Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Feb 11 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
A group of old photos reveal the New Year scenes in 1950s and 1960s.
Passage to China, a large-scale documentary series produced by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP), was released in Beijing on Feb 9.
Members of the Chinese community perform during the annual Lion Dance parade to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year along Somerset Street in Ottawa's Chinatown, Canada, on Feb 8, 2015.
Jincheng government made a commitment on Friday to thoroughly investigate the destruction of cultural relics and increase funding to protect them in an official response to an incident where an ancient village was demolished to make way for coal mining in Zezhou county in Jincheng, North China's Shanxi province.
The Ministry of Culture has published the results of an investigation into online companies that violate rules and laws.
The Shandong Cultural Exchange Festival opened in the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Jan 29.
The Lantern Festival, the first significant feast after Spring Festival that falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month, will be celebrated in Hong Kong on March 6.
The Fifth Cross-strait Chinese New Year Temple Fair will be held in Taichung, Taiwan from Feb 19 to Feb 22, the first five days of the lunar year.
As part of a series of events to help ring in the upcoming Chinese New Year, the annual temple fair at the Temple of Earth in Beijing will be taken abroad for the first. The inaugural event will be held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand on Feb 10, 2015.
China has applied for World Heritage status for the ancient rock carvings of the Huashan Mountain in Guangxi Province in 2016.
The sheep is one of the six domesticated animals. Ancient people regarded the sheep as a mild-tempered and auspicious animal.
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