Normally, the life of a soldier is serious and dreary. But not so during Chinese New Year. This People’s Liberation Army squad in Jiuquan can no longer hold back their excitement – and has swapped their weapons for poems, lanterns and banners.
Children climb around on a frozen waterfall near the village of Huyu near Beijing. This, too, may be one of the winter sports activities that China hopes to have brought to the masses in the years leading up to the Winter Games. Or maybe Beijingers just realized on their own how much fun can be […]
According to official sources, 346 million Chinese have taken part in winter sports over the past six years. That would be one in four Chinese citizens. This figure raises doubts about whether “winter sports” actually means sports. The figure would be more realistic if snowball fights (or intensive snow shoveling?) were also considered winter sports.
New Chinese tennis hope: 19-year-old Zheng Qinwen celebrated her first victory in a Grand Slam tournament on Monday night. She defeated Belarusian Alyaksandra Sasnovich in three sets at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Reaching the second round earns Zheng prize money of $140,000, well over double what she has earned so far in her career. […]
Part of the Harbin Snow Festival is the sculpture competition. The pieces are not as huge as the professionally built ice palaces of the main attraction. Instead, they are lovingly cut and scraped by hand from snow blocks. But will the shark eat up the competition? The large smooth surfaces are rather easy to make […]
High-speed trains swarm out of this railroad depot in Chengdu. From January 17, the railroad company expects the start of the travel wave before the Spring Festival. Technicians have specially rechecked all trains to make sure there are no technical problems. In China, delays and cancellations are very rare despite the enormous amount of passengers.
The ceramic art exhibition “Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale” will open in Jingdezhen at the end of February. Some visitors were allowed to visit the exhibition rooms earlier. The exhibition displays 206 ceramic artworks from all over the world. Jingdezhen is considered China’s “porcelain capital”. As early as 1,000 years ago, Chinese rulers had their […]
Quickly hang another red lantern here: This conductor decorates the express train from Guiyang to Chengdu. The occasion was the traditional Laba festival, which was celebrated yesterday, Monday. This day is dedicated to the harvest of the past year. An important part is the consumption of Laba oatmeal (腊八粥, làbāzhōu). Such millet oatmeal is not […]
Xie Xiaozhen, a 76-year-old US Chinese grandmother who fought off a racist attack, is being celebrated online for her courage – and is donating money raised for her to the US Asian community to fund anti-racism projects. According to media reports, Xie was attacked by a man in San Francisco last week. The 76-year-old defended […]
Can you spot the CM-34 tank in this picture? As every year, the Taiwanese army is holding a military exercise before the Chinese New Year in case of an invasion. In view of increasing tensions with the People’s Republic, the professional soldiers and conscripts are taking their maneuvers particularly seriously this time.