Art exhibitions, live shows mark Party s anniversary By LIN QI and CHEN NAN | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-02 07:45 Share CLOSE Spring Festival, by teachers and students at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, is one of many artworks on show at the National Museum of China in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]
Numerous events celebrate 100 years of change and progress
In 1965, a total of 114 life-size sculptures were unveiled at the former mansion of a landlord in Dayi county, Sichuan province.
Visitors were captivated by the works, which featured men and women of all ages－most of them peasants－in a variety of poses and sporting different facial expressions.
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A series of picture books gives children and adults a taste of traditional culture by exploring the history and origin of popular Chinese dishes in a new and contemporary way, Mei Jia reports.
As Emeril Lagasse, the US celebrity chef, once noted: To really get to know a place and its people, you ve got to eat the food. Food serves as a key to every culture and, in China, glutinous rice paste, moon cake, spring roll, eight-treasured rice congee, Yangzhou-styled fried rice and dried persimmon are delicacies commonly seen on dinner tables across the country. To Sichuan Fine Arts Institute associate professor Mou Aili, they are her inspiration for a series of picture books that she hopes will pass Chinese culture and the wisdom it involves on to future generations .
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