A popular essay reframes the old folk notion of 'heavy yin' from ghostly possession into a description of chronically low, draining people — and offers five signs for spotting them. It is a window into how Chinese self-help blends folklore with emotional advice.
Tai Lihua, the deaf lead dancer of China's Thousand-Hand Guanyin, spent decades turning silence into movement. A viral retrospective traces her path from a childhood illness to a national stage and the quieter work that followed.
China's ginkgo season peaks in early November, the latest and most vivid burst of autumn colour. The tree is a living fossil, a cultural symbol and a perennial candidate for national tree.
Over one National Day holiday, Kaifeng's Wansuishan martial-arts park issued seven visitor-cap notices in four days while the province logged 1.83 million visits to its top attractions. The old imperial capital now sells spectacle and crowds as much as history.
A Zhihu explainer traces the disappearance of the intramuscular penicillin injection that once greeted nearly every sick child in Chinese county clinics, arguing that better drug formulations and modern medical infrastructure, not nostalgia, retired it.
China has published its 2027 public holiday schedule, restoring a nine-day Spring Festival break and making next year the lightest for make-up workdays in recent memory. The plan lands as workers weigh longer family time against the travel and spending crush it creates.
A viral Chinese food tip claims mashed potato makes red bean paste smoother, prompting a science writer to explain what the pastry actually is and why the shortcut works.
A viral set of etiquette rules for cash gifts at weddings and banquets is spreading online in China, reflecting growing fatigue with the financial and social burden of reciprocal giving. The guidelines cap ordinary colleagues at 200 yuan and encourage careful accounting of family gifts.
Documentary filmmaker Lu Qingyi went back to his home county to care for his dying father and stayed to care for his mother. His new book turns that year of caregiving into a meditation on family, memory and ordinary lives.
A Chinese science outlet argues that early November is not a dead season for fruit but the start of a second harvest peak, as citrus, fresh-picked apples and Lingnan varieties arrive together. It pairs that claim with a tasting roundup tied to a Double 11 shopping promotion.
China's insurance giant Ping An has launched a cultural IP, 'Ping An in Intangible Heritage,' partnering with a heritage-themed television program and opening the first of a planned series of events on October 30.
A Chinese essayist argues that heroes should be defined by excellence in a field, naming scientists like Qian Xuesen and Ma Weiming, rather than by fame or rescue drama. The piece reflects a broader Chinese appetite for essays that rethink admiration and everyday values.
A 2027 trial rulebook from the Chinese Go Association cuts komi from 3.75 to 3.5 stones, a small number with large consequences for the world's top board game. Players and fans are debating whether Black now gains an edge.
Wengyuan, a Hakka county in northern Guangdong, has Hakka walled villages, late-Tang poets and an agricultural base that leads its prefecture, yet most travelers cannot place it on a map. A local essay argues the place has been unfairly overlooked.
West Lake vinegar fish is one of Hangzhou's signature dishes, yet Chinese diners now treat it as a punchline. A Zhihu essay argues the recipe was built for conditions that no longer exist, so the fame outlived the fish.
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