A Qiqiao (乞巧) offering display is not a painting you hang and walk past. It is a diorama built from grain, paper, bamboo and patience, and Wangniudun (望牛墩) put 21 of them, one from each village in the town, on…
If you have ever wanted to walk a riverside in a Tang robe and call it an assignment, this is the closest thing to a formal invitation. On August 11, the 38th Guangyuan Daughter Festival (广元女儿节) opened recruitment for “Poetry…
The Qixi (七夕) river lantern tradition of Rongchang (荣昌) began in 2014, and the eleventh edition of the festival opened on August 15 in Wanling Ancient Town (万灵古镇), a national AAAA scenic area in Chongqing. The five-day event runs through…
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…
Hashtags related to #becomingchinese and #chinamaxxing have passed 4 billion combined views on TikTok, Instagram and X by the summer of 2026. The phrase owes its start to a 20-second video posted in late 2025 by Zhu Xirui (朱溪瑞), a…
The first sound visitors heard at Zhangze Lake National Urban Wetland Park on August 14 was not a ribbon being cut but the Shangdang Bayin Hui (上党八音会) — the region’s eight-tone ensemble — filling the shore with drums, gongs and…
Indanthrene blue is not the first color that comes to mind when people picture the qipao, but it was one of the most-worn hues of 1930s Shanghai. The story runs through the current exhibition at the Shanghai Library’s Huaihai Road…
On the night of August 18, a hundred young people in Hanfu walked from the Great East Gate of Xindeng Ancient Town (新登) to the Lisui Gate (利遂门) at its west end, their sleeves catching the light of the old…
The collar that Western fashion calls the Mandarin collar sits neither high nor low, circles the neck without lapels, and needs no tie. It shows up on custom qipao from Shanghai, on the Nehru jacket, on the Beatles’ collarless suits,…
“Every stitch of this peach-blossom sachet follows a rule — the blessing of Qixi and the life of the old town are sewn right into it,” a visitor named Ms. Li said on the evening of August 16, threading a…
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