The Chinese call themselves "the descendants of the dragon" for a reason. Emperor Yandi, a legendary tribal leader in predynastic China, was said to have been born out of his mother's telepathic interaction with a mighty dragon.
Celebrations of the Lunar New Year are in full swing worldwide as China's traditional Spring Festival holiday draws growing, enthusiastic attention across the globe.
"Virtually all of the 56 ethnic groups in China now celebrate Spring Festival, but many have also integrated their own cultural elements, further enriching the cultural connotations of the festival."
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin revealed that there would be more events held in China and France amid celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations.
China's cultural authority has successfully retrieved the stolen and lost Western Zhou (1046BC-771BC) bronze vessel known as Feng Xing Shu Gui from the U.S., marking the end of its 40-year odyssey abroad and its return to its homeland.
When Raymond King helped his mother clear out old belongings in her New York apartment, little did they know an unassuming bronze vessel, nestled among other antiques, was a lost treasure crafted at least 2,800 years ago in China.
The transportation department in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province has announced that passengers dressed in ancient Chinese attire will be able to ride the subway citywide for free.
Since its inaugural broadcast in 1983, the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala has become an integral part of celebrations in the country to usher in the Chinese New Year.
Chinese and French musicians brought down the house on Wednesday evening at the Royal Opera of Versailles inside the Palace of Versailles at the opening concert of the 2024 China-France Year of Culture and Tourism.
More than 105,000 stone tools, wood tools, bone tools and animal fossils, about 60,000 relics including seeds, fruits and spores, alongside traces of fire, cutting, carving and polishing left by ancient humans were found at the Mengxihe Site.
The Sino-Kenyan joint archaeological expedition at the Lake Bogoria site in Kenya announced the unearthing of 22 sites containing more than 2,000 stone artifacts, according to a report by the China News Service (CNS).
The Xiwubi site is situated in the southern part of the village in Jiangxian county.
Excavation sites reflecting ancient political power and a rare offshoot Christian sect in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are among the top six new archaeological discoveries in China in 2023.
The discovery of the Paleolithic Mengxihe site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, was declared as one of the six most important archaeological finds in China last year at an archaeology forum organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Tuesday.
The Su Shi-Themed Cultural Relics Exhibition, centered around the renowned poet and calligrapher Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), is set to open its doors to the public on February 1 in South China's Hainan Province, where Su once stayed for three years.
Including a four-wheeled wooden carriage, a new batch of relics has recently been unearthed from Pit No.1 at the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the burial place of China's first emperor, in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The Lonely Warrior, or San Da Dui, a popular crime thriller that has kept Chinese people both glued to the screens and on tenterhooks, has recently wrapped up with resounding success.
The political denigration campaign against China organized by some western powers and media has created a really distorted image of the country, said Javier García Fernández, journalism professor at Renmin University of China and former director of Agencia EFE in China during a conference held in Beijing on Wednesday.
Hand gestures resembling the modern-day victory sign in murals adorning a recently unearthed Tang Dynasty (618-907) tomb have sparked curiosity among archaeologists and visitors alike.
The“Decoding Zhonghua”International Conference on Dialogue among Civilizations was held in Beijing on Wednesday, with the theme “Pursing Harmonious Coexistence of Civilizations Through Dialogue.”
Laba Festival, which falls on the eighth day of the 12th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is a festival celebrated for more than 1,000 years.
A significant breakthrough has been achieved in the archaeological excavation of the Chuan Dong site in Puding County, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, pushing the history of human activity in the area back to 55,000 years ago.
Beijing authorities are set to proceed with repair and archaeological work on one of the most perilous sections of the Great Wall starting from April this year, the Huairou district authority of Beijing has announced.
China and the United States have extended a key intergovernmental agreement on combating the theft of and illegal trade in cultural relics, the National Administration of Cultural Heritage announced on Thursday.
A long-lost bronze relic from the Summer Palace in Beijing has been returned from overseas and was transferred back to its home on Wednesday.
Chinese archaeologists recently pinpointed the origin of the mysterious Jianjiapo tomb site in the east Tianshan region in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning introduced on Tuesday that very recently, the Peking University table tennis team visited the U.S. at its invitation and took part in the USATT Table Tennis Open Championships and an event held by the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in the U.S. to mark the historic ping-pong diplomacy.
A tomb that dates back some 2,200 years ago was uncovered inadvertently in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality last year, amazing archaeologists with its extremely well-preserved state and some unique relics that have never been seen before.
A long-awaited television series, which was released in both Mandarin and the Shanghai dialect in late December, has sparked discussions among residents, online viewers and experts over the preservation and inheritance of the declining Shanghai dialect.
The Chinese Academy of History issued two books to mark the fifth anniversary of its founding at a news conference in Beijing on Thursday.