Chinese culture

  In a trip to central China's Hunan Province, a Xinhua correspondent was invited by his Pakistani friends to visit an academy built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Produced by Xinhua Global Service■

  NANCHANG, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Gan hair embroidery is an art form with a history of nearly 500 years that features the use of human hair as the thread in creating intricate designs on fabric. This technique is recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of east China's Jiangxi Province which is traditonally referred as "Gan" in literary ocntext. In the hands of Tao Yonghong, the 17th generation inheritor of Gan hair embroidery-making skills, hair is such a handy tool for her as the ink and colors for a painter in depicting all sorts of objects such as landscapes, figures, flowers, and birds. Apart from inheriting the traditions, Tao has developed many customized works, sewing memories and blessings into the embroidery works for her clients. Tao Yonghong threads a hair through a needle to make Gan hair embroidery at an exhibition center for intangible cultural heritage in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 13, 2024.  (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)   Tao Yonghong makes a Gan hair embroidery work at an exhibition center for intangible cultural heritage in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)   Tao Yonghong (R) demonstrates Gan hair embroidery making to visitors at an exhibition center…

YINCHUAN, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- El Batoul Nejjaoui from Morocco has been in China for over five years and is now an expert at a cultural communication agency in Ningxia. Nejjaoui has been fascinated by Chinese movies, documentaries, and traditional culture since childhood. To her, China is a mysterious and beautiful country. She was intrigued by the Chinese language she saw in films. El Batoul Nejjaoui poses while experiencing a paper-cutting dress at the intangible cultural heritage exhibition center in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)   El Batoul Nejjaoui learns about a tiger-shaped doll at the intangible cultural heritage exhibition center in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)   El Batoul Nejjaoui makes tea for her friends in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)   El Batoul Nejjaoui takes an Arabic book about China, in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Aug. 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Peng) While studying at Mohammed V University in Morocco, Nejjaoui chose Chinese as her major and even came to China's capital Beijing as an exchange student. After graduation, Nejjaoui worked in Ningxia as a translator.…

  SHENZHEN, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) --Considered China's first homegrown high-cost, high-volume, high-quality stand-alone title, "Black Myth: Wukong" is deeply invested in the usage of cutting-edge motion capture technology to incorporate real-world martial arts into the game. Through the technology, the actions of professional stuntmen dressed in customized suits with reflective points are recorded from all angles, processed into virtual data and finally presented on in-game characters. Yin Kai works at a motion capture workshop in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)   Yin Kai works at a motion capture workshop in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Aug. 28, 2024. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian) Yin Kai, hailing from Shandong Province, is among the game's motion capture crew. He undertook the majority of the action work for the game's protagonist, a monkey character based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Inspired by TV stars such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the young Kong Fu enthusiast began practicing martial arts at the age of five and majored in martial arts performance at Shanghai University of Sport. To make the combat scenes more engaging both technically and artistically, Yin integrated a variety of elements from Chinese martial arts…

There are many delicious Chinese dishes, which is your Favourate Chinese Vegetables? When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You can't avoid eating Chinese vegetables because they are essential for Chinese food. Here we list and explain you the most common ones. Next time when you  eat with Chinese friends, you can even have a nice little conversation with them about what you are eating. Favourate Chinese Vegetables Qīng cài 青菜 - leafy and green vegetables This is a broad term to describe various leafy and green vegetables. Guangdong cuisine perhaps tops the country for its taste and variety, and qingcai top an average Guangdonger's diet. They must have one or two cai dishes in a day, and here the cai, they only mean qingcai.  Cài xīn 菜心 The handsome looking caixin is a typical and basic Guangdong veggie with little yellow flowers. It tastes refreshing and somewhat sweet. The sweetness comes from the stalks, so the noble "long-leg" Zengcheng caixin always tops the market at the cost 50% more than its peers. Bái cài 白菜 Known as bok choy or Chinese cabbage, it has two main kinds—xiao (small) baicai and da (big) baicai. The former is slender, small and dainty like a southern lady; The latter looks plump and…