Lego is also celebrating the Year of the Rabbit. The Danish toy manufacturer has been presenting Chinese New Year for years – and naturally has its sights set on Chinese customers. The People’s Republic is now the most important sales market, with almost half of the 850 Lego stores worldwide located there. But these sets […]
“The Horse with Eye Blinders” is the title of the first solo exhibition by Chinese painter and photographer Xinyi Cheng (31) at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. She is the winner of the Baloise Art Prize 2019. Originally, the exhibition was to open at the beginning of December. Now a Covid alternative is online.
Internet star and beer fast drinker Hebei Pangzai has his eye on the biggest beer festival in the world. He would like to attend Oktoberfest this year and is looking for sponsors, as the Youtuber wrote on Twitter. Hebei Pangzai (meaning “Hebei fatty”) gained fame with the so-called beer tornado – a drinking technique in […]
With around 5,300 members (as of 2010), the Hezhen from Heilongjiang Province are one of China’s smallest officially recognized ethnic minorities. Starting at the end of December, they celebrate the beginning of the fishing season and the preparation for the New Year with feasts and games, as shown in this back-to-back tug-of-war. Among other things, […]
The Chinese Long March-2D carrier rocket launched 14 satellites into Earth orbit on Sunday. The rocket launched at 11:14 a.m. from the Taiyuan Spaceport in the province of Shanxi. On board, among others: the observation satellites Qilu-2 and Qilu-3.
China is the land of food! So it’s no surprise that the love of culinary delights is also influencing the Chinese internet landscape and is particularly flourishing in the trendy area of live-streaming. Live broadcasts of leisure and professional foodies enjoying their meals are a real click magnet on China’s video platforms. Originally, the trend […]
The 20,000 workers at the Xinhe factories in Pingdu, Shandong, do not have to grasp at the last straw. Their native province, where Confucius also came from, produces an abundance of wheat and barley. Their straw, considered dirt in the great philosopher’s time, is now raw material for woven crafts. The baskets and bags in […]