Youth art festival kicks off in Hangzhou

Brain Garden — The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & China Academy of Art Graduation Season kicked off on Thursday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.[Photo provided to China Daily]Brain Garden — The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & China Academy of...

The painting scroll of "A Panorma of Landscape" mounted three times and exhibited in the p

The information of the painting scroll of "A Panorama of Landscape" is almost complete, which can prove that the painting was indeed created by Wang Ximeng, a young painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. The scroll went through the complicated experience of mounting three times and entering...

Cultural Relics Forbidden to Be Exhibited Abroad - Tiaoxi Poetry Volume

Mi Fu (1051-1107), originally named Fu, with the courtesy name Yuanzhang and the sobriquet of Lumen Jushi and Xiangyang Manshi. Later, he changed his name to Fu. He was from Taiyuan and later settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province). He once served as the Ministry of Rites and concurrent...

Decoding contemporary China through ancient art

A Lady Holding a Fan by Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) artist Min Zhen(SHANGHAI MUSEUM)Chinese philosophy has produced a unique world of music, art and literature that never ceases to astonish audiences with its simplicity and tranquility, rendering Chinese art little known to the rest of the world—...

Dance drama based on artwork set for Macao

Chinese dance drama,Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, will be staged in Macao from Aug 24-28 with five performances.[Photo provided to China Daily]Chinese dance drama,Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting, will be staged in Macao fro...

Chinese musical presents a romantic love story

Young musical performers of the Chinese musicalLove Song.[Photo provided to China Daily]The original Chinese musical,Love Song, will premiere at Tianqiao Performing Arts in Beijing with five shows from June 9 to 11.Produced by Sichuan University of Culture and Arts and directed vet...

A series of key works

Buchbinder is presenting Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas at the NCPA from May 9-17.[Photo provided to China Daily]Legendary pianist Rudolf Buchbinder embarks on a run of concerts, during which he will perform all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Chen Nan reports.Few musicians have engaged...

Tibetan girl covering English songs went viral

The Tibetan girl bkra-kun-mtsho who comes from Tibetan Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Ngawa, Sichuan Province, has a fairy voice. She loved music since she was a child. Although she has no professional knowledge of music, her completely original voice is so clean and ethereal that it has attracted m...

Sound of the past, note for the future

Traditional bamboo flute attracts new admirers with its melodious tone, Wang Ru reports.Often accompanying the guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument, the xiao, a traditional vertical bamboo flute with a relatively light sound, was often viewed as a foil. But with its lon...

Acrobatic show highlights youth pursuing their dreams

Youth Has Another Name, a new acrobatic show produced by Hunan Provincial Performance and Arts Group, was staged at Poly Theater in Beijing on May 23.The show features a diversity of art forms, such as acrobatics, dance, music and visual arts. With four chapters, the show depicts the contemporary yo...

Chinese dancer-choreographer stages a multifaceted Frankenstein story in Switzerland

Chinese dancer-choreographer Wang Yabin's latest work,Swan — A Different Story, premiered in Lucerne, Switzerland, on May 5.Commissioned by the Lucerne Theater, the dance production featured artists of the theater, who fulfilled Wang's choreographic vision onstage.The Lucerne Symphony...

Kunqu comes alive

In 2001, when Kunqu Opera was listed as one of the masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO, Yang Fengyi, artistic director and head of the Northern Kunqu Opera Theater, traveled with her performers to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to witness the historic moment.They...

Covered Bridges: ​Taiping Bridge

Taiping Bridge, Longnan County, Jiangxi Photographer: Wu WeipingWhether it is the unexpected encounter and romance on Waterloo Bridge, or the heartbreaking parting on Madison County‘s Roseman Bridge, bridges are often meaningful symbols in artistic works as well as silent listeners in...

Papa Yang's Talk: Why do Chinese like enclosed courtyards?

Beijingers live in quadrangle courtyards and Shanxi people also live in quadrangle courtyards... why do they all live in quadrangle courtyards?...

Papa Yang's Talk: Harmony in diversity in Chinese architecture

There are many kinds of architecture in China, which are of one lineage but of variations. I think this is what Confucius called harmony in diversity....

Papa Yang's Talk: Important ceremonial building: memorial archways

Chinese architecture is varied and self-contained. There is more to her mystery and beauty....

Eagle-shaped Pottery Ding

Pottery,outoftheearth,hastogothroughitsjourneyoflife.Themakingofpotteryislikethemoldingofone’spersonality.Beingthrown,rolled,andbak...

Archaeologists detail contents of tomb in Shanxi

An artifact of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) that was unearthed in Xisiya village of Yuncheng, Shanxi province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]The Shanxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology published new archaeological excavation information on Tuesday about an ancient tomb datin...

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province. It has 735 caves, 2,415 colored clay statues and 45,000 square meters of murals, making it the largest and richest art treasure trove in the world. [Photo by Ren Shichen/cpanet.org.cn]In 1900, a great discovery was made at...

Treasures unearthed in Gansu shine light on Dunhuang culture

A new exhibition of 120 cultural treasures from China's Dunhuang Research Academy has opened in Northwest China's Gansu province. The institute helps oversee the 1,600-year-old Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site.Dedicated to chronicling the diverse and inclusive nature of Dunhuang...