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.
Rows of houses are tucked among green hills and the farmlands of Dongtou district in Zhejiang province's Wenzhou city, next to which the East China Sea shimmers.
Chinese have become the second-largest tourist force in Antarctica. The polar region received 8,273 Chinese visitors during the 2017-2018 season, accounting for 16 percent of all, only second to the United States, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators.
Destinations covered in ice and snow no longer get a chilly reception from Chinese travelers as demand for winter tourism continues to grow.
Some Chinese have seen Hugh O'Hagan during his cameo in Danny Boyle's 1996 movie Trainspotting - and some saw him performing standup comedy in a packed theater in Beijing's Nanluoguxiang on New Year's Eve.
Ten professional skiing trainers from Russia recently moved to the Guaipo Ski Resort in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province.
French painter Georges Rouault (1871-1958) was once asked by a student if he would continue to paint just for himself in a scenario of being banished to a deserted island where his paintings did not find a second viewer. Rouault said, of course he would, because he painted to communicate with his soul.
Chinese cross-talk (xiangsheng) artist Guo Degang often jokes about "dark cuisine", such as pig-intestine sashimi and steamed pig heads with rock candy - and now his jokes have come true.
A unique venture popped up in Guangzhou in December, inviting citizens to be food adventurers by playing games.
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