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A | (ECNS) -- Cities across China are rolling out immersive imperial banquet experiences that combine courtly pageantry, theatrical performance, and multi-course feasts, drawing growing numbers of foreign visitors. Guests are dressed as ancient Chinese nobles in traditional costume and makeup, then seated in ornate palace settings. The evening opens with an address by an "emperor" and a procession by an "empress," followed by attendants pouring wine and serving dishes, with song, dance, and martial arts displays between courses. Basic tickets start at about 200 yuan ($30), with another 100 yuan for costume and makeup and a further 100 yuan for front-row seats. The full package costs about 500 yuan, or roughly $70. "For this entire package of service and spectacle back home, you'd be lucky to tip that much," one traveler said. Each city adds a local twist. In Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, the banquet is built around Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor, and features Tang Dynasty dress: performers wear red or green ruqun, a traditional blouse-and-skirt ensemble, with floral forehead ornaments, while aerial dance on wires adds to the spectacle. In Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the banquet spans the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties, and dressing rooms styled as a "Costume Bureau" offer looks ranging from the Twelve Flower Goddesses and the Four Great Beauties to literary figures such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Su Dongpo, with guests free to choose any persona they fancy. Beijing has a royal cuisine museum whose exhibition halls trace the history of imperial food culture, and its menu features dishes once served to the Qing Dynasty emperors Kangxi and Qianlong. The food is as much of the draw as the pageantry. A single feast runs to more than a dozen courses, among them braised pork belly, roasted lamb chops, stewed beef, and braised yellow croaker, along with rich soups such as salted pork and bamboo shoot stew or Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Each serving looks modest, but the steady stream of hearty dishes leaves many foreign guests pleasantly stuffed. One foreign tourist said, "The Chinese are the most ceremonial people in the world. I knew they pick lucky dates for weddings and must eat dumplings for Spring Festival, but here at the imperial banquet, they even carved the words 'Happy Birthday' in Chinese characters out of carrots on the complimentary noodles!" A young European woman said she loved traditional Chinese costume but worried she would look out of place in it. A Chinese netizen reassured her: "During the Tang Dynasty, China was already very international, with foreign faces everywhere on the streets. Anyone would look beautiful in our attire." (By Zhang Dongfang) 
。 (ECNS) -- Solar panels are appearing above more and more farms across China as the country looks for new ways to pair renewable energy with agricultural production. A rooftop solar project at a large dairy farm in Anhui Province began operating in July, covering 560,000 square meters of cattle barn roofs without taking up any additional land. The project can generate up to 300,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a day and is expected to produce about 80 million kilowatt-hours a year, according to Xiao Jun, who heads the project. The farm houses about 40,000 cattle at a single site, he said, making it the largest in Asia to carry rooftop solar. The panels also help keep the barns cooler. The project is part of a broader push in Anhui to combine solar power with farming. A hybrid fishery and solar project with a total investment of 514 million yuan (about $71 million) has begun construction in Hefei, according to the local government. In Guangde, panels have been installed across nearly 600,000 square meters of tea plantations, generating about 136 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity a year, a representative of the project said. The trend is spreading nationwide as local governments and businesses look for more efficient ways to use land and other resources. A report released in February projected that China's total solar power generation capacity would grow by about 25% in 2026. Policy support is growing alongside it. The Renewable Energy Development Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period calls for wider use of distributed renewable energy in industrial, commercial, transport, building, and agricultural settings. The sector continued to expand in the first half of 2026. The National Energy Administration said renewable energy accounted for 60.7% of China's total installed power capacity, with wind and solar making up nearly half. The growth in solar applications is reshaping the photovoltaic industry itself. Industry experts say competition is shifting away from scale and price toward efficiency, technological innovation, and integrated applications. For agriculture, researchers said "solar-plus" projects could extend the reach of photovoltaic power while keeping land in productive use. (By Helen Mo & intern Liu Shuangjing) 。
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