For Chinese communities in Australia, Mid-Autumn Festival celebration is
Wayne Wong, as one of the new
For Chinese Australians, Mid-Autumn Festival keeps them
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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
The Yinxu Museum opens in Anyang, Henan province, to display the brilliance of the 3,000-year-old Shang civilization.
Nearly 4,000 unearthed cultural relics are displayed in the museum. More than three quarters of these have never been
The Yinxu Ruins,
Many key breakthroughs
These discoveries further displayed a grand picture of a capital city
Wild lands across Africa are home to many rare, threatened, and endangered species. Having recognized their extraordinary value and
Let’s take the example of Ethionia’s Simien Mountains National Park. In 1996 when it entered the list of World Heritage In Danger,
However, in 2017, the park made history with its
China’s new hit TV show To the Wonder has made Altay in the Xinjiang Uygur
Adapted
The grassland views and free and easy lives
The travel portal Qunar said that from May 7, flight ticket bookings to Altay rose 20 percent compared with the same period in the previous month, and hotel bookings
It is not the first time that a hit show
In Xinjiang, China, the beautiful scenery can often take miraculous forms. Anjihai Town has become famous the world over due to one canyon (峡谷) in particular. The river,
The canyon is about 30 kilometers
The much-anticipated stage version of Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s first drama, Crocodile, premiered at the Suzhou Bay Grand Theatre in Suzhou, Jiangsu province,
Crocodile is the first original drama script
Six decades ago, China and France established diplomatic ties.
Over the past six decades, this dynamic relationship
Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin believes that it is the love for peace that brings them together. As a
Lefevre Michele,
Oceane Rivoire, now a student
90 percent of the world’s fireworks are produced in China. The biggest importer is the US, which
The details of fireworks’ invention are lost to history, but
An explosive mixture of gun-powder and chemical compounds (化合物) is
The single biggest firework shell ever shot was part of a 2020 winter-carnival display in Colorado, US.
For centuries we had to light firework
Chilis (辣椒) weren’t always in China, says Brian Dott, a history professor at Whitman College and author of The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography.
The first
But while elite Chinese enjoyed chili peppers in their decorative gardens, the masses began eating and enjoying the hot plants. By 1765, local historians noted that chi is were used