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In a recently released still from the historical drama The Road to Splendor (花开锦绣), young actress Deng Enxi (邓恩熙) appears in full bridal regalia. Atop her head sits a gilded ceremonial crown, its base inlaid with kingfisher feathers, decorated with…
Every year during the Hungry Ghost Festival, a particular image haunts Chinese screens and memories: a stiff, hopping figure in a dark blue official robe, arms stretched straight forward, wearing a peaked hat with a red tassel. This is the…
Qixi Festival (七夕) arrives every summer, yet millions of children open their Chinese textbooks and read a story that is neither historically accurate nor culturally innocent. Parents across the country are now speaking out, not against romance, but against a…
Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a flurry of pink marketing campaigns and romantic clichés floods the internet, urging couples to celebrate “Chinese Valentine’s Day.” But this modern interpretation misses the point entirely. The actual…
Forget the flowers and chocolates. The modern commercial spectacle of Qixi (七夕) as a Chinese Valentine’s Day barely scratches the surface of its true story. This festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is a…
Forget synthetic sprays. Long before Parisian perfumers bottled their first concoctions, ancient Chinese elites were already mastering the art of personal fragrance—not as a luxury, but as a language of power, ritual, and identity. From jade-adorned sachets to ingestible pills…
Ancient fashion meets modern infrastructure, and the internet can’t stop talking. At Xi’an East Railway Station, restroom signs no longer rely on the usual stick figures in pants or skirts. Instead, a mustachioed man in a round-collar robe and a…
Was an Ancient Persian Artifact Really Turned into Red Carpet Jewelry? That is exactly what happened when Zendaya (赞达亚) wore a pair of earrings featuring 3,000-year-old gold discs to promote her film The Odyssey (奥德赛). The outcry from archaeologists and…
For audiences in Dakar, the robe on the mannequin is not only a garment — it is a set of rules in silk. Shandong Museum opened “Confucius’ Hometown, Hospitable Shandong: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Costume Culture” at the Museum of…
Laomeihua (老美华), the Tianjin clothing house founded in 1911, marked its 115th anniversary on August 9 with an ancestor ceremony in the morning and a three-way product launch at the Tianjin Museum in the afternoon. The event paired the museum’s…
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