For actor Sun Hao, home tastes like lamb paomo and hot rice noodles. The sound of Qin Opera helped shape his role as Gou Cunzhong in "The Lead" — a character distilled from 58 years of life. Watch China Daily's talk with Sun.
The annual Fuxi Ceremony, held on the Summer Solstice, brought together people from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese communities in Tianshui, Gansu province, to honor Fuxi, a legendary figure regarded as one of the early ancestors of Chinese civilization.
By Yan Dongjie and Liu Weifeng in Tianjin
Jun.22,2026
Soccer fever is set to sweep Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, this summer and autumn as the city's division of the 2026 Ningxia Super League opened on Sunday, kicking off a months-long lineup of sporting and cultural events.
At a themed event hosted by Peking University to encourage participants to observe and understand the real China in the new era, three international students shared with China Daily's Global Lens their experiences of living in China.
In the latest episode of Embracing Cultures, Gary Sigley, an Australian Sinologist talks on the essence of Confucianism. He points out that The Analects (Lunyu) outlines the bedrock of Chinese philosophy through concepts like zhong (loyalty), xiao (filial piety), and li (propriety). Together, these form a relational framework guiding how we interact with society.
Inside a greenhouse on the edge of the Kubuqi Desert in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, bananas, papayas and other plants grow in sharp contrast with the sand near the area.
For a group of international students living in Shanxi province, one aspect of life in China stands out above the rest: a pervasive sense of personal safety that they say requires no qualification or caveat.
The resonant tones of bronze gongs and singing bowls drifted through Kongtong Mountain in Pingliang, Northwest China’s Gansu province, on June 15, inviting visitors into a moment of stillness amid the bustle of modern life.
