Hebei farmer carves fragile works of art on eggshells

Photo taken on shows Folk artist Long Changqing holding two egg carvings.Whenever he has time, a farmer in Beiwu village in Guangping county of Handan, Hebei province, immerses himself in the art of egg-carving, a traditional folk art that involves engraving and painting.Long Changqing can car...

Young woman becomes online hit by turning old objects into art works

Lin Xi, a woman born after 1995, disassembles items people no longer use and then puts the parts together in one frame, turning old objects into exquisite works of art that remind people of their past.Lin began doing this in 2019, and has so far disassembled hundreds of cellphones, including first-g...

Peony painting propels prosperity in Shandong

Farmers paint peonies in the Luxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute in Juye, Shandong province, on Sunday. [Photo by Zhao Ruixue/China Daily]Known as the "Peony Capital of China", Heze in Shandong province has been cultivating the delicate flower for over 1,400 years, and thanks to this l...

Prominent artist reviews career spanning 45 years

Pumpkin.[Photo provided to China Daily]From figurative method to expressionism and then abstractive art, Ma Lu, an eminent oil painter, has heralded a movement to build a distinctive language of painting in the scene of contemporary Chinese art.Born to an artist family, Ma followed in his pare...

Pic story: inheritor of Guangzhou embroidery

Wang Xinyuan teaches an apprentice at his studio in Liwan District of Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 6, 2022. Cantonese embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China. Guangzhou embroidery, part of Cantonese embroidery, dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and...

Mastering an ancient art

Wang Junzi just returned a few days ago from a porcelain exchange meeting in Japan. "I shared our Ru porcelain culture with artists from abroad and also got a better look at what has recently been going on with porcelain development," says Wang, who is from Qingliangsi village, Baofeng cou...

Threading a path through time

Veteran craftswoman Wang Suhua embroiders a piece of work at her studio in Kaifeng, Henan province.[Photo provided to China Daily]Craftswoman dedicates her life to revitalizing traditional embroidery by re-creating masterpieces, Yang Feiyue reports.Snow-white woven silk, colorful threads and silver...

Recovering a historical accessory

Sangpi paper is cut into small patches to make the canopy.[Photo provided to China Daily]Since Liu Weixue first saw a handmade paper umbrella 17 years ago, he has been fascinated by the centuries-old craft and its techniques. At that time, little did he realize that he would, one day, bring his own...

Handing down the craftsmanship through innovation

After graduating from college, Xiong Songtao hoped to do his own thing. He was convinced by his father’s simple but weighty words: “traditional craftsmanship must be handed down!” After learning for two years, he began to try his hand at creating. Because of this huge interest in making enamel wa...

Pic story: inheritor of Jianchuan woodcarving in SW China's Yunnan

Duan Sixing sleeks a woodcarving work in Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 1, 2022. Jianchuan County, located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province, has a long history in woodcarving dating back to the...

A Chinese painter dedicated to cross-cultural communication through art

Yu Danqing's traditional Chinese ink painting works Yu Danqing hosted her first art exhibition in Beijing in late 1992, at the age of 21. It was at that event she met two expats who were so enraptured by her work, and by Chinese painting, that they asked her if she would become their teach...

Young inheritor gives new lease of life to ancient Sancai wares

Zhang Yipeng glazes Sancai ceramics in his workshop in Luoyang city, central China’s Henan Province. (Photo/Huang Zhengwei)Zhang Yipeng, an inheritor of Jiaotai (mixed clay) Sancai, a city-level intangible cultural heritage of Luoyang city, central China’s Henan Province, has given a new lease of...