Culture & Festivals

Jade Buddha Temple is a working Buddhist monastery in central Shanghai, best visited as a quiet religious...

Shanghai’s City God Temple is an active Daoist temple inside the busy Yu Garden commercial district....

The Mogao Caves visit begins at the Digital Exhibition Center outside Dunhuang, not at the cliff itself....

Longmen Grottoes stretches along both banks of the Yi River south of central Luoyang. A first visit should...

The Leshan Giant Buddha can be seen in two different ways: from the protected hillside complex around...

Chinese etiquette is not one national script. Expectations vary by region, generation, venue and how...

Wuhou Shrine in Chengdu brings several strands of Three Kingdoms history into one visit: the memorial...

Chinese tea culture is not one fixed ceremony. It includes growing and processing traditions, everyday...

Xintiandi is a pedestrian district in central Shanghai where preserved shikumen-style lanes sit beside...

The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar system that tracks both the moon’s phases and the sun’s...

Chinese New Year 2026 falls on Tuesday, February 17, and it opens the Year of the Horse. In mainland...

The Shanghai French Concession is a leafy, walkable neighborhood of 1920s villas, plane-tree tunnels,...

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