Fulong New Street (福隆新街) in Macao’s Sao Lourenco parish was built in the late Qing period as a lane of teahouses and shuttered shops, their wooden doors painted the deep red that gave the quarter its old nickname of the…
Moving 95 relics across roughly 3,000 kilometers, through four provinces and five museums, is the part of an exhibition that no visitor ever sees. The public part began on August 13, 2026, when “Zhenguan Tianxia” (贞观天下) — “The Tang World…
The T-shaped silk painting that has anchored the summer at China Art Museum in Shanghai is going home, and the museum has turned its final two evenings into a Hanfu night. On August 15 and 16, the “Qianjin Zhijia” (千金之家,…
Two thousand years before “beauty routine” entered any dictionary, Han-dynasty women had already standardized one: a light pink base, rouge pressed onto the cheekbones, eyebrows drawn in one of several named styles. On August 15, 2026, the Weinan Museum in…
Why fill a hall with pouches? Because, the curators at Changning’s heritage center argue, a Hebao (荷包) is a history of Chinese life folded into palm size. The show “Jinxiu Hebao” — a survey of fine embroidered pouches — opened…
An imperial garden in northern Beijing now smells faintly of Guizhou (贵州) pepper and boiling beef broth. The Guizhou Heritage Roots Market opened on August 22 along the lotus-lined east shore of Beihai Park and runs through August 31, an…
Press a rubbing of a dragon-and-phoenix motif and the structure of Luchou silk (潞绸) becomes visible: warp threads packed so evenly that the woven pattern reads like a painting. That rubbing station, set up inside the Lu-Anfu (潞安府) Luchou Culture…
The numbers tell the story: 68 percent of the shots filmed on real locations. The Road to Splendor (花开锦绣), a 36-episode Ming-dynasty drama starring Ding Yuxi (丁禹兮) and Deng Enxi (邓恩熙), premiered on Tencent Video at noon on August 9,…
Qixi begins long before the seventh night of the seventh lunar month in the villages around Guangzhou. In Zhucun (珠村), a neighborhood known as “China’s first Qiqiao village,” women have spent generations preparing the ba qiniang offering tables, arranging miniature…
Every made-to-order suit of Ming-style Hanfu from Minghuatang (明华堂) takes three to four days to cut and finish by hand, and the Guangzhou-based label’s order book now runs to March 2027. The brand, often described as the ceiling of the…
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