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Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is an eastern and south-eastern Asian festival involving Dragon Boat races, special foods, and other traditions – find out more in the CNTV Special Feature Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

China offers a fascinating array of museums showcasing aspects of Chinese culture and history. Coinciding with International Museum Day, CNTV has been presenting a great series of stories about an interesting selection of these museums:

• Tang Dynasty Arts Museum
• Suzhou Embroidery Museum
• Tianjin Theater Museum
• China Numismatic Museum
• Sichuan Cuisine Museum
• “China House” tells extraordinary story
• China Calligraphy Museum
• Traditional Medicine Museum in Hangzhou
• Costume Museum
• China Printing Museum
• China National Tea Museum
• Bazhou China Bicycle Museum
• Camel Xiangzi Museum in Qingdao

A colorful parade has marked the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Chengdu, capital city of southwestern Province of Sichuan. The festival runs until 11 June.

The Shenzhen Daily article Watchtowers found in Nanshan reports that a recent cultural relics census has identified 21 historic watchtowers in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District. The 21 watchtowers were built between 1910 and the 1920s.

In the Shenzhen Daily article Guanlan Market James Baquet reveals how to find the site of a market that played a key role 100 years ago, once one of the four main markets of Shenzhen.