HEFEI - Carrying his single-lens reflex camera, tripod and light blocker, Yang Dezhou is ready to capture the "dancing aunties" with their flying silk scarves against a blue sky in East China's Anhui province.
Travelers bundle up so that only their eyes are exposed to the frigid winds - but their eyelashes quickly freeze. Not even hot water stays liquid at these temperatures. Visitors splash hot water into the air and watch it fall as snow and tiny icicles.
Visitors to one of China's chilliest destinations can enjoy scalding hotpot in the open air and flavored ice for dessert.
Driver Zhang Guoyu zipped across the ice to finish the 4-kilometer race in 2 minutes and 27 seconds to finish in second place.
When artist Ji Youquan, who works for the People's Liberation Army, first went to Luntai in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as a tourist in 1998, he says he did not think he would visit the county every year for the next two decades, least of all to make paintings of desert poplars, a member of the willow family.
DUBLIN - The largest Chinese New Year Festival ever to be held in the Irish capital, Dublin, will be staged from Feb 1 to 17, organizers announced last week.
When Chinese rock band, Zi Yue - or It Says in English - released their first album called The First Volume in 1996, the band's founder, singer-songwriter and bassist, Qiu Ye, could not have imagined the lasting influence his music would have on China's rock scene.
JERUSALEM - Sino-Israeli cultural and trade-promotion activities were launched at the China Cultural Center in Tel Aviv, attracting many Israelis, on Tuesday.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will ring in the Year of the Pig at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States, on Feb 2.
There may be very few people who were more bent on filling their lives with auspicious cultural symbols than the Qing Dynasty Chinese. And to do so, they drew extensively from their millennia-old language, pairing two words with identical or similar pronunciations.
The last month of the lunar calendar used to be called the Hunting Month in more rustic times.
Red Lobster, the world's largest seafood restaurant chain and fresh seafood purchaser, has opened its first location in China at Shanghai's IFC Mall.
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