Arts & Culture

Recently, the opening lighting ceremony of the 2026 Chang’an Lantern Festival, themed “Thousands of Lanterns Shining on Chang’an and Welcoming Spring with Horses,” was grandly held in the historic city of Xi’an, China. The Festival, which used to open for Spring Festival and has been brought forward this year, blends the city's millennium-old cultural heritage with modern...

The 2026 Dujiangyan Village Candy Fair kicked off on New Year's Eve in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, home to the world's oldest functioning irrigation system. The event began with a lantern show themed around the region's millennia-old water conservancy wisdom. Giant lantern installations inspired by the story of Li Bing, the ancient Sichuan governor who oversaw the...

When UNESCO officially named Wuxi as China’s first “UNESCO City of Music” on October 31, it inspired French music blogger and Chinese cultural enthusiast Alice Roche to write the evocative, bilingual song, L’Âme de Wuxi (The Moon Shadow over Liangxi). Roche's poetic lyrics, "Liangxi water, soaking the moonlight of the past; Huishan spring, gently singing of times gone by,"...

With its recent inclusion in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as China’s first “World City of Music”, Wuxi is stepping confidently into a new...

From November 28th to 30th, the city will host the 23rd Teochew International Convention, welcoming Teochew people from around the world and sharing...

Co-presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Center for the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Summer for the City's Shanghai...

Mid-summer breathes life into Inner Mongolia’s grassland, where lush pastures glisten after seasonal rains, nourishing herds beneath vast blue...