The Lantern Festival: Day for Solving Riddles

The Dragon Boat Festival: Time for Memorials

The Double-Seventh Day: It All Started with a Romance

The Mid-Autumn Festival: Story of the Archer and His Wife on the Moon

Memorializing the Ancestors: Day of Ancestor Worship

Homeward Bound: A Poet and His Nostalgia

Chinese Sentimentality: Oh, That Spring of Melancholy and Autumn of Sorrow!

Yu the Great: Following Nature to Control the Floods

Confucius: Lifetime of Tireless Learning and Earnest Practice

Mencius: Early Dedication to Learning

Laozi: Westward Bound on My Ox

Zhuangzi: My Mind, Where Freedom Reigns

Qu Yuan: All for This Land We Call Home

Su Wu: Definition of a Patriot

Sima Qian: Masterpiece of a Humiliated Historian

Zhuge Liang: Much More Than Just Wit

Li Bai: Defying the Powerful

Du Fu: For the State and the People

Fan Zhongyan: A Painstaking Studentship

Ouyang Xiu: The Pleasure of Sharing

Wang Anshi: A Statesman and His Reforms

Su Shi: Unfettered Perspective Against All Odds

Li Qingzhao: Love Conceived in Arts

Xin Qiji: Patriotic Warrior and Poet

Wen Tianxiang: Statesman Equaled by None

Cao Xueqin: Life Is but a Dream — From Riches to Rags

Lin Zexu: A National Hero in a Complacent China

Lu Xun: From Medicine to Literature

Sister Jiang: The Darkest Hour Before the Dawn

Yue Fei: Serving the Country with Supreme Loyalty

Dong Cunrui: Taking Out an Enemy Bunker with Flesh and Blood

Lang Ping: The “Iron Hammer”

Yang Liwei: The Making of an Astronaut

Paper-Making: Cai Lun and Chinese Paper-Making

The Art of Printing: The Beginning of Movable Type Printing

Hybrid Rice: Fragrance in the Wind

The “3-N” Shelterbelt: Confession of a Poplar

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway: Across the Frozen Soil

High-Speed Rail: Running like the Wind

Artemisinin: A Cure from Chinese Traditional Medicine

Chinese Supercomputers: Winning Three World Championships

Quantum Communication: The Future of Communication

Beidou Navigation Satellite System: China’s “Eye in the Sky”

Graphene: Graphene Comes of Age in China

Overcoming Poverty: Story of “Mushroom Village”

World-Leading Bridge: The “Swiss Watch” of Bridges

The Book of Songs: In the Village of Poetry

Chinese Characters: Push or Knock? — Choosing Characters

Calligraphy: Just Numbers and Techniques?

Classical Music: Story of Mountains and Streams

Painting: Twists and Turns of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Tang Poetry: Painting with Words

Song Ci Poetry: Simply Affection and Love

The Peony Pavilion: A Girl’s Awakening in a Garden

Romance of the Western Chamber: Chinese Classical Love Story

The Yellow River Chorus: A Wartime Song That United Us All

Benevolence: Confucius Said…

Propriety: Story of the Six-Foot Alley

Wisdom: Subduing the Enemy Without Fighting

Trustworthiness: The Log That Proved Trustworthiness

Dedication to Duty: The Milk Delivery Woman Who Moved the Nation

True Friendship: The Friendship Between the General and the Premier

The Red Flag Canal Spirit: Milky Way on Earth Flowing over Precipices

The Foolish Old Man Removing the Mountains: Man’s Triumph over Nature

The “Red Rock” Spirit: Embroidery on the Red Flag

The Long March Spirit: Death of a Quartermaster

The Triangle Hill Spirit: Story of an Apple

The Daqing Oilfield Spirit: Wang Jinxi, the Chinese “Iron Man”

The Spirit of Craftsmanship: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

The China Dream: For Each and Every Native Village

Ceaseless Struggle: Celebration of Life