A part of Recipe of Red Army [Photo provided to China Daily] Edible wild herbs, leather pieces, tree barks and grass, these were some of the "food" which once helped Red Army soldiers survive the Long March. They are also the subjects of depiction in a collection of 100 oil paintings, titled Recipe of Red Army, by students of the Central Academy of Fine Arts inspired by a journey in 2016 to Sichuan province that Red Army troops passed through during the Long March.

Beijing capped a busy year of preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics on Thursday with the release of the Games' official sports pictograms, which have been inspired by the traditional Chinese art of seal engraving. With some of the country's top sports and entertainment celebrities in attendance, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games unveiled the pictograms during a televised countdown party on New Year's Eve－a major milestone in preparations with co-host city Zhangjiakou, Hebei province for the winter sports gala.