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New Year Greeting From President Xi
Greetings! Time flies. As we are ushering in the year of 2018, I would like to extend my New Year wishes to my countrymen and women from all ethnic groups, in Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and in Taiwan, as well as overseas Chinese. I also wish good luck to friends from all countries and regions across the world. It is only natural that hard work pays off, and it brings change...
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24 Solar Terms: 9 things you may not know about Winter Solst
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Winter Solstice (Chinese: 冬至), the 22nd solar term of the year, begins this year on Dec 22. On the first day of Winter Solstice, the Northern Hemisphere experiences the shortest day and the longest night in the year, as the sun shines directly at the Tropic of Capricorn. From then on, the days become longer and the ni...
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Traditional Chinese Painting
Different from Western oil painting, traditional Chinese painting is characterized by unique forms of expression. Its roots can be traced back to paintings on Neolithic pottery 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Since similar tools were used to draw lines for the earliest painting and writing, painting and calligraphy are said to share the same origin. Chinese paintings often include poems and/or calligraph...
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Dancing Characters
Hanzi(Chinese characters) are the most commonly used script in China. According to surviving ancient literature and archeological findings, Chinese characters have a history of at least 5,000 years. The origin of Chinese characters corresponds with the history of ancient Chinese civilization. Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands, yet the most frequently used number about 3,500....
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Folk Arts in China
China boasts a wide variety of arts and crafts which are renowned for their excellent workmanship. In terms of technique, Chinese folk arts are categorized into cutting, bundling, plaiting, knitting, embroidering, carving, molding and paining. They all have strong local characteristics and diverse folk styles. For example, Jingtai cloisonne enamel gets its name from the fine blue-glaze variety prod...
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Essence of Spring-Apricot Blossom Festival Tour 9 Days
Spring is in the air so come and smell the Apricot. During the Spring, Xinjiang is more beautiful to visit when the apricot blossoms. Enjoy all of our best destination through Taxkorgan county, Turgen Vally Yili, Turpan and Urumqi during this wonderful time of year....
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New rules to supervise foreigners' self-drive tours in China
Foreigners will be investigated by the police if they ignore warnings not to approach out-of-bounds military zones during self-drive tours, said China's tourism regulator on its official website on Wednesday. Previously on August 18, the ministries of public security and foreign affairs, General Administration of Customs, National Tourism Administration and the General Staff Headquarters of People...
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Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, usually in October in Gregorian calendar. The festival has a long history. In ancient China, emperors followed the rite of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and to the moon in autumn. Historical books of the Zhou Dynasty had the word “Mid-Autumn”. Later aristocrats and literary figures helped expand the ceremony to co...
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