On May 13th, the fifth session of China (Ningxia) International Culture Art Tourism Exhibition was held in Wuzhong city of Ningxia Hi Autonomous Region. Many important relevant leaders attended to the opening ceremony such as Zhang Yi, the secretary of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Party and Director of the Standing Committee, Wang Zhengwei, and the […]
During the period from June 4th to 7th in 2012, the ninth ministers‘ conference of the Cultural Ministry of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states was held in Beijing. With the invitation of the Ministry of Culture in China, the delegations of 12 member states of Shanghai Cooperation Organization as well as the representatives of the […]
The first national opera Song of Canal holds the first public performance in Beijing during the period from June 21st to 24th, which is the period of the Dragon Boat Festival. A piece of news comes from some students who study in Mandarin language courses in China that this national opera is created by the […]
We all know that there are totally 56 nationalities in China. But do you know how many languages spoken by so many peoples in China? Han people, Hui nationality and Man nationality all speak Mandarin Chinese while other 12 groups have their own writings such as Mongoloid, Tibetan, Uyghur people, Kazak people, Kirgiz people, Yi […]
It was known that the Palace Museum had been classifying the collection pieces continuously for seven years since 2004. As far as the end of year 2012, the real objects were corresponding to the goods on the list. Among the classified goods, there were 1684490 pieces of precious cultural relics, 115419 ordinary cultural relics and […]
During September 24th to 28th in 2012, the National Ballet of China would present the classic ballet Little Mermaid at Beijing Tianqiao Theater. The play was written and directed by John Neumeier and was the first play in recent years which was from the masters in the ballet circle. In the news conference of the […]
As many foreign students who learn to speak in China, the carved lacquer handicrafts are the most successful ones in all the lacquer ware in Yuan Dynasty during AD 1271 to AD 1378. The carved lacquer handicrafts are also called the carved marbled lacquer ware and Tixi in Chinese. They are decorated with embossed lacquer […]
The 5th Beijing International Seminar on Tibetan Studies ended in Beijing. The seminar attracted 267 scholars and experts on the Tibetan studies from 21 countries. The seminar was co-hosted by the Tibetan Studies Research Center of China, China Association of Tibetan Cultural protection and Development and Tibet Societal and Scientific Institute. The theme of the […]
With the improvement of living standards of the Chinese people, Chinese citizens have been able to go abroad as tourists since 1997. China has now approved 52 countries and 2 regions as tourism destinations. China received 91.66 million overseas tourists in 2003；Foreign exchange from international tourism reached US$17.4 billion. A total of 20.22 million Chinese […]
Practiced by monks, Shaolin Kungfu is well known as one type of martial arts with special Buddhist culture of the Songshan Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng City, Henan Province. Shaolin Kungfu has a comprehensive and technical system, so monks need to practice it for many years to get the real insight of Shaolin. The Shaolin Temple was built […]