Su Wan 🔥 96
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Chengdu girl who never got over the food. I chase festivals, night markets, old movies, all the little things nobody writes down. Come be nosy with me 🏮
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In Gansu's remote Subei Mongolian Autonomous County, a new regulation protects 28 sites of ancient rock art for the first time, giving wardens real legal power against desert wind, cracking cliffs, and tourists who carve into the stone.
Culture
甘肃肃北立法保护千年岩画
Gansu's Subei County Passes a Law to Protect Its Thousand Year Old Rock Art
HSK 5 · 5 min read
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A 1947 Chinese classic written by Eileen Chang got its world premiere in 4K at a restoration film festival in Suzhou, which also spotlighted the city's film history and the work of digital restoration.
Culture
苏州电影节：《太太万岁》4K修复版首映
Suzhou Film Festival: 4K Restoration of "Miss Protector" Premieres
HSK 4 · 3 min read
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On a crowded Sunday at the peak of Beijing's red-leaf season, a child rides the subway and a new "leaf-viewing line" with Grandpa to Fragrant Hills Park.
Culture
爷爷和我去香山看红叶
Grandpa and I Go to Xiangshan to See the Red Leaves
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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A grandmother takes her grandchild to a teahouse in Taizhou, Jiangsu, to try the city's famous morning tea: dried tofu shreds, crab roe soup buns, and fish soup noodles.
Culture
奶奶和我去泰州喝早茶
Grandma and I Go to Taizhou for Morning Tea
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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A father and child go out to buy a hot sweet potato from a street cart, then come back the next day with Mom to buy more, a small everyday treat the whole family shares.
Culture
我和爸爸买红薯
Dad and I Buy a Sweet Potato
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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China's National Cultural Heritage Administration announced a plan on October 20 to help more than 6,000 small and medium museums improve, with big museums mentoring small ones and quality exhibitions touring to grassroots towns.
Culture
国家文物局启动“中小博物馆提升计划”：大馆帮小馆，好展览进基层
Heritage Administration Launches Plan to Help Small Museums: Big Museums Support Small Ones
HSK 5 · 4 min read
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As Frost's Descent, the last solar term of autumn, arrives on October 23, a family in southern Fujian follows an old custom: buying a duck at the market, simmering ginger-and-jujube duck soup, and eating persimmons to stay warm through the coming winter.
Culture
霜降到了，我和妈妈买鸭子
Frost's Descent Arrives: Mom and I Buy a Duck
HSK 3 · 2 min read
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A grandmother teaches her granddaughter the old Chinese custom of pouring a guest's tea only seven-tenths full, and why that small restraint is itself a form of hospitality.
Culture
奶奶教我给客人倒茶
Grandma Teaches Me to Pour Tea for a Guest
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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A grandson visits Chaoyang's "Five Good" Intangible Heritage Fair with his grandfather during China's fourth ICH conservation conference, watching red-clay sculpture, incense-making, and a 24-troupe drum parade before visiting Murong Street's twin pagodas.
Culture
朝阳非遗大集：我和爷爷看泥塑
Chaoyang's Heritage Fair: Grandpa and I Watch Clay Sculpture
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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A new Blue Book shows online posts about China's intangible cultural heritage surged to 281 million in 2025 — and young people are increasingly becoming creators, not just viewers, of heritage content.
Culture
《非遗传播蓝皮书2026》发布：从“观众”到“创作者”
China's Intangible Heritage Blue Book: From Audience to Creators
HSK 5 · 4 min read
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On October 17, guests from 24 countries met in Fuzhou for a Maritime Silk Road friendly-cities dialogue, and between sessions they watched jasmine tea scenting, a Zhangzhou glove puppet show and Fuzhou paper cutting.
Culture
福州来了外国朋友：一起看福建非遗
Foreign Friends Come to Fuzhou: Together They See Fujian's Heritage Crafts
HSK 4 · 3 min read
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Macao marked its 19th Mazu Culture and Tourism Festival on October 13 with a seminar, a Fujian craft show, and a procession carrying the sea goddess's golden statue through the streets to bless fishermen and sailors.
Faith
澳门妈祖文化旅游节：金身巡游，祈福平安
Macao's Mazu Festival: The Golden Statue Takes to the Streets
HSK 4 · 5 min read
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In Inner Mongolia's Hinggan League, 58-year-old Li Zhaorigetu has sung the Mongolian storytelling art Uliger for over 40 years, teaching children for free and building a hall to keep old stories and instruments safe. Now young performers are picking it up too.
Culture
乌力格尔：草原上唱故事的人
Uliger: The Storytellers of the Grassland
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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China's national conference on major heritage sites met in Zhengzhou on October 13, reviewing five years of growth in archaeological-park protection and laying out stricter, tech-driven plans for the next five. Hangzhou's Liangzhu site offered a model for how local governments are being asked to coordinate planning, law and scientific monitoring.
Culture
全国大遗址工作会召开：“十五五”将迎更严保护格局
National Conference on Major Heritage Sites Opens: Stricter Protection Ahead for the 15th Five-Year Plan
Native · 5 min read
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Beijing's Prince Gong's Mansion Museum marks 100 years since painters Pu Xinyu and Zhang Daqian first met, with a loan exhibition of 48 works from ten institutions, including a painting the two artists completed together.
Culture
恭王府新展：溥心畬与张大千，“南张北溥”的百年情谊
A New Exhibition at Prince Gong's Mansion: Pu Xinyu and Zhang Daqian, a Century of "Southern Zhang, Northern Pu"
HSK 5 · 4 min read
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Grandpa takes the narrator to Yongqing Fang, an old street in Guangzhou brought back to life, to see century old arcade houses, a garden museum, and a Cantonese opera show.
Culture
爷爷和我去永庆坊
Grandpa and I Go to Yongqing Fang
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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For this year's National Day holiday, Su Wan's family rides a brand new boat route on Yangzhou's Grand Canal, stopping at an old dock and the historic He Garden as crowds flock to see China's oldest waterway.
Culture
国庆节，我们坐船看大运河
National Day: We Ride a Boat on the Grand Canal
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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A simple family trip to the store for pomegranates, a favorite autumn fruit in China, shared at home with Mom and a friend.
Culture
我和爸爸买石榴
Dad and I Buy Pomegranates
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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A family visits Beijing's China National Botanical Garden for its fifth annual chrysanthemum show, where yellow, white and red blooms fill the autumn garden.
Culture
我和爸爸妈妈去看菊花
Dad, Mom and I Go See the Chrysanthemums
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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On October 18, 2026, China marks the Double Ninth Festival, also known as Elderly Day. In this beginner story, a child and his father visit grandparents in a mountain village, climb the hill together, admire chrysanthemums, and share Chongyang cake.
Culture
重阳节：我和爸爸去看爷爷奶奶
Double Ninth Festival: Dad and I Visit Grandpa and Grandma
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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During China's National Day holiday, Beijing's Fenghuang Ridge hosted a heritage garden fair drawing on craft traditions from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei — lion dances, diabolo, stilt-walking and candy-blowing — while similar "heritage plus market" scenes unfolded in a converted grain warehouse in Zhengzhou and on a 1,400-year-old opera street in Jincheng, Shanxi.
Culture
舞狮、空竹、高跷：京津冀联动的国庆非遗游园会
Lion Dances, Diabolo, Stilts: A National Day Heritage Fair Spanning Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei
HSK 4 · 3 min read
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As Cold Dew arrives on October 8th, a child and grandmother mark the solar term at home with a bowl of warm black sesame paste, a seasonal custom meant to counter autumn's dryness.
Culture
寒露到了，奶奶给我做芝麻糊
Cold Dew Arrives: Grandma Makes Me Sesame Paste
HSK 3 · 2 min read
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A trip to the market for China's classic autumn fruit, the persimmon — a gentle beginner scene that also carries real detail about Hebei's persimmon orchards and the dried persimmon cakes made there.
Culture
我和妈妈买柿子
Mom and I Buy Persimmons
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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After a record-slow opening day, China's National Day holiday box office recovered past 500 million yuan by October 3, led by the mystery thriller The Detective's Traces.
Culture
国庆档票房破5亿：《神探之痕迹》暂列第一
National Day Box Office Tops 500 Million Yuan: The Detective's Traces Leads
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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Before dawn on October 1st, a child and her family line up with their reserved tickets to watch soldiers raise the flag over Tiananmen Square — an HSK3 story about an early morning, a quiet crowd, and Beijing breakfast afterward.
Culture
国庆节，我们去看升旗
National Day: We Go Watch the Flag-Raising
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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A beginner-level (HSK2) family story: two sisters visit Niushou Mountain near Nanjing during the National Day holiday to see the Buddha parietal bone relic, on display for the last time this year.
Faith
国庆假期，我和姐姐去牛首山看舍利
National Day Holiday: My Sister and I Go to Niushou Mountain to See the Relic
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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On the first day of National Day holiday, a family visits Beijing's National Museum, free but booked online in advance, and sees a new exhibition of 200+ ancient relics from Yuncheng, Shanxi.
Culture
国庆节，我们去国家博物馆
National Day: We Go to the National Museum
HSK 3 · 2 min read
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Two days before China's National Day, a child and her mother visit the giant "Blessing the Motherland" flower basket on Tiananmen Square and the ten flower beds along Chang'an Avenue, a simple everyday look at how Beijing dresses up for October 1st.
Culture
国庆节要到了，我和妈妈去看花篮
National Day Is Coming: Mom and I Go See the Flower Basket
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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A three year touring exhibition pairing Chinese intangible heritage crafts with contemporary design closed its final stop in London on September 27, after stops in Paris and Milan, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to Somerset House.
Culture
"新生万物"伦敦站落幕：中国非遗走进萨默塞特宫
"Rebirth of All Things" Closes in London: Chinese Heritage Crafts Come to Somerset House
HSK 5 · 4 min read
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A beginner's story about a father and child who buy a small national flag before China's National Day, hang it on their door, and put it away safely afterward to use again next year.
Culture
国庆节到了，我和爸爸买国旗
National Day Is Here: Dad and I Buy a Flag
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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An eight year old girl in Shandong gets ready to visit the Confucius Temple in Qufu with her grandfather for the Confucius Sacrifice Ceremony, marking Confucius's 2577th birthday and the opening of the ten day Confucius Culture Festival on September 28, 2026.
Faith
我和爷爷去曲阜看祭孔大典
Grandpa and I Go to Qufu to See the Confucius Ceremony
HSK 3 · 2 min read
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A major new exhibition marking the Long March's 90th anniversary has opened at Beijing's Military Museum, showing 875 relics and 186 documents — including personal items left by Deng Ping, the highest-ranking Red Army officer to die during the march.
Culture
长征胜利90周年：军博新展，300多件文物第一次亮相
90 Years After the Long March's Victory: A New Exhibition at Beijing's Military Museum Puts Over 300 Relics on Public View for the First Time
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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China's heritage authority unveiled new finds from three overseas digs -- twin sacred lakes at Egypt's Montu Temple, a public-facing site in Tunisia, and a medieval city in Kyrgyzstan -- as Chinese archaeology keeps 'going global.'
Culture
卢克索的"双圣湖"：中国考古队的海外新发现
Twin Sacred Lakes at Luxor: Chinese Archaeologists' Find Abroad
HSK 5 · 4 min read
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In Weifang, an old Mid-Autumn custom lives on: families shape dough and dates into moon-shaped "yue'er" bread, and children recite old rhymes to the moon.
Culture
奶奶做“月儿”
Grandma Makes "Moon Bread"
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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With Mid-Autumn Festival two days away, a Beijing family heads to the historic Lugou (Marco Polo) Bridge for this year's "Lugou Xiaoyue" moon-viewing festival — poetry, old photos, mooncakes, and a very old, very famous bridge.
Culture
我和奶奶去卢沟桥看月亮
Grandma and I Go to Lugou Bridge to Watch the Moon
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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Beijing opened its 2026 Culture Forum this week, drawing about 600 guests from China and abroad to discuss heritage protection at sites from the Central Axis to the Grand Canal, as the city was named "World Capital of Architecture."
Culture
2026北京文化论坛开幕：从中轴线到大运河，一场文明互鉴的对话
The 2026 Beijing Culture Forum Opens: From the Central Axis to the Grand Canal, a Dialogue Among Civilizations
Native · 5 min read
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In Zhanqi, an old village in Anhui, families spend the nights before Mid-Autumn Festival handcrafting bamboo-and-paper fish lanterns. A grandfather takes his grandchild to watch the night parade light up the village lanes.
Culture
我和爷爷去看鱼灯
Grandpa and I Go See the Fish Lanterns
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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Five days before Mid-Autumn Festival, a girl and her mom shop for pomelos — and learn why the round, thick-skinned fruit means reunion, good fortune, and a homemade hat.
Culture
中秋快到了，我们去买柚子
Mid-Autumn Is Near: We Go Buy Pomelos
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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A child's grandmother explains China's Farmers' Harvest Festival -- created in 2018 and always held on the Autumn Equinox -- before the two visit a lively village market full of fresh produce.
Culture
秋分到了：我和奶奶去看丰收节
Autumn Equinox Arrives: Grandma and I Go See the Harvest Festival
HSK 3 · 4 min read
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A Tang-dynasty bodhisattva torso from the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes is back in China after the US returned 64 relics, artworks and fossils this week — but the statue's head, severed by antique dealers a century ago, is still missing.
Culture
流失百年，天龙山菩萨躯干“回家”：美国归还中国64件文物
A Century Adrift, Home at Last (Minus a Head): the US Returns 64 Artifacts to China, Including a Tianlong Mountain Bodhisattva
HSK 5 · 5 min read
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A typhoon-driven cool snap pushed osmanthus into early bloom across Guilin, Changsha and Liuyang this September -- while Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai wait for warmer air to cool down to the flower's narrow 20-22C window, likely not until National Day.
Culture
南方早开，江浙推迟：今年的桂花为什么不一样
Blooming Out of Sync: Why This Year's Osmanthus Opened Early in the South and Late by the Yangtze
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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The China Philharmonic Orchestra unveiled its 2026-2027 season on September 15, spanning 19 programs from Baroque to contemporary music, with a Shostakovich symphony cycle, the tenth anniversary of a Chen Qigang premiere, and two young prize-winning pianists opening and closing the season.
Culture
中国爱乐乐团公布新乐季：19套曲目，跨越四百年
China Philharmonic Announces New Season: 19 Programs Across Four Centuries
HSK 5 · 5 min read
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Beijing's Xicheng District, the historic birthplace of Peking opera, opened its 2026 Opera Culture Season this month, with free film screenings and performances at the century-old Huguang Guildhall running through November.
Culture
京剧文化季来了：周末，我和爷爷去湖广会馆看戏
Beijing Opera Culture Season Begins: A Weekend Show at Huguang Guildhall with Grandpa
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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A simple family scene: a child and mother buy a bag of chestnuts, a favorite autumn snack in China, and share them with family and a friend.
Culture
我和妈妈买栗子
Mom and I Buy Chestnuts
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, held its fourth annual "City Nadam" on September 12-13, bringing wrestling, archery, and multi-ethnic folk games into town for herders who have moved from the grassland into city life.
Culture
锡林浩特的"城市那达慕"：草原节日搬进了邻里
Xilinhot's "City Nadam": A Grassland Festival Moves Into the Neighborhood
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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Five months apart, two orchestras carried the same Chinese melody across the Atlantic, from Brasília to São Paulo, as China and Brazil's 2026 Culture Year turned into a musical dialogue.
Culture
紫竹调飞越大西洋："中巴文化年"里的两场音乐会
A Purple Bamboo Tune Crosses the Atlantic: Two Concerts in the China-Brazil Culture Year
Native · 4 min read
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At Yangcheng Lake, China's most famous hairy crabs will open for harvest on September 28 this year — three days after Mid-Autumn Festival — because a hot summer slowed their molting. A family dinner-table story about patience, price, and how to pick a good crab.
Culture
今年的螃蟹，要等一等
This Year's Crabs Are Making Us Wait
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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On the eve of China's 42nd Teachers' Day (September 10), a class makes cards and buys flowers for their teacher -- with the holiday's 1985 origins, this year's official theme, and how many teachers there are nationwide.
Culture
教师节，我们给老师送花
Teachers' Day: We Give Flowers to Our Teacher
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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A second survey of Helan Mountain's ancient rock art has turned up more than 500 new images, including a rare four-horse chariot carving found half-buried near Yinchuan, Ningxia.
Culture
贺兰山岩画新发现：五百余幅，一幅“四马拉车”全国罕见
Helan Mountain Rock Art: 500 New Images Found, a 'Four-Horse Cart' Rare Nationwide
Native · 5 min read
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In Huihui Village, Sanya, a Hui Muslim family marks Jumah, Friday's midday prayer: washing, a walk to a mosque facing west toward Mecca, and beef noodles shared at home.
Faith
星期五，爸爸去清真寺
On Friday, Dad Goes to the Mosque
HSK 2 · 3 min read
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A visit to Grandma's house near Mount Tai turns up a small protective stone, "Taishan Shigandang" — a centuries-old folk custom, now national intangible heritage, at the center of a cross-strait culture week in Tai'an.
Faith
奶奶家墙角的石头
The Stone at Grandma's Wall Corner
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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September 7 marks White Dew, one of China's 24 solar terms. In Fuzhou, the old custom is to eat longan — sweetened into a childhood-favorite porridge — while other regions mark the day with rice wine or autumn tea.
Culture
白露到了，福州人吃龙眼粥
White Dew Arrives: In Fuzhou, a Bowl of Longan Porridge
HSK 3 · 3 min read
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The 2026 China Cultural Tourism Industry Expo opened in Tianjin on September 3, drawing 2,500+ exhibitors from 20 countries. Officials and companies showcased immersive tech -- holograms, robots, spatial sound -- reshaping how visitors experience Chinese culture and tourism.
Culture
天津文旅博览会开幕：从“看展览”到“沉浸式体验”
Tianjin Cultural Tourism Expo Opens: From 'Viewing an Exhibit' to 'Immersive Experience'
HSK 5 · 5 min read
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China's summer box-office phenomenon "Eight Immortals!" reimagines the classic Daoist legend as the story of eight flawed mortals before they became gods. On September 4 it opens in Belgium and Luxembourg, its fourth stop abroad since crossing 1.85 billion yuan at home.
Culture
《八仙！》“过海”记：动画黑马明天登陆比利时
'Eight Immortals!': China's Animated Hit 'Crosses the Sea' to Belgium Tomorrow
HSK 4 · 4 min read
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A month after "Jingdezhen's Handicraft Porcelain Heritage" joined the UNESCO World Heritage List, tourism bookings and pottery-class searches have surged, and experts gathered in the city to plan how it turns global recognition into lasting cultural exchange.
Culture
景德镇申遗满月：瓷都的新故事
One Month After Jingdezhen's UNESCO Listing: A New Chapter for the Porcelain Capital
HSK 5 · 5 min read
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A child and dad go to a shop, pick out red hawthorn berries, and buy tanghulu — the classic sugar-coated snack — to share with mom at home.
Culture
我和爸爸买糖葫芦
Dad and I Buy Candied Hawthorn
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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On a hot August afternoon, a family walks to the shop for apples, washes and shares them at home, and finds a little happiness in a very ordinary fruit.
Culture
一家人和苹果
A Family and Some Apples
HSK 2 · 2 min read
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It's move-in week at Chinese universities. A first-time student packs two suitcases, says goodbye to her parents, meets her roommates, and learns that military training starts in a few days.
Culture
我去上大学了
I'm Off to University
HSK 3 · 4 min read
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A simple morning scene: a father and child visit their neighborhood breakfast stall in China to buy steamed buns (baozi) and soy milk (doujiang) — one of the country's most common breakfast pairings.
Culture
早上，我和爸爸去买包子
In the Morning, Dad and I Go Buy Baozi
HSK 1 · 2 min read
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Every evening after dinner, this writer's grandmother puts on her dancing shoes and heads to the park square to dance with her friends — a small, happy scene repeated across China every night.
Culture
晚饭后，奶奶去公园跳舞
After Dinner, Grandma Goes to the Park to Dance
HSK 2 · 3 min read
