Featured regions
Where living traditions run deepest
Garden cities and canal towns, where Kunqu opera and Pingtan balladry still fill the teahouses
Lion dances before lineage halls, dim sum mornings and the hum of Cantonese street life
Misty waterways of Jiangnan, where Yue opera and dragon-boat races keep the old rhythm
Between mountains and sea, where deity processions carry the longings of a migrant homeland
The Confucian heartland, with its sea-salt harvests, stilt walking and bold northern drumming
Old observances of the imperial city, kept alive in temple fairs and hutong courtyards
Teahouse afternoons, Sichuan opera and the pungent warmth of a river market town
The forthright spirit of Yanzhao, printed New Year pictures and village shehuo
A thousand years of Central Plain ritual, temple fairs and Yellow River memory
Canal-port manners, crosstalk teahouses and the dry humour of a treaty port
Walled merchants' towns and courtyard houses, with festivals fired by coal-country winters
Academy towns and Hakka walled villages, Nuo masks and misted hills
Xiang-Chu fire and fervour, with Miao songs and Dong dances in the western hills
Qin style on the loess plateau, Ansai waist drums and the cry of xintianyou
Grassland pastoral rites, Naadam games and the pride of the horse
Shikumen lanes and City God Temple fairs, Jiangnan manners in a modern port
Huizhou villages of white walls and black tiles, Nuo opera and autumn drying racks
Chu heritage on the middle Yangtze, dragon boats and bronze bells
Zhuang songfairs among karst peaks, and the legacy of Liu Sanjie's singing
Mountain-city manners, river boatmen's songs and hotpot bravado
Miao and Dong villages in the high valleys, where song carries history
Many peoples, many festivals — water splashing, torchlight and mountain markets
Highland Buddhist practice, butter lamps, thangka painting and circle dances
Silk Road corridors, Hua'er singing and memory at the desert's edge
Source of the great rivers, where Hua'er meets barley wine on the plateau
Northeast frontier manners between white mountains and black waters, where Manchu and Han customs meet
Below Changbai Mountain, Korean-Chinese traditions interweave with old hunting and fishing rites
Ice, snow and black soil — memories of the great migration and lingering hunting rites
Li and Miao customs in the coconut breeze, with migrant and Nanyang echoes
Yellow River oases beyond the Great Wall, Hua'er songs and Hui Muslim life
A Silk Road land of song and dance, where Muqam suites meet bazaar bustle
Min and Yue customs carried across the strait, kept alive in temple festivals
Lingnan customs at an East–West crossroads, walled-village festivals and temple incense
Four centuries of A-Ma temple incense, where Lingnan and Lusitanian customs coexist