Culture
A 99-meter-high Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue was constructed in Anhui. Costing over 300 million (about 49 million US dollars), the statue is about to open to public in September.
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The Jade Leaf Storytelling Theater is housed in an abandoned workshop. Audiences pay 80 yuan ($13) for monthly tickets.There are various kinds of Fuzhou storytelling, including tales related to history, swordsmen, righteous government officials and daily life.[Detail]
A new show is being made for its inaugural performance, The Legend of Emperor Qin, which will premiere in spring 2014 and be performed daily year-round.It jointly manages theaters in Shanghai, and Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and is developing productions of Broadway shows in Chinese.[Detail]
A rare jade statue was unearthed for the first time from a nearly 2,000-year-old burial site in northwest China's Shaanxi province. The statue was discovered in a tomb in Maying Town of Baoji City by archaeologists from Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology (SPIA).[Detail]
Some call it creative, others crazy, but there is no denying we are witnessing a wealth of shapes and sizes spring up.[Detail]
A visitor views a statue named Family at the 16th Beijing International Art Expo in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 29, 2013. The four-day expo opened in Beijing on Thursday, displaying over 1,300 artworks from home and abroad.[Detail]
Creativities fill the air of the baking arts gallery. White castles, cartoon characters, fairy maidens...all come to life through the hands of the pastry chefs.Gino’s Baking Arts Gallery has already opened to the public. What better place to awaken the senses and while away in your weekend hours.[Detail]
The International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai is introducing some jaw-dropping 7D films. Visitors to the exhibition have had a chance to watch and take part in three interactive movies, that combine traditional film technology with computer games.[Detail]
Standing and performing on a piece of bamboo stick floating on the water surface is the exclusive folk skill in southwest China's Guizhou province.
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Words that are "borrowed" from another language, such as "dama", are called "loanwords". This is not a new phenomenon in linguistics[Detail]
The 73-year-old Zhou, who has been struggling with asthma and coronary disease for years, said he believes the good environment in Bama can help him battle his diseases, and he plans to return to the county annually.Chen Jinchao, head of the Guangxi Bama Longevity Research Institute, said the number of migratory people flocking to Bama has been on the rise in recent years."Last year, around 10000 such tourists spent their Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year.Rather than blindly searching for a long-life recipe in a longevity county, Chen said.[Detail]
An official list standardizing the appearance of commonly used Chinese language characters has been published, the Ministry of Education revealed Tuesday.According to Zhang, the standard, which also includes a table for conversion between the simplified and traditional forms of these characters, will also facilitate Chinese language communications between countries and regions.[Detail]
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the film's producer who has produced all the Transformers movies, is in Beijing to find new talents for "Transformers 4," [Detail]
Two children look at a device which can predict sunny and rainy days during the 2013 Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition Program in east China's Shanghai, Aug. 28, 2013. The six-day event kicked off at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on Wednesday.[Detail]
The man who posted this set of pictures is Zhu Hanwei, deputy director of Office of Xinghua Travel Bureau.[Detail]
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