Of China's Four Treasures of Study - brush, inkstick, paper and ink stone, two come from Shexian County in Anhui province.
Around 28 years ago, when photographer Liu Shibin first came to the Shitan village in Shexian county of Anhui province, he was deeply attracted to the scenery there.
Many foreign nationals who are long-term China residents are insisting on staying in the country in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Below, China Daily talks with three such people.
With 88 peaks at an elevation of more than 1,000 meters, Huangshan, which is also known as Yellow Mountains, is thought by many to be worth a visit at least once in a lifetime. Xie Feijun climbs the mountains nearly 300 days a year, though his visits are purely for work.
Liu Xizhu from Huangshan, Anhui province, has been busy recently picking tea leaves in his tea garden that winds through the city's mountainous Yixian county.
Ascending the stone steps of a terraced tea garden, Fang Dongyu, 68, is busy picking fresh tea leaves with other villagers as the spring tea harvest begins.
Most of the creatures today consist of hundreds of millions of cells, but when life on Earth first emerged, they were merely a few microns long, invisible to naked eyes.
In the mountains of Huangshan in Anhui province, rain is refilling the creeks and bringing waterfalls back to life, with fresh flowers and tea leaves adding color to the surroundings of the traditional black and white residential architecture.
