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  • Pipa player promotes traditional Chinese music through livestream

    Pipa player promotes traditional Chinese music through livestream

    After graduating from Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, Wei Xiaodie, a young pipa artist, joined an orchestra. She later quit and became a livestream anchor to better promote traditional Chinese music.

    March 23, 2023

  • Toymakers look to the past to build business

    Toymakers look to the past to build business

    Chinese companies making toy bricks are turning to traditional building methods to compete with international rivals such as Lego.

    September 29, 2022

  • Artist creates precious canal memoirs on canvas

    Artist creates precious canal memoirs on canvas

    Painting is just another way of keeping a diary, so said Spanish artist Pablo Picasso whose irrepressible genius spanned nine decades. Wu Liren has been maintaining such a "diary" of the Grand Canal for more than 40 years.

    August 26, 2022

  • Wang Xizhi

    Wang Xizhi

    Wang Xizhi (303-361), also known as Yishao, was born in Linyi, Shandong province, and later moved to Shaoxing, Zhejiang province.

    May 10, 2023

  • Lu Xun

    Lu Xun

    He was the leading figure of the modern Chinese literature, an ideologist, and one of the initiators of the New Culture Movement.

    May 10, 2023

  • ​Xu Zhimo

    ​Xu Zhimo

    ​Xu Zhimo a native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was a famous modern poet of the Crescent Moon School, prose writer.

    May 10, 2023

  • Jin Yong

    Jin Yong

    Jin Yong(1924-), Great Bauhinia Medalist, OBE (Order of the British Empire) was the pen name of Zha Liangyong (Louis Cha Leung-yung).

    May 10, 2023

  • ​Lu You

    ​Lu You

    Lu You (1125-1210), courtesy name Wuguan, referred to himself as Fang Weng (an liberated old man). Born in Yuezhou Shanyin (Current Shaoxing of Zhejiang), he was a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty.

    May 10, 2023