The theaters in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are bustling with crowds of people who have come from all over the country to attend the 6th China Xinjiang International Dance Festival.
The Nihewan Site is applying to be included in the tentative list of China's World Cultural Heritage Sites by the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Friends and family grieving, a memorial service was set to be held on Monday evening at a funeral parlor in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) with the official funeral to be held on Tuesday.
As the drum beats, the cave door opens, and golden light shines through, gradually revealing the splendid scene of the ancient Dunhuang "musical" banquet. When the audience steps into a large-scale simulated Dunhuang cave, they will see the "Heavenly Musical Scripture" on the murals coming to life on the walls.
The new Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan province, began trial operations on Thursday.
After the wedding ceremony, guests sat around and listened to an old man sing. He sang throughout the night until the morning arrived. His listeners had one bowl of butter tea after another, and none of them looked sleepy.
At an e-commerce industrial park in Daiji town of Caoxian county, Shandong province on Tuesday, a girl was using a livestreaming platform to promote hanfu— traditional Chinese clothing.
A Buddhist temple that is home to a national representative Buddha in Shandan, Northwest China's Gansu Province, caught on fire Monday morning. No one was injured in the fire, but the wooden outbuilding of the temple was completely burnt down.
Four dinosaur egg fossils were uncovered in the Heyuan Basin for the first time recently in Heyuan, a city known for its extensive collection of dinosaur egg fossils in South China's Guangdong Province.
The notice also says, during visits, misconduct such as loud noise, chasing others, climbing, lying on the floor, littering, touching or damaging the exhibits are not allowed.
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Thousands of book lovers queued up on Wednesday and filed into the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre as the 33rd Hong Kong Book Fair kicked off.
A fossilized human parietal bone was discovered in Location 15 at the Zhoukoudian site in Beijing, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Monday.
Among scattered mammal fossils, a piece of human parietal or more commonly known as the skull bone was discovered from the Zhoukoudian Site, a UNESCO listed cultural heritage site on the southwestern outskirts of Beijing.
China's summer box office has surged to nearly 9 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) as of Monday, surpassing the earnings from the same period in 2019 and setting a new record.
China successfully identified a fragment of a skull that belongs to an ancient human being who lived about 200,000 years ago.
China's National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) unveiled a catalog of 1,658 significant ancient stone inscriptions and carvings on Friday with the aim of bolstering the preservation and management of these valuable relics.
A fragmented stone stele with 538 years of history was recently discovered in Huanghua city in Cangzhou, North China's Hebei Province.
European writer Milan Kundera dies at 94, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday.
There is now "one more star in the sky", actor Jackie Chan wrote in a touching tribute to CoCo Lee as shocked family members, friends and fans tried to come to terms with the reality that the music icon was gone too soon.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), a noted cultural landmark in Hong Kong that is the counterpart to the Palace Museum in Beijing, celebrated its one-year anniversary on Monday.
Coco Lee, a popular singer and the first Chinese American to perform at the Oscars, died on Wednesday by suicide. She was 48 years old.
An exhibition titled “The Grand Gathering of the Century: Zodiac Heads from the Yuanmingyuan and Important Treasures” will be held from July 4 to October 31, 2023, showcasing four original zodiac heads of the Qing Dynasty.
Chinese pop singer Cai Xukun responded to recent allegations on Monday, admitting that he had had a "relationship" with a woman but stressed it was "consensual" and that their "private affairs" had been settled appropriately.
The Museum of China Press and Publication, the first of its kind in the country, officially opened on Thursday.
The remains of an ancient well dating back to the Warring States period (475BC-221BC) have been found in Yangquan, North China's Shanxi Province.
A total of 22 ancient tombs spanning a period of 1,600 years were recently discovered in Kaifeng, Central China's Henan Province.
China's national language authority has published a new Chinese Coded Character Set to allow more than 17,000 rare Chinese characters be recognized by computers, according to Central China Television on Sunday.
Sonam Puncog and his Gesar King football teammates traveled over 1,600 kilometers from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Northwest China's Qinghai Province to participate in the Village Super League, or "Cun Chao" in Chinese, in Rongjiang County, Southwest China's Guizhou Province on Friday.
Duanwu Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year in China.