This is the seventh installment in the Global Times Year-end Special on culture, elaborating on the museum tour craze among the country s young generations. Museums employ a variety of techniques to woo young people, who are willing to visit museums now more than ever before, pointing to cultural confidence and the charm of traditional culture growing more profound among the youth.
The Dunhuang Caves Art Exhibition “Silk Road Splendor” opened to the public at the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum in Kaohsiung of Taiwan on Saturday, making it the largest and most spectacular Dunhuang art show held in the island of Taiwan.
Buddhism is like a banyan tree; its roots firmly in India while the branches spread to Central Asia, China, Far East and in the Indian Sub-continent, said Pro
With the 2023 Lantern Festival coming on Sunday, diverse celebrations are being prepared around the world for the traditional carnival. Marking the first full moon of the year according to the Chinese calendar, the festival is a time when Chinese people head out from home to wander through beautiful lantern shows and express their best wishes for a new year.
Handed down for thousands of years, the Lantern Festival still means a lot to Chinese and people from other regions around the world. The tradition of celebrating the festival is also being inherited and innovated on in modern society, reflecting the strong vitality of traditional Chinese culture.
From bookmarks sporting pictures of the Forbidden City and popsicles shaped like the Great Wall to a digital collection of paintings of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces and a virtual ambassador of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, China’s world heritage sites are becoming more and more part of people’s daily lives thanks to trendy and exquisite cultural creative products.