China in Pictures
@tongbingxue
Visuals of Greater China. Curated by Tong Bingxue仝冰雪, Collector & Historian, Author: History of Photo Studios in China, A Life in Portraits. DM open.
30 years ago in Shanghai, 1995. 📸 Gueorgui Pinkhassov.
From last night to this morning, Yi County 河北易县in Hebei Province experienced an extreme rainstorm with 362.6 mm of rainfall, setting a new single-day precipitation record in local observation history! Meanwhile, widespread rainfall occurred across a vast region from…
Foreign Taoist priests visit the Temple of Heaven, Beijing.
The first bird view of Peking, 1900, by French troops of the Allied Forces, published in 《La Chine A Terre Et En Ballon》, 1902.
An office building at 9 pm, Beijing. Photo Credit: RN@阿翔不说再见
Cheerleading performance of " ZheBA", hottest grassroots basketball league in Zhejiang Province. This home court, Lishui丽水, is a renowned sketching base in China, hosting over 120,000 art creators annually.
Birthday cake cutting in a Tang Dynasty-style restaurant, Xi'an.
Cooling the fish pond with ICE🧊: Due to recent persistent high temperatures, many bass in fish ponds across Huarong County, Hunan Province, have been suffering from heat stress, with hundreds of fish dying in each pond. The owner of this fish farm has resorted to buying…
Free Cooling Spaces in Xi’an: converted from civil air-raid shelters While the outside temperature soars to 40°C (104°F), these shelters maintain a cool 20°C (68°F). Equipped with free Wi-Fi, hot water, wall-mounted TVs, and even video game consoles.
A 76-year-old man from Hebei Province has gone viral across the Chinese internet due to his chocolate-colored skin, a result of decades of fishing. Originally a local farmer, he spends all his spare time fishing and has explored various water bodies in the area for over 50…
China has entered the peak summer travel season. This morning, crowds of tourists were climbing Mount Tai, China’s most famous mountain. Among its challenging paths, this "Eighteen Bends" 十八盘 stands out as the steepest section, featuring over 1,600 stone steps. It is one of…
Oei Hui Lan黄蕙兰, a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and style icon, wife of Chinese Minister to London Wellington Koo顾维钧, at the State Ball, Buckingham Palace, July 7, 1921.
Memory of street market in the Central, Hong Kong , 1950s. 📸by Fan Ho.
An elderly man performing Zhamajiao(扎马角), Beijing， 1920s. "Zhamajiao" is a traditional folk ritual originating in northern China. Performed during droughts, it involved piercing one's scalp with needles to draw blood, symbolizing a plea for rain. Over time, it evolved into a…
