If your idea of a summer outing is a stretch of golden sunflowers and a slow walk, Yongji County (永吉县) in Jilin City, Jilin Province, had its answer ready on August 22. That morning the county’s sunflower fields were the…
Steam rose off the snack griddles of Xi’an’s Huangchengli Minleyuan Pedestrian Street (皇城里·民乐园步行街) on August 22, when the “Minle Fireworks Market” Stroll Festival opened a two-month run that lasts until October 22. The block folds Chinese-style stage shows, intangible-heritage opera,…
Shanghai’s Zhangyuan Art Museum (张渊艺术馆) in Minhang District set out to answer one question with its current exhibition: what happens to a craft once it leaves the seam of a garment? The result, “Kou Jian: Worlds Between Fingertips — a…
Full disclosure: I went to the Youth Innovation Beijing Trend-Shopping Fair (潮购会) for the Hanfu parade and stayed for the games. The fair opened on August 28 on the Celebration Square at Beijing’s Olympic Park, the stretch between the Bird’s…
Just before 17:30 on the opening afternoon, a troop of Hanfu-clad cosplayers stepped onto the paving stones of Changdi Street (长堤街) in Wuhan, and the crowd that had been working its way along the stalls turned to watch. The moment…
2,822 Hanfu companies, 15,627 online stores, 224 physical experience shops, a workforce of nearly 100,000 and 13 billion yuan in 2025 sales — those are the numbers Caoxian County (曹县) in Shandong built its reputation on. Its newest line of…
Open any serious study of Ming-dynasty menswear and the same three names appear together: the Zhiduo (直裰), the Daopao (道袍) and the Zhishen (直身). All are crossed-collar, right-lapel long gowns that hang past the knee, and at a glance they…
On August 22, “The Spirit of Jing Embroidery” (京绣里的精气神), a teacher-student exhibition of Li-family Jing embroidery by fifth-generation inheritor Liu Xiaoyan (刘晓燕), opened at the Yanjing Bada Museum (北京燕京八绝博物馆) in Beijing’s Shijingshan District (石景山区). The show presents close to a…
At dusk on August 21, the two blocks of Yaochi Tianjie (瑶池天街) filled with tables placed end to end, and servers dressed as the fairies of the Jade Pool moved down the line with platters. The moment marked the opening…
When an international invitational exhibition makes its first stop in Songjiang (松江), it arrives with a local reason for being there: this year marks twenty years since Gu embroidery (顾绣), the district’s signature needle art, was listed in the first…
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