Just in time for the National Day on October 1st, the flower decorations like here on Tiananmen Square cannot be missing. The color of the flowers is of course symbolically significant. Red stands for happiness and joy, and yellow stands for power. Thus, yellow has long been a color that only emperors in China were […]
October 1st marks the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Hong Kong’s citizens are being reminded of this as well. The Hong Qi, the Chinese national flag, and the flag of the metropolis are lining the streets this week.
China went wine-producing. And the result looks really tasty. In the province of Hebei, which surrounds Beijing, this vintner is preparing for the harvest. China’s vintners are already cultivating 855,000 hectares with vines. By now, the country is even surpassing France with 850,000 hectares. It is only behind Spain with 960,000 hectares.
Two bugs on the moon: What looks like two oversized insects are blue shining drones. These flying objects are putting on a show in Yantai in the province of Shandong to mark the Moon Festival. One of the shapes they formed was a bridge in the night sky. The moon festival was celebrated on Tuesday […]
The Chinese Moon Festival also calls for the right outfit. These ladies in a Beijing park dressed up as the moon goddess Cháng’é (嫦娥) on their day off. According to Chinese mythology, the moon goddess lives, well, on the moon, always with the Jade Rabbit (玉兔, yùtù) by her side. Both characters, by the way, […]
These two children from Lincheng baked moon cakes for the Chinese Moon Festival. With sweet or savory fillings, they are eaten as dessert when the families watch the full moon together. One legend is not only about love, but also about climate change: according to this legend, a terrible threat terrified the world. Ten suns […]
A Long March 7 rocket stands ready at the Wenchang Spaceport on the Island of Hainan. It is to carry an unmanned Tianzhou cargo spacecraft into orbit, where it will dock with the Tiangong space station. This is the second cargo mission to Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”). Meanwhile, in space, the Shenzhou-12 manned spacecraft has detached […]
Dancing with the fluffy “conspecifics”: The panda robot Youyou shows off its agility alongside larger-than-life plush bears. Youyou was developed by the Hangzhou-based company Youbixuan and was presented at the World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The annual Han Kuang exercises have been underway in Taiwan since the weekend. For the 37th time since 1984, the island nation is rehearsing a military emergency. The main aim is to simulate possible war scenarios as realistically as possible. That’s why during the five-day exercises, fighter jets land on roads, and tanks roll through […]