The fourth national census of cultural relics will begin this month, with the aim of gaining a comprehensive grasp of the scope of the country's immovable cultural heritage sites, the State Council, China's Cabinet, has announced.
A new museum will be built on the excavation site of two ancient Han tombs in Jiyang, East China's Shandong Province, where visitors can enter the tomb chamber through a walkway and study the famous original stone carvings of the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220).
A cup of cappuccino with a hint of tea or a glass of jasmine tea with Latte art has become the top choice of hot drinks for many in autumn.
A gallery displaying printing woodblocks opened at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday, the first such exhibition space of its kind since the museum opened to the public in 1925.
An array of ancient chariots, including a four-wheeled wooden chariot and a rare "six-sheep" carriage, were discovered near the mausoleum of China's first Emperor Qinshihuang in Qin Dynasty (221 BC-206 BC) in Xi'an.
A rare sheep-drawn chariot was excavated at the western tomb of Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum site recently in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, which helps further research on ancient Chinese vehicles.
China appreciates Australia's effort to return precious cultural relics, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday.
Australia returned two precious cultural relics and a fossil and donated an artifact and an art piece to China in a handover ceremony on Wednesday at the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
The Australian National Art Gallery returned three precious cultural artifacts to China on Wednesday ahead of the planned visit of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to China.
The Three-Mountain Kings Ancestral Temple in Jieyang, Guangdong province, which has for years been a shared bond for people across the Taiwan Strait, will be upgraded to better facilitate exchanges.
An event introducing the culture of Southwest China's Sichuan province to the United Kingdom is held in London on Oct 20.Sichuan is well-known for being home to giant pandas, with 16 giant panda nature reserves housing more than 80 percent of China's giant pandas.
Chinese writer Hai Ya's The Space-Time Painterwon the Hugo Award for Best Novelette on Saturday. He became the third Chinese writer to win a Hugo award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.
The heads of five beasts - the ox, tiger, monkey, pig, and horse - are on display at Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, in Beijing, from Wednesday to Oct. 29.
Sony Pictures International Productions has acquired remake rights for the Chinese comedy drama Hi, Mom, according to Variety exclusive report on Thursday, which topped the trending chart and stirred a buzz on China's social media platform Sina Weibo.
Four rural villages in China were on Thursday named Best Tourism Villages 2023, an accolade by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
Containing more than 1.3 million Chinese characters, the five-book series consists of interviews with 29 librarians aged above 80. Twelve of them have sadly passed away since making their contribution to the series.
Archaeologists have found two shipwrecks deep in the South China Sea, which serve as a witness to commercial and cultural exchanges along the ancient Maritime Silk Road.
Language educators from more than 50 countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative formed a network on Monday in Beijing to help remove language barriers and address cultural misunderstandings.
In his Complete Essays on Shanshui Paintings, 12th-century artist and theorist Han Zhuo wrote about how painters of classical Chinese landscapes could portray people's activities depending on the varying four seasons.
Japanese singer-songwriter Shinji Tanimura died on October 8 at the age of 74. The news was announced on his official website on October 16, according to media reports.
Lined up neatly, over 50 ancient explosive weapons were recently excavated at the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. William, a Russian student at Beijing Language and Culture University, said that many of his friends now aspire to come to China for studies, as China has become increasingly open.
"I hope that through such activities, children from China and Russia can gain an understanding of different cultures and get to know art and history," said Kosterina Evgeniya, a Russian painter, who has held many youth painting exhibitions in both countries.
At an Nv Shu Museum in Yongzhou City of central China’s Hunan Province, Italian Giulia Falcini was holding a mobile gimbal. She recorded an inheritor singing songs of Nv Shu, or “Women’s Language”, which is the world's only known written language for women that dates back more than 1,000 years in Jiangyong county of Hunan Province.
Newly uncovered cultural relics from 27 graves in North China's Shanxi Province reflect the integration of Shanxi culture and local indigenous culture, according to the Shanxi Academy of Archaeology.
"Auspicious Dragon," a novel Chinese zodiac mascot that blends the majestic image of the Chinese dragon with a touch of cuteness, was revealed to the public at a press conference in Beijing on Saturday.
The importance of great rivers in the development of civilizations and how to better protect cultural heritage in these areas was under the spotlight at a major forum in Zhengzhou, Henan province, last month.
Xi Jinping Thought on Culture was formally put forward at a national meeting on work related to public communication and culture, which was held in Beijing on Saturday and Sunday.