the surrounding environment to a minimum," Tashi Phunstok, ...
With the increase in the number of high-quality films produced by Chinese studios over the past decade, more Chinese audiences have been heading to the cinema, helping set new box-office records.
Chinese people believe that letters are as valuable as gold. For thousands of years, letters, across mountains and oceans, have been delivering the writers' sentiments, friendship, and expectations.
Entering 2020, senior high school students throughout China were tensely preparing for the most significant examination in their life, the college entrance exams, or gaokao, when disaster suddenly struck the country with the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
Shelf by shelf, scroll by scroll, and page by page, Chinese researchers have archived more than 12 million folios of 3,499 ancient books and documents dating back to the 7th century at the Potala Palace in the Xizang Autonomous Region.
The fifth stage of the "national research program dedicated to tracing the origin of Chinese civilization" has made progress, China's National Cultural Heritage Administration announced on Wednesday at a press conference introducing new archaeological discoveries such as a 1 million ...
China and Syria signed a joint agreement at the National Library of China in Beijing on Monday that will see the two countries increase cooperation in cultural fields such as archaeological research and exhibitions with the end goal of protecting ...
The weeklong National Day holidays are one of three golden periods for releasing new movies. With the third 2022 golden period less than a week away, Chinese moviegoers are already talking online about which movies they plan to see and ...
In 1900, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin accidentally discovered the remains of an ancient walled city that was once the capital of the Loulan Kingdom buried under the desert in what is today Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. His discovery ...
A gold "funeral mask" dating back to more than 3,000 years ago was excavated from the tomb of an ancient noble in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan Province, officials with China's National Cultural Heritage Administration announced at a recent ...
In the last decade, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China's archaeological research undertaking has developed by leaps and bounds. The country attaches great importance to archaeological research work and the tracing the origins ...
For more than 1,000 years, the murals and statues within the Mogao Caves have represented some of the best of Buddhist art in China. However, the centuries have not been kind, as the elements have taken their toll on some ...
As three performers dressed in traditional Chinese opera costumes perform a scene from Liyuan Opera, an 800-year-old branch of Chinese Opera, the sound of modern pop music instruments such as the guitar, drums and synthesizer suddenly merge with the ancient ...
Housing one of the world's largest collections of Buddhist art, the Mogao Caves are one of the most popular sites that people from around the world hope to visit. The splendid murals, sculptures and buildings in the caves from more ...
In the past four decades since the Japanese dramas were introduced to China, millions of Chinese viewers across generations have watched the shows, in some cases growing up and changing as these shows have evolved. For many fans, these series ...
Editor's Note: Every year around the end of August and the beginning of September, the Shoton Festival, one of the most important traditional festivals of the Tibetan ethnic group, is held in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. During the seven-day ...
Day and night, from torrid and moist rainforests to the crowded streets of frontier towns, Chinese anti-drug police constantly work to track and take down drug dealers despite the risk to their own lives.
In this installment, a stand-up comedian based in Beijing talks about how his talk show has enjoyed remarkable success in the last decade across China, reflecting the growing prosperity of China's cultural industries in the same period.
"Five people and nine provinces over two months. From the north of the country to the south, from freezing temperatures a few degrees below zero to regions over 30 C where the fierce sun hangs high in the sky, up ...
Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors of today's Chinese to create diverse decorative patterns ...
A total of 1,450 movies from all around the world applied to compete in the film festival. Of them, 16 works made them into the final round. The 82-minute-long The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic from ...
The curtains came down on the eighth Chinese-Korean Share Your Dream Short Film Festival, jointly held by Chinese and South Korean cultural institutes, on Friday, with five works bagging major awards after a three-month submission and selection process. The success ...
A green tent pitched on red earth is beset by a sudden rainstorm. While rain water quickly accumulates and forms several pockets of water on the tent, a line of children within the tent place a foot on a bamboo ...
When news of a follow-up to the hit 2019 Chinese TV drama Growing Pain, about campus life and family relationships, hit social media a few months ago, it caused a huge amount of excitement on social media, as the high ...
Publications and cultural articles preserve and transmit traditional Chinese culture, symbolizing and testifying to the splendor of Chinese civilization since its ancient beginnings. As one of the first visitors, the Global Times on Thursday visited the Beijing headquarters of the ...
News of a follow up to the hit 2019 Chinese TV drama Growing Pain about campus life and family relationships caused a huge amount of excitement on social media, as the high quality of the first season had drawn loyal ...
With screenings running from August 12 to 21, the Beijing International Film Festival started ticket sales for screenings at noon on Wednesday. The event generated a huge rush as Chinese movie fans scrambled to lock in tickets before they sold ...
Lines of Terracotta Warriors have silently stood at attention in the dimly lit pits near the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), for more than 2,000 years, but now they are entering the ...
The application for the Beijing Central Axis, the core area of China's capital city, has taken one more step ahead to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Central Axis will be part of China's 2024 application project, the government ...
The application process for the Beijing Central Axis, orthe core area of the historical city, to become a World Heritage Site has further advanced: the central axis will be part of China's 2024 application project, as announced by authorities on ...
China's 900-year-old wood arch bridge known as the Wan'an bridge built in the Song Dynasty (960-1127) in Pingnan county, East China's Fujian Province, has been marred by fire on Saturday night, leading to the collapse of the longest wood arch ...
In the past decade or so, short videos on rural life have recorded the big leap and governmental efforts in the development of China's countryside.
To encourage more talented Chinese and foreign filmmakers to join telling China's stories, a project to sponsor filmmakers and collect brilliant documentaries about China's stories in the new era, the Image Possibilities Coproduction Plan, was launched in Beijing on Tuesday.
"The horse-face skirt holds a very unique position in China's traditional clothing culture. Sporting a dynamic design, this skirt is widely preferred by fans of traditional clothing, who have continued to innovate and develop it," Daben, a Chinese vlogger who ...
China, South Korea and Japan are close not only geographically, but also culturally, with economic ties dating back more than 1,000 years ago. A new exhibition at Beijing's National Museum of China is tapping into this shared heritage by displaying ...
"Our country never forgets any of its people or regions. No matter how remote, they have received support from the motherland to alleviate poverty," filmmaker Lin Tao told the Global Times, explaining why his new film focuses on the Taxkorgan ...
A group of people wearing blue waistcoats scatter around the hillside bending down to pick up garbage such as discarded plastic bottles left by tourists. Suddenly a Golden Retriever dog runs into the crowd holding a plastic bottle in ...
Moving across the stage, a young dancer rhythmically taps a meter-long bamboo pole adorned with strings of copper coins against her body in time with the music. With each strike a jingling sound emanates from the coins, blending with the ...
As a group of dancers in turquoise dresses and towering hair buns as black as ink move their bodies to a traditional Chinese melody, they appear as if they have just stepped out of a traditional Chinese landscape painting.
Inspired by the silver beads on the traditional ornaments made by China's Yi ethnic minority, a pair of "small lantern" ear drop earrings are made from finely hollowed silver beads with soft arcs that weigh only 11.7 grams.
Editor's Note: In a letter replying to senior experts at the National Museum of China (NMC) on Friday, the institution's 110th anniversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed that cultural relics need to be better utilized to preserve the accomplishments of Chinese ...
Chinese historical web drama Delicacies Destiny has stirred controversy over “plagiarizing” South Korean culture among South Korean netizens, but Chinese experts said that the cultural exchanges between China and South Korea started from ancient times and should be respected and ...
Chinese music fans are excited after a series of music festivals were announced. They will be held around the country as the COVID-19 epidemic has been brought under control in China.
"We aim to bring positivity and make audiences laugh as the recent COVID-19 outbreak is causing many people anxiety," Shi Hui, producer of the variety show The Detectives' Adventures, said, explaining the original intention behind the show.
After Hong Kong returned to the motherland in 1997, such cultural influences changed from one way into two ways. People from both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, born in the 1990s and the 2000s, feel such changes and fusion ...
The natural patterns on a piece of birch bark are gradually transformed into a landscape painting containing tall trees, black dirt and a river. The finished scene is very similar to the local scenery in the hometown of Tao Dandan, ...
Young people from China's various ethnic minority groups, especially Gen Z, are making themselves heard on social media. They not only display breathtaking ethnic art, local delicacies and exquisite ethnic clothing, but also presenting the best from their hearts like ...
"The surgical treatment of heart failure in China has entered the era of the artificial heart," Hu Shengshou, director of the Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, one of the best hospitals specializing in cardiovascular diseases and a leading expert in cardiovascular ...
During his visit to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Li Qun, viceminister of culture and tourism and head of China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA), met with HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam. During the meeting, Li noted that ...
A CGI figure of a dancer wearing traditional Chinese hair accessories and clothing is helping popularize Buddhist art by inheriting dance moves that originated thousands of years ago. The little figure was inspired by the Flying Apsaras (female water spirits ...
"In life it is often rough and it is hard not to have any worries. Given that we are on the same boat, we can all help each other beneath the Lion Rock and leave our differences behind."
Visitors to a Bed and Breakfast (B&B) in Donghu district of Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province find it is not only a place for accommodation and rest, but also a platform to experience diverse intangible cultural heritage. This is all ...
Nearly 13,000 cultural relics have been unearthed from six pits of the Sanxingdui Ruins site, including many wares and statues never seen before, and they help present a more complete and abundant view of the culture of the ancient Shu ...
Another Chinese animation series called The Creature Cases jointly produced by Chinese and British animation studios was released on Thursday, another example of the expanding international influence of the Chinese animation industry.
Opening the web page for the animated works produced over the decades by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, it is easy to find many classic cartoon characters that are familiar to Chinese people across generations such as the Monkey King, ...
A woman wearing Song Dynasty (960-1279) clothing stands on a raft as she uses a long bamboo pole to row along the river of an ancient watertown.
As a child, Liu Shuai often sat in front of the TV after school excitedly waiting to watch cartoons from Japan such as Captain Tsubasa and Dragon Ball. Now he has become a producer of Chinese animated works. Recently, he ...
As the chief expert of a national research program dedicated to tracing the origin of Chinese civilization, Wang Wei told the Global Times that the program has achieved fruitful results over the past 20 years. However, he noted that some ...
"From loving our own family to loving the bigger family that is our motherland, the character grows up in the TV series and comes to understand the concept that where there is a country, there can be a home," actress ...
"I've been obsessed with my mom's approval my whole life. I couldn't risk losing it." "Honoring your parents sounds great, but if you take it too far, you might forget to honor yourself." "Wait? Wait? No time to wait today. ...
Following the plagiarism scandal of Audi's advertisement, chief directors and producers of a hit Chinese dance show called Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting accused another show airing on Zhejiang TV Station of plagiarism, sparking a discussion ...
Do you remember in 2021 when a herd of wild Asian elephants got lost during migration and tugged at heartstrings around the world? They have since returned to their home in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, and are now enjoying ...
“My name is Feng Xiaohua and I'm 43 years old. I am one of the ordinary rural women living in Xiping village in Yuzhong, Northwest China's Gansu Province. I have been running a store for 17 years, and through managing ...
As of 2021, China had 6,183 registered museums. With International Museum Day falling on Wednesday in 2022 and its theme "The Power of Museums," various museums in China are scrambling to hold activities to display the potential of these institutions. ...
International Museum Day falls on Wednesday in 2022. As an annual event, various museums around the world hold special activities to celebrate the day. In this series, the Global Times talks with museology scholars about this round's theme "the Power ...
Lines about musical instruments and traditional music found among ancient texts are not just gathering dust in the corner that is history, rather they are being kept alive today through the endeavors of young Chinese.
Visitors to the Yangguan Museum in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu Province, over the recent May Day holiday had the opportunity to see the first restored Mingguang armor from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The 1.86-meter-tall suit of armor gave visitors a ...
Visitors to the Yangguan Museum in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu Province during the May Day holidays had opportunity to see the first restored Chinese "Mingguang" armor of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The piece that can suit an adult man with ...
The recent hit Chinese historical drama, Who Rules the World, has sparked controversy on social media after a recent episode featured a scene in which a galloping horse falls roughly headfirst into the ground, leaving viewers wondering if the animal ...
After 10 months of planning and editing, the Chinese and English bilingual book Xiqu Beijing (Beijing Opera) has been officially published. It introduces the charm of five kinds of opera in Beijing and will help overseas fans to appreciate opera ...
A group of designers of cultural and creative products from different cities around China, whose average age is under 28 years old, are discussing online about creative ideas on how to turn cultural relics of the Sanxingdui ruins such as ...
All animals at the zoo located in Enshi, Central China's Hubei Province have nicknames, like Guai Guai, Qiu Qiu and Shan Shan, which were given by 82-year-old Luo Yingjiu, a Chinese veteran who wears all manner of hats at the ...
Serenading his daughter Emily in front of a camera with a guitar, Abao and Emily sing a renowned Chinese ancient poem song, whose music was composed by him. The song's lyrics are familiar to most Chinese people, as they are ...
Filming will soon begin for a new Chinese TV series about the Battle of Triangle Hill in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), and the show will start airing in 2023 to commemorate the 70th anniversary ...
Two young women wearing colorful ruqun, a type of traditional clothing of China's Han ethnic group, and two Chinese-style buns stand with their backs to the camera as they face the sea. After hearing someone say "turn round," they turn ...
A group of young people from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have come together to produce a positive comedy programs exclusively belonging to the region. Following their first viral hit, the online short-video series Anar Pishti, they are now taking ...
Do you like the saber-toothed predator that fought tooth and nail to protect the young of prehistoric humans in animated movie The Ice Age? New Chinese research suggests that the species may actually have been an ape hunter.
Warner Brothers published a statement Tuesday admitting that six seconds of dialogue confirming a same-sex relationship between two main characters had been removed from the Chinese mainland version of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The statement, however, defended the ...
When Chinese moviegoers watch the newly released Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore on Friday, they will see phoenix and qilin, familiar mythological creatures which many have known in childhood, appearing lively on the screen.
Chinese soccer star Wu Lei has been under the spotlight in Chinese social media platforms since Sunday after he bagged a last-gasp goal in La Liga, driving Espanyol to a hard-fought 1-0 win over Celta Vigo and reviving their hopes ...
"The purpose of my job is not to convince people to not fear death, in fact it is just the opposite : to face this fear that drives us to cherish the present time we have with our loved ones ...
If you asked young Chinese today what their dream job is, they may answer with a number of new occupations you have probably never heard of before, such as scriptwriter for interactive murder mystery experiences, virtual artist, shopping assistant or ...
Giant bronze masks, bronze standing statues, golden masks and even articles of silk… an increasing number of stunning cultural relics from the mysterious ancient Shu civilization have been excavated from the Sanxingdui Ruins, to the point that it has become ...
A dozen years after Chinese director Teng Huatao completed his hit show Dwelling Narrowness about urban Chinese's insistence on owning an apartment, his camera is taking aim at housing in big cities again to show the importance of housing in ...
The China Federation of Literary and Art Circles published a resolution on professional ethics for China's literary and art industry on Tuesday, emphasizing the need to avoid misconduct like tax evasion, gambling and using drugs, to build a healthy entertainment ...
Upon entering the room, you are greeted by a 2.62-meter-tall standing bronze figure excavated from the Sanxingdui Ruins. To its left, a 1,000-year-old stone Buddha statue from the Yungang Grottoes sits smiling at you. After appreciating these masterpieces from ancient ...
"Chinese musicals have been growing fast in recent years," musical industry insiders noted.
Part of an ancient temple with a history of more than 1,000 years located in Wuyishan, East China's Fujian Province, caught fire on Friday. The planning of the restoration work was arranged by the local authority on the same day.
Stories about the Xizang Autonomous Region are continuing to be told by Chinese director Pema Tseden through his beautiful cinematography.
Six new films that have started delighting Chinese audiences since Friday, including Warner Bros Pictures' The Batman and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, were included in the list of copyright protection published by the National Copyright Administration of China.
