Woodprint paintings are traditionally hung in homes around Spring Festival, but for the artists, creating the pictures is a yearlong activity and a lifetime of dedication. Wang Qian and Ju Chuanjiang report.
They sound like a hundred flutes, playing melodically as they dance among the clouds. As the Nantong whistle kites drift over the fields, you hear them before you see them. Banyao (ban means board and yao means snipe), the large, flat whistling kites, are large and flat with hexagon-shaped frames that flaunt exquisite decorations with vibrant colors.
Many people in China may suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder without knowing or admitting to it. Experts tell Wang Hongyi that these patients need professional help.
Breathing comes so naturally that most of us take it for granted. But for those suffering from pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, each breath is hard and painful.
A Shanghai public hospital has established a partnership with Duke University in the United States, part of the city's efforts to improve medical services for local residents and expand its medical resources.
After he had been learning the instrument for two years, Cao Rui decided it was time to buy her 7-year-old son a proper upright piano.
Just like Chinese acupuncture and traditional massage, pedicure has a long history in China, originating back in 3,000 BC.
He was not the smartest military man of his time, but Guan Yu (AD 160-219) has a legacy of loyalty, integrity, mercy and bravery - as depicted in China's classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms - that has earned him deity status in Chinese traditional culture. Now, experts are seeking UNESCO Cultural Heritage status for an architectural complex of Guan Yu, the much-admired general in the Three Kingdom Period (AD 220-280) also reverently known to Chinese as Guan Gong (Lord Guan).
There are four Chinese you should know. None of them is famous - or has the prospect of becoming so - or wealthy, or highly educated, or a newsmaker. But the four craftspeople from the countryside have somehow unknowingly found the secret to happiness, serenity and the essence of being a traditional Chinese.
Chinese books and writers are to greet readers from the world's largest book market - the United States - as China will be guest of honor at the Global Market Forum of 2015 BookExpo America.
Winter in the Chinese capital may be cold and gray, but fashion is providing welcome warmth and color. Eye-catching pieces like red knit caps, neon green sweaters and yellow woolen coats dot Beijing's somber landscape.
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