"In the final, I have to be myself and don't leave any chance for my competitors and the judges."
For more than two centuries, the Xu family in Zhangzhou, East China's Fujian province, have been passing down one skill - carving a variety of faces on small pieces of camphor wood.
When Wan Li's first daughter Duo Duo was born six years ago, the oil painter was unprepared to be a father. But his two daughters are now his inspiration and he now sees himself as "a painter for daughters".
A delegation of Cantonese chefs is visiting three countries as part of a plan to promote Chinese culinary culture abroad. Li Yingxue reports.
How do you make 10 dishes in a courtyard for a dozen tables of guests at a wedding dinner and serve it on time?
For Jim Rogers, an investor from the United States, investment is not just about money.
A new and colorful door opened to welcome the Year of the Dog on the Chinese lunar calendar, with happy dogs about to move into their symbolic house, while next door, which is drab and dull, is already closed after a farewell to 2017, the Year of the Rooster, with tracks announcing the recent departure of roosters.
Bijie in Southwest China's Guizhou province has set up the New Era Workshops to help people understand government policies on poverty alleviation and rural development.
Actress Li Li walks quickly around the stage in a circle. Painstakingly, she repeats the moves again and again. The dust from the carpet billows in the air, catching the sunlight as it streams through the window.
A group of elderly people carrying bags stuffed with cosmetics, clothes and snacks flocked into the Chaoyang Museum of Urban Planning in Beijing one weekend morning in late January.
First the tourists raise a bowl of fragrant plum wine, propose a toast to each other and swallow it neat. Then, they smash the bowls onto the ground one after another, just for good fortun.
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