Weekly snapshot of Chinese culture news

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BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key culture news from the past week:

-- 2,000-year-old bronze relics brought home from Japan

A set of eight bronze utensils belonging to Chinese cultural heritage have been brought home from Japan following five months of pursuit by authorities.

They are among the most-valued relics sets that have been successfully sought and brought back to China in recent years after their illegal trade on the international market was stopped, said the National Cultural Heritage Administration.

The bronzeware were identified by researchers to be stolen items from ancient tombs dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C.-476 B.C.) located in Suizhou, central China's Hubei Province.

-- China to host int'l event of intangible cultural heritage

The seventh International Festival of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, from Oct. 17 to 22.

The festival will kick off with an art performance during the opening ceremony and feature an international forum on intangible cultural heritage as well as other supporting activities.

Participants from nearly 100 countries and regions will attend the festival.

-- Exhibition to show China's retrieved cultural relics

More than 600 Chinese cultural heritage items retrieved from overseas over the past 70 years will be on display at the National Museum of China from Sept. 17.

The exhibition will feature precious items such as writings of prestigious ancient Chinese calligraphers and bronze sculptures looted in 1860 from the royal garden -- the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) -- by Anglo-French allied forces during the Second Opium War. Enditem

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