The 2025 Spring Festival travel rush, or chunyun, began on Jan 14 and will continue through Feb 22. This year's Spring ...

Eve, Han Ru, who captains a Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train crew, decorates her train carriages with spring calligraphy ...

Like him, millions of people display Spring Festival couplets, a customary practice and tradition for celebrating the grand ...

According to the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2025 is the Year of the Snake; I’ve already spotted plenty of brands drawing scaly inspiration from the mysterious and oft-misunderstood creature ...

You could also hang an upside-down Fu Chinese character on the door to hope for a stream of good fortune in the coming year. There's a common Chinese superstition that says if you start the year with ...

Trump had invited Chinese President Xi Jinping, among other leaders - a break with tradition given foreign leaders traditionally do not attend US presidential inaugurations. China has said it ...

Calligraphers were organized to visit the countryside, residential communities, construction sites, and enterprises, to write Spring Festival Couplets and Chinese character "福 (Fu)", which means ...

Web users recently noticed that the program was randomly displaying Chinese characters, as well as code that appeared to be written in several other languages. Most people will only pay attention ...

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other ...

Converts from Chinese characters to pinyin, between simplified and traditional, and does word segmentation. A webapp to visualize relationships among Chinese characters and to see example sentences ...

The Chinese character on the envelope, “hok,” means good luck. Photo by Mae Mu on Unsplash Much like giving ang bao during Chinese New Year, some people also give food as a gesture of goodwill.

“I’m your Chinese spy,” the comment said, “give me all your data.” Claire Fu covers China with a focus on business and social issues in the country. She is based in Seoul. More about ...