Travel China guide – ancient cities, modern marvels & authentic hanfu photos to capture traditional style on your journey.
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
“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…
Books and the qipao now share a clubhouse in Shanghai. The Bookish Qipao Reading Club was inaugurated on the evening of August 17 at Xujiahui Academy (徐家汇书院), the library in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, under the banner “Bookish Light, Qipao Bloom.”…
Oil sizzles across a round Luoguo griddle as slices of potato and cubes of tofu turn crisp at the edges, and at the stall run by Zhu Yaoping (朱幺萍) every seat is full by nine. The 2026 “Fortune Golden Fire”…
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