During rehearsal, some moments in time seem to bend. A phrase of song is repeated once, then again — never quite the same, yet never entirely different. A gesture shifts by a few centimeters, and suddenly the emotional logic of a scene transforms.
Dragon boat-themed events.
Step into the temporary exhibition hall on B1 of the Shanghai Natural History Museum, and a field of all-black metal flowers appears to bloom in silence on one side of the gallery. Hand-cut from metal sheets, they precisely replicate the forms of eight flowers...
An aerial drone photo taken on June 3, 2026 shows water being pumped into the Madao hub on the Pinglu Canal in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
A woman takes photos of sweets at a cafe of the giant panda origin camp in Dengchigou Village of Baoxing County of Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 2, 2026. The giant panda origin camp, which is composed of three zones offering cultural exp...
Archaeologists have recovered large quantities of blue-and-white Chinese porcelain, along with chandelier fragments, goblets, textiles and grain, from about 600 meters beneath the waters of the Skagerrak Strait.
Wu Jing (C), a municipal-level inheritor of "Hezhen Yimakan storytelling," teaches students to perform this art at a primary school in Tongjiang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, June 2, 2026.
A drone photo taken on June 1, 2026 shows agricultural machines harvesting wheat in Huguan Village of Xinghua City, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Four-year-old Maya Ivanou moved to China with her parents in 2023. The family settled in Dongting Town, home to the Yangtze River Delta International Equestrian Center. Maya's mother, Aleksandra Timofeeva, better known as Sasha, is an equestrian from Russia an...
In the pale light of dawn, a solitary figure stands in a courtyard in Chenjiagou village of Wenxian county, Henan province. With her legs bent and arms encircling the air, Svetlana Kobiakova, 59, from Russia's Yakutsk, holds a zhanzhuang (standing meditation) ...
British POW descendants visited Zhoushan to honor fishermen who rescued hundreds of them in WWII, cherishing the lasting China-UK friendship.
Luo is one of the oldest silk fabrics in China — a living fossil of silk civilization.
cultural tourism, and by extending the consumption chain, the city can break free from the limitations of event cycles, stimulate sustained sports consumption, and reshape urban lifestyles.
In Journey to the West, the Monkey King is named Bimawen, a celestial post for horse care. Its pronunciation resembles the Chinese phrase for "warding off horse plague". Though this title is played for laughs in the tale, it comes from an old folk belief: rais...
The concepts of wuxia and jianghu can be difficult for the uninitiated to grasp, but they have carried some of the deepest ideals in Chinese culture for centuries.