Nestled in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Jiaohe Ruins are the best-preserved, longest-lasting and largest relics of a clay-built city in the world.
In recent years, the rapid growth of China's tourism sector has injected new vitality into the promotion, inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage.
Originating in China thousands of years ago, the Dragon Boat Festival, which commemorates the Chinese patriotic poet Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC) on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, has now become a national holiday.
A fashion show featuring traditional Tibetan clothing is held in Gyalze county in the Tibet autonomous region on Sept 17, 2023, combining traditional Tibetan clothing and modern design.
Stylish, colorful, with intricate embroidery, the ever-evolving Tibetan costume is a heritage of its rich culture, and more importantly, a witness to the change of the times.
Saddlemaking of this sort is a form of local intangible cultural heritage in this part of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. In recent decades, it reached the brink of extinction, but now the local authorities are working hard to preserve it.