Dragon in China

17/06/2026

It's a panda... holding a bowl of rice... and it's all made with GREEN RICE! This gigantic artwork (which is also edible) is currently growing in Chengdu, the "home of pandas" in southwest China. But come harvest time, it'll be gone!

(Photos by Zhang Lang)

17/06/2026

It's feeding time at the zoo! A wildlife park in China treated its resident animals with zongzi or sticky rice dumplings ahead of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival. Each type was made according to the nutritional needs of the species. Love how the giraffe couldn't wait to get its afternoon snack 😂

09/06/2026

Peace is what discomfort becomes when you stop arguing with it🙏🧘‍♂️.

(Photo taken on August 26, 2015 in southwest China's Sichuan Province )

08/06/2026

Ma Ning is the GOAT!

Chinese referee Ma Ning has become the unlikely face of the 2026 World Cup in China, with memes about the 46-year-old going viral and multiple domestic brands announcing collaborations with him.

Over the past week, Ma has been announced as brand ambassador for several major Chinese companies, including tech giant Lenovo, consumer electronics maker Hisense, and dairy brand Mengniu. Official accounts dedicated to Ma have also been launched on lifestyle platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, and video streaming site Bilibili.

Ma is the only Chinese match referee at this year’s FIFA World Cup, which will run from June 12 to July 20. It marks his second appearance at a World Cup, following his debut at the 2022 tournament in Qatar, where he served as a fourth official — an assistant referee who works off-pitch.

With China’s national football team failing to qualify for this year’s World Cup, Ma has emerged as someone Chinese fans can still support. Ma is joined at the tournament by assistant referee Zhou Fei and VAR official Fu Ming.

“China has been absent from the World Cup for 24 years, so any Chinese presence — whether a player or even a referee — becomes a rare and highly visible point of connection,” Chen Diandian, founding partner of domestic sports media and consulting group ECO Sports, told Sixth Tone.

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08/06/2026

Enlightenment is just confusion viewed from a different angle 🐼🙃

(Photo of Panda Yu Ke taking at Chongqing Zoo, southwest China, on May 24, 2026)

07/06/2026

Turn your back on negativity. And, whenever possible, responsibility 🐼

(Photo taken at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in SW China's Sichuan Province)

07/06/2026

In China, parents bring sunflowers to exam sites because they're a visual wish for success 🌻🌻🌻

12.9 million students are sitting probably the most important exam in their life, called "gaokao" or national college entrance exam, over the weekend. Acing it opens the door to better universities and majors they want and eventually the life they dream of.

And naturally, they'll need all the luck they can afford, and that's where the yellow flowers come in. The Chinese character for sunflower, kui (葵), sounds exactly like the character kui (魁) for the leading one or winner. This proximity in pronunciation makes these flowers a lucky charm, that you see every year in China around this time of the year.

03/06/2026

These are the Mogao Grottoes, at the edge of the Taklamakan desert in northwest China. It's a place where devotion mixes with art. Here, the murals and artifacts, the youngest aged 1500 years, stand as witnesses to Chinese history and the development of Buddhism in the country.

03/06/2026

Me Chinamaxxing today.

03/06/2026

The liveliest night market in the desert in China.