BRITAIN-LONDON-CHINESE CROSSTALK-XIANGSHENG

BRITAIN-LONDON-CHINESE CROSSTALK-XIANGSHENG

(240428) -- LONDON, April 28, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Meng Hetang (R) and Zhou Jiuliang perform Xiangsheng, or crosstalk comedy in London, Britain, April 27, 2024. Thunderous laughter and applause almost blew off the roof of an auditorium in London's ExCeL Exhibition Centre on Saturday night, when a punchline by Guo Degang, a popular Chinese traditional crosstalk comedian, landed with an audience of thousands. Along with Guo and his partner Yu Qian, a handful of comedians from the De Yun She Performance Group performed Xiangsheng, or crosstalk comedy, with both jokes about life anecdotes and traditional crosstalk episodes. TO GO WITH "Popular Chinese crosstalk comedians bring laughter, cultural charisma to London" (Xinhua/Wu Lu)

#CHINA-BEGINNING OF SUMMER-FIELD WORK (CN)

#CHINA-BEGINNING OF SUMMER-FIELD WORK (CN)

(230506) -- XIANJU, May 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer works in a field in Hetang Village, Taizhou City of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 6, 2023. Chinese farmers are busy with field works during "Lixia", the seventh solar term on the Chinese lunar calendar that marks the beginning of summer. (Photo by Wang Huabin/Xinhua)

#CHINA-BEGINNING OF SUMMER-FIELD WORK (CN)

#CHINA-BEGINNING OF SUMMER-FIELD WORK (CN)

(230506) -- XIANJU, May 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer works in a field in Hetang Village, Taizhou City of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 6, 2023. Chinese farmers are busy with field works during "Lixia", the seventh solar term on the Chinese lunar calendar that marks the beginning of summer. (Photo by Wang Huabin/Xinhua)