BUCHAREST, Feb. 3 -- An exhibition on Chinese culture opened here on Tuesday.

The exhibition, which will last until Feb. 27, displays about 100 items including Chinese calligraphy and paintings, according to the Confucius Institute in Bucharest, the organizer of the event.

Some 30 photos, which were taken by Xinhua photographers and showed Chinese landscapes, customs and folk life, are also part of the exhibition.

At the opening ceremony of the exhibition, the Chinese ambassador to Romania Xu Feihong called on people in Romania to learn more about Chinese culture, so that they can better understand China.

Xu also praised the decades-long relations between China and Romania.

"We are up to date with China's economic and industrial side - perhaps less so with its cultural side," said Bogdan Stanoevici, Romania's State Secretary for the Ministry of Culture.

"We will do our best to prevent our children from forgetting anything of the Chinese spirituality and Culture," he said.