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Harbin Ice-Snow World - China

(250129) -- HARBIN, Jan. 29, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 18, 2025 shows people skating in Dingxiang Park in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. As the 9th Asian Winter Games (AWG) approaching, Harbin, known for its stunning ice sculptures and deep-rooted winter sports culture, is brimming with anticipation. As the city's iconic landmark, the Harbin Ice-Snow World, with this year's edition, the largest in its history, boasts 1 million square meters. The park shares its theme this year with the upcoming AWG to be held in Harbin: Dream of Winter, Love Among Asia. Harbin, which successfully hosted the 3rd AWG in 1996, is once again stepping onto the world stage. The whole city is under an upgrade to provide better services for winter sports lovers and tourists. Photo by Zhang Tao/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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ChineseToday | Art rooted in paddy fields: Yangxi Opera artists in SW China's Chongqing

(240524) -- CHONGQING, May 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yangxi Opera artist Leng Dingxiang (1st L) walks out of a rice field in Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 16, 2024. In Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township in Youyang, there is a group of opera artists consisting of local farmers of an average age of nearly 70, who perform the ancient Yangxi Opera on the courtyards and dams as the stage, and among the paddy fields, mountains and forests as their background in the village about 1,000 meters above sea level surrounded by mountains and waters. Around the time of May, the white-haired opera troupe members plant rice seedlings in the paddy fields as their routine work, when the day's work draws to a close, Chen Yongxia, one of the leading artists, is heard singing Yangxi Opera in his resonant voice that echos in the mountains. After washing off the soil on their bodies and putting away farming tools, the artists sit around a sweet c

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ChineseToday | Art rooted in paddy fields: Yangxi Opera artists in SW China's Chongqing

(240524) -- CHONGQING, May 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yangxi Opera artists Chen Yongxia (L) and Leng Dingxiang rehearse a verse of Yangxi Opera in Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 16, 2024. In Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township in Youyang, there is a group of opera artists consisting of local farmers of an average age of nearly 70, who perform the ancient Yangxi Opera on the courtyards and dams as the stage, and among the paddy fields, mountains and forests as their background in the village about 1,000 meters above sea level surrounded by mountains and waters. Around the time of May, the white-haired opera troupe members plant rice seedlings in the paddy fields as their routine work, when the day's work draws to a close, Chen Yongxia, one of the leading artists, is heard singing Yangxi Opera in his resonant voice that echos in the mountains. After washing off the soil on their bodies and putting away farming tools, the artists

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ChineseToday | Art rooted in paddy fields: Yangxi Opera artists in SW China's Chongqing

(240524) -- CHONGQING, May 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yangxi Opera artists Chen Yongxia (C) and Leng Dingxiang (1st R) rehearse a verse of Yangxi Opera in Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 16, 2024. In Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township in Youyang, there is a group of opera artists consisting of local farmers of an average age of nearly 70, who perform the ancient Yangxi Opera on the courtyards and dams as the stage, and among the paddy fields, mountains and forests as their background in the village about 1,000 meters above sea level surrounded by mountains and waters. Around the time of May, the white-haired opera troupe members plant rice seedlings in the paddy fields as their routine work, when the day's work draws to a close, Chen Yongxia, one of the leading artists, is heard singing Yangxi Opera in his resonant voice that echos in the mountains. After washing off the soil on their bodies and putting away farming tools, the

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ChineseToday | Art rooted in paddy fields: Yangxi Opera artists in SW China's Chongqing

(240524) -- CHONGQING, May 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yangxi Opera artist Leng Dingxiang (R) talks with a fellow artist in Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 16, 2024. In Qingquan Village of Tonggu Township in Youyang, there is a group of opera artists consisting of local farmers of an average age of nearly 70, who perform the ancient Yangxi Opera on the courtyards and dams as the stage, and among the paddy fields, mountains and forests as their background in the village about 1,000 meters above sea level surrounded by mountains and waters. Around the time of May, the white-haired opera troupe members plant rice seedlings in the paddy fields as their routine work, when the day's work draws to a close, Chen Yongxia, one of the leading artists, is heard singing Yangxi Opera in his resonant voice that echos in the mountains. After washing off the soil on their bodies and putting away farming tools, the artists sit around a sweet cinn

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Xinhua Headlines: Decade-long eco-conservation regreens China's old industrial base

(220819) -- SHENYANG, Aug. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 7, 2019 shows a view of the Dingxiang ecological scenic area in Panjin City of northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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