My friend and I have arrived in Katherine,
To survive in this vast land on the ocean, the Aborigines had to be in close contact with nature. This shows in their music, too,
The didgeridoo is made from a hollow tree branch. To play the didgeridoo, you put your mouth on one end and blow while vibrating your lips.
The lantern fair in Zigong, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, which
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To mark the Year of the Dragon, many of the lanterns
The lantern show is also expressing the concept of environmental protection. For example, a dragon lantern
This year’s show received more than 3,000 children’s artworks from around the world. Some of the art pieces were turned into lanterns by
Famous for lantern-making, Zigong saw its lanterns lighting 80 cities across China during the Spring Festival holiday and Zigong lanterns
Wearing Hanfu and sitting in front of a Chinese zither (筝), Peng Jingxuan, a young Chinese student, moves her fingers gently along the strings on a street in Paris, France.
Peng has shared more than 200
Chinese zither (筝), or guzheng, is an ancient musical instrument with 21-26 strings and a length of 1.63 meters. Peng
Considering her audience’s
At noon, the Tongxin Cafeteria near the Jing’an Temple downtown has a queue that shows its multi-generational popularity. The menu, with over 60 dishes changed daily,
These cafeterias, once known as “ senior canteens”, were originally established to provide healthy meals
The earliest written record of noodles is found in a book dating back to the Eastern Han period (25-220). Noodles
There are over 1,200 types of noodles
The first concrete information on pasta products in Italy dates back to the Etruscan civilization, the Testaroli. The first noodles appear much later, in the 13th or 14th centuries, and there is
China has nearly 5,000 years of
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of the furniture was hand-made using high-quality wood
The most delicate aspect of Chinese classical furniture is the structural part of the furniture-mountains-and-treetops (榫卯) work. Combining pieces of wood together,
Ancient Chinese