Spring Festival(or Chinese New Year) is the most important traditional festival in China. People celebrate it with lanterns and streamers,...
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Folk arts in China have developed dynamically, with many forms enjoying a worldwide reputation. Here we present an introduction to...
Peking operaperformers onstage Depicting a "virtual world"is a distinctive feature of Peking Opera. Its virtuality consists of two aspects: one...
To Chinese people, going to the theater to enjoy Peking Opera or other artistic performances is known as "seeing plays."What...
China's Peking Opera radiates with the beauty of resplendent color-vivid, intense and glamorous. This artistic beauty comes not only from...
Gardens in the south are mostly small in size. To evoke a sense of space, the use of "borrowing a distant...
House amid bamboo groves Rock formations play an important role in the construction of a Chinese-style garden. Without them,a garden...
The Chinese attach great importance to the qualities of being reserved and subtle，and the construction of gardens dotting the hazy...
Most Chinese porcelain ware embodies the characteristics of Confucian aesthetics. In its pursuit of gentleness and refinement one senses the...
Pure and elegant beauty is the goal that porcelain pursues, and this ideal is best explained in the production of...
Anyone familiar with Chinese porcelain knows that the surface of some porcelain ware is covered with irregular cracks. This is...
In English，the country and"porcelain"share the same name-"China."This proves that Europeans have long known of China's relationship to porcelain.Porcelain found its...
Ink and wash is a unique genre of traditional Chinese painting. It uses little or no color but applies black...
In the Hall for Cultivation of Mind of the Palace Museum，there is a Three-treasure Study，which derives its name for the...
Mid-Autumn，by wang Xianzhi（344-386）：aprecious work of chinese calligraphy Calligraphy is the art of lines，or strokes.Lin Huaimin（b.1947），a famous dancer from China's Taiwan...
In October 1996，a cave was accidentally discovered at a construction site in Qingzhou of Shandong Province.Archeologists found more than 400...
As one of the four famous grottoes in China, the Maijishan(Haystack Mountain) Grottoes are appreciated for the quality and quantity...
The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are considered the foremost representative of grotto arts. Dunhuang, once a town of strategic importance...
Renowned as one of the"Eight Wonders of the World,"the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of Qin(r.246-210 BC) is not...
The Bronze Age refers to the period when bronze tools and weapons were commonly used. The Bronze Age in China...