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While Cultural Keys can be considered your go-to for a variety of traditional Chinese culture activities, there are of course plenty of other fun and interesting cultural events happening around the capital every month!
Here’s our round-up of activities connected with Chinese culture and history for April in Beijing! Continue reading “Culture Events in Beijing – April 2023”
April 5th marks Tomb Sweeping Day in China, a day to both honour ancestors and celebrate the arrival of spring. But this is only one of the festivals that happen in China in April. What other festivals are coming up this month?
Read on to find out!
Continue reading “Noteworthy Dates in the Chinese Calendar – April 2023 Edition”
It might be the Year of the Rabbit but at Cultural Keys we’ve been inspired by our two recent rescue dogs, Teddy and Mr. Percy, to look in more detail at the dog in Chinese history, art and legend. Each month we’ll look at a different aspect of the dog in traditional Chinese culture as well as introduce you to a few special pups who need your help!
This week we’ll look at some paintings of dogs that were created over the last 2000 or so years.
This past week we visited the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) for the exhibition ‘Beauty in Greatness Through Details’. The theme is small artworks (a maximum of 60cm tall or wide), and the museum clearly has no shortage of them, as the exhibition includes almost a thousand works of art over five floors of the museum! Exhibits are mostly paintings, but also include woodcuts and sculptures.
Read on to find out more about the exhibition!
Continue reading “REVIEW: ‘Beauty in Greatness Through Details’ – Exhibition at NAMOC Beijing”
March is the month when Beijing starts to warm up and spring arrives! What else is happening? Of course it’s Women’s Day on March 8th, but there are two more traditional events of note this month too – ‘Insects Awakening’ and Guanyin’s birthday.
Read on to find out more about these two noteworthy dates in March!
Continue reading “Noteworthy Dates in the Chinese Calendar – March 2023 Edition!”