Lantern Festival, or yuanxiaojie in pinyin, which comes on the 15th day of the first lunar month, is the first festival after the celebration of Lunar New Year in China.
Clad in loose yellow pants with gold sequins, Deng Binguang and Tang Zaipeng along with 18 other members from their troupe, performed a lion dance show on China Central Television's Spring Festival Gala on Feb 4. The annual gala on the eve of Lunar New Year is one of the most watched entertainment programs worldwide, viewed this year by 1.17 billion people.
Wallace Chan is an acclaimed Hong Kong-based jeweler who has attained international success through his innovation in techniques and materials. Born in Fujian province, Chan found his artistic calling early on, fashioning flowers out of plastic at age eight. At 16, he began an apprenticeship with a sculptor in a traditional workshop for nine months. Over the next 40 years (and counting), Chan has experimented with a wide spectrum of techniques and materials to realize his artistic vision. In the process, he invented a jadeite thinning and luminosity-enhancing technology, and introduced the "Wallace cut" of carving designs within a gemstone. Most recently, he has patented Wallace Chan porcelain, a product said to be unbreakable and five times stronger than steel. CDLP met up with him in his Stanley Street studio on the eve of his exhibition with auction house Christie's, Shapeshifter: The Multiverse of Wallace Chan.
Fashion photography, once thought frivolous, has become art's rising star with a new visual language
With the first full moon of the lunar year, the 15 days of celebrations for Spring Festival wind down, and life will return to normal. On this day, yuanxiaojie, or Lantern Festival, there will be one final round of eating and drinking.
CAIRO - "I believe that I started to know more about the Chinese culture, people, history and traditions through working on the Arabic dubbing of Chinese drama," said an Egyptian media production manager, "so, I love what I am doing."
NetEase Cloud Music, an online music streaming service under Chinese internet company NetEase Inc, has launched a channel for Western classical music, one of the first of its kind in the country, in the hope that younger audiences will take to the genre.
When Thai business-man Dhanin Chearavanont visited Shenzhen in 1979, the present-day megacity was merely a poor village with a population of around 12,000.
URUMQI - Chef Abdu Salam's everyday job is to make impeccable naan dough with his rolling pin and hands, a skill he has honed over the last four years working with a village naan master.
On Feb 9, the Suzhou Chinese Orchestra staged its 13th performance in Europe, the last stop of its Europe tour at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia. This show was to mark Lunar New Year and the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Russia.
It is not uncommon to see people going to karaoke outlets, playing cards and mahjong during Spring Festival holiday in Chinese villages. As part of a rural revitalization strategy, traditional opera shows were also staged to enrich the cultural life of rural residents.
Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan has recently had to live down being placed in the same category as great authors such as Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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