BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Yimakan, a singing and speaking art that tells everything from the myths and legends to the stories of love, war and daily life of an ancient Chinese tribe, has recently ...

GUIYANG, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- For Italian mezzo-soprano Erica Cortese, 31, the greatest challenge in performing Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) poetry in a symphonic song was not only the language but ...

A year ago, traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. One year on, find out ...

Situated in the north of the Beijing’s axis, the shapes of the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube are respectively round and square, representing the semi-circular dome of the sky and the square earth in the ...

纸影戏是中国皮影戏中独具地域特色的流派，它们就是几百年前的中国电影。 Paper Shadow Play is a regionally distinctive form of Chinese shadow puppetry --basically, it was the "cinema" of ancient China. 湘潭纸影作为南方影戏中保存最完整、最具特色的一种民间艺术形式，融合了戏曲 ...

Artists perform during the opening ceremony of 15th Quanzhou International Nanyin Symposium in Quanzhou, southeast China's ...

Where do you get the latest weather forecasts, from apps on your cell phone, or the Internet? In ancient China, when people had no satellites, they relied on their direct observation and experiences.

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- "What we take from nature should be well-measured, and how we use these things should be restrained" was once proposed by an ancient Chinese official, and the proposal ...