By Li Xia Zenghouyi chime bells, an ancient Chinese musical instrument with a history of more than 2,400 years, has gained new vigor and enjoys great popularity in the modern world, thanks to the country's burgeoning digital technologies and cultural and creative industry. Excavated in 1978 from the tomb of…
The museum offers a panorama of Chinese culture and history through its comprehensive collection of texts. Such a large number of visitors to the museum was unprecedented.
Editor's note: A survey among China Daily's overseas readers ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China shows that the nation's ecological progress, economy, diplomacy, science and technology, and the Belt and Road Initiative are among some of the most closely observed issues.
Exquisite art pieces made by traditional Chinese handicrafts displayed along a corridor to the news center of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing have drawn the eyes of journalists from across the world. The corridor has become a popular venue for reporters to shoot their videos since the news center opened last week.
A Qinqiang Opera actor, Hou Yan felt ashamed to talk about her profession as a performer of the local folk opera that mainly thrived in northwestern China in the 1990s. This was at a time when pop songs and music introduced from the West were in vogue and sweeping the land.