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People visit an exhibition at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing on May 18, 2024. The "2024 Beijing Museum Month" event kicked off at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing on Saturday, with diverse exhibitions and cultural activities scheduled over the coming month.( tasteallchina /Chen Zhonghao) BEIJING, May 18 ( tasteallchina ) -- The "2024 Beijing Museum Month" event kicked off at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing on Saturday, with diverse exhibitions and cultural activities scheduled over the coming month. Yu Jun, deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal People's Congress, said that the rich historical and cultural heritage is a precious resource for Beijing to promote the construction of a "City of Museums." Over 100 museums in Beijing will organize nearly 1,000 exhibitions online and offline, with free tickets handed out to approximately 10,000 people daily. Beijing will also launch cultural and creative product competitions, and set up weekend markets in certain museums. Some museums will arrange film appreciation and reading activities during the period. A boy visits an exhibition at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing on May 18, 2024. The "2024 Beijing Museum Month" event kicked off at the Grand Canal Museum of Beijing…

Aerial photo shows rescue workers fixing a road linking to Hailuogou scenic area around Moxi Town of Luding County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 7, 2022. ( tasteallchina /Shen Bohan) CHENGDU, Dec. 12 ( tasteallchina ) -- Hailuogou, a popular scenic area in southwest China's Sichuan Province, reopened to visitors on Tuesday, over a year after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake forced its closure, according to its management committee. To ensure a positive sightseeing experience and the safety of tourists, the site has temporarily capped its daily arrival capacity at 500 visitors and is only accepting reservations made by travel agencies. "We have widened the road and built new tunnels and bridges to bypass areas destroyed by the earthquake," said Sun Lai, chairman of Sichuan Jiaojian Tianlu Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. The overall time it takes to travel to the attraction's core area has also been reduced significantly, he added. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Luding County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sept. 5, 2022, killing over 90 people.

On the evening of November 29, at the 17th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Rabat, Morocco, the "Traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China" nominated by China were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. "Traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China" covers the knowledge, skills, and practices of tea plantation management, tea leaf picking, manual processing, drinking, and sharing. Since ancient times, Chinese people have been growing, picking, making, and drinking tea. Using the art of tea making, tea makers have developed six major tea types, namely green, yellow, dark, white, oolong, black teas, and reprocessed tea such as flower-scented teas, and more than 2,000 kinds of tea products to meet the various needs of the people with different colors, aromas, tastes and shapes.   1 - The Origin of Chinese Traditional Tea Shennong used tea as an antidote for hundreds of poisons. Shu gave homegrown tea to the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty as a tribute. Since Lu Yu, the Saint of Tea, composed the "The Classic of Tea (茶经)", the status of tea has gone…