A Thousand Year Painting Reborn in Silk Song of the Yellow River

A Thousand Year Painting Reborn in Silk Song of the Yellow River

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River & Life
Apr 8, 2026

Why exactly is the Yellow River known as China’s “Mother River”? Join us on a journey through time with CGTN’s “Song of the Yellow River” to see how this great river has shaped more than half of China’s 5,000-year history - and continues to inspire the nation today.

A city for whom the Yellow River has meant both life and death, whose Golden Age is captured in a classic painting, now being imbued with new vitality thanks to an art-form both age-old and innovative! Watch history come alive as Wang Suhua recreates a Song Dynasty masterpiece using silk threads so thin and fine they almost boggle the mind.

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