Every year at this time, cabbages are piled up in the displays and storerooms of Chinese traders. Older people, in particular, stock up by the kilo for the winter. For many, the vegetables evoke memories of the past – of a time that was harder but easier in some respects.
While his peers complain about back problems, Le Mingchao really challenges his body. For a few years now, the 78-year-old has been a yoga instructor in Hangzhou and a master of the effective art of knotted legs. With his hobby, he follows the trend: yoga is booming, especially in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
Anyone who knows Beijing knows that autumn is the most beautiful season in the capital city, with bright blue skies and reddish leaves. Unfortunately, it is very short. Often only a few weeks pass between tropical nights and frosty days. All the more numerous Beijingers flock to the green spaces these days, like here in […]
A girl from Shenyang in the northeastern province of Liaoning dressed up as a Hulk with pumpkin braids for Halloween. In China, this year’s celebration was themed around the pandemic. Social media videos show people dressed up as Batman and zombies lining up for the Covid test before the Halloween party. One young man dressed […]
The wheel of history continues to turn inexorably, bringing with it constant change. But despite all the changes the metropolis of Hong Kong experienced in recent years, there are still things that never seem to change. Here, an elderly man practices Tai Chi near Victoria Harbour.
In daylight, the backdrop of the “Land Of Drama” looks as if someone moved the set of Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” to a Chinese future. When darkness falls, the theater mega-complex located in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou transforms into a light spectacle illuminated by colorful LEDs. On 21 […]
Anyone who doesn’t bury themselves in the silt very quickly ends up in a basket. In Tangdaowan, on the west coast of Qingdao, hundreds of residents gathered off the coast. They collect oysters, shrimp, and crabs. But the seafood hunt has to be fast before the sea washes over everything after a few hours.
For once, not a military installation on an island in the South China Sea, like the ones China recently built several times, but – surprise, surprise – a vacation resort. Wuzhizhou is the name of the idyll off the coast of Sanya in Hainan. Chinese media already compare it to the Maldives, which Chinese tourists […]
Wedding in white? No, in red! At this mass ceremony in the western Chinese city of Zhongyi, dozens of couples got married at the same time. Incidentally, the occasion for the traditional ritual was not only one of the Chinese Valentine’s Days, because the date 5/20 (wǔ èr líng) sounds remotely like “I love you” […]
There is no such thing as a harvest festival in China. Nevertheless, farmers in the province of Shandong, China’s breadbasket, still celebrate the fall harvest in their own way: This farmer proudly whirls the seeds through the air to show how rich his harvest is this season.