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Maison & Objet gets a taste of China
2024-02-06
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The Zhaipresents Chinese intangible cultural heritage to the audience in Paris. The exhibition showcases over 200 items from Suzhou, Jiangsu province.Visitors to January's Maison & Objet in Paris were able to step into a world of elegance and tradition atThe Zhai("hous...
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Cultural inheritor Li Yinjie prepares artwork for Spring Festival
2024-01-29
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Li Yinjie creates paper-cutting artwork. [Photo by Li Lujian/For chinadaily.com.cn]As the Spring Festival approaches, Li Yinjie is busy making paper-cutting artwork to welcome the Year of the Dragon.Li has created several collections of exquisite paper-cutting works based on the Year of the Dragon....
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Pic story: inheritor of Tanmujiang wooden comb carving craft
2024-01-25
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Yu Dahong engraves on a wooden comb at a workshop of Tanmujiang factory in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 5, 2024.Tanmujiang wooden comb traditional making crafts, which combine the skill of color decoration, engraving, lacquering, and gold gilding, have been listed as an intangible cultural herit...
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Pic story of luthier in Yingkou City, China's Liaoning
2024-01-23
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Yu Haixu makes a violin at his studio in Yingkou, northeast China's Liaoning Province on Jan. 9, 2024.Yu Haixu is a luthier working in Yingkou City of northeast China's Liaoning Province. Influenced by his father since childhood, he gradually grew attached to the sophisticated making crafts...
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Terracotta artist rekindles lost light on ancient skills
2024-01-23
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Wang Qian examines a figurine in her workshop in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.The creator of the world's first life-size Terracotta Warrior replica in 1979 is as passionate as ever about historical sculpture today as she was over 40 years ago.Wang Qian, 79, talks excitedly about her most recent t...
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Pic story: inheritor of pigment making for traditional Beijing paintings
2024-01-16
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Yang Xin makes pigment with colourful minerals at his studio in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 4, 2024.Yang Xin, 62, is a noted artist of traditional Beijing paintings. His family have been involved in pigment making business since the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Fascinated by paintings since his chi...
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Pic story: inheritor of Huizhou Ink
2023-11-01
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Shexian County, located in Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, is known as the "Capital of Ink" dating back to the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-975). After it was renamed Huizhou in 1121, the term "Huizhou Ink", or "Hui Mo" in Chinese, stands for high-quali...
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Activities held to promote Chinese culture at Asian Games Sub-village in Chun'an, E China
2023-10-26
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Members of different delegations experience traditional Chinese handicraft at the Asian Games Sub-village in Chun'an, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023.Performers prepare to go on stage during an artistic performance promoting Chinese culture at the Asian Games Sub-village in Ch...
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Handmade dolls bring fortunes to local residents in SW China's county
2023-10-19
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In 2016, a handicraft cooperative was established in Baihe community. Members of the cooperative integrated local traditional culture and modern design into a handmade doll named "Lucky Doll".Sold both at home and abroad, the "Lucky Doll" has become a distinctive local industry a...
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