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Drawing inside a bottle?!
2023-07-06
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What a beautiful bottle! The pattern has a hazy beauty as if hidden through a layer of frosted glass. What, its pattern was painted on from the inside, and after the bottle was made?...
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Elephant-Foot Drum Dance of the Dai People
2023-07-04
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Dai people in Yunnan Province performing the elephant-foot drum dance during their celebrations of the Water-Sprinkling Festival.Theelephant-foot drum dance is one of the most popular and representative traditional dances of the Dai people, one of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Performing th...
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Pic story: inheritor of Longfeng Cheongsam in Shanghai
2023-06-14
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This photo taken on May 30, 2023 shows cheongsams at the Longfeng Cheongsam store in east China's Shanghai.Cheongsam, or Qipao, is a traditional wearing of Chinese women which takes inspiration from the ethnic clothing of Manchu people. Evolving with the time, it nowadays represents a new fashio...
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Exhibition showcases Yi craftsmanship
2023-06-07
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Legu Shari and Legu Chenglong demonstrate the craftsmanship of the Yi group at the Beijing exhibition.[Photo provided to China Daily]The first thing one notices about Legu Chenglong are the egg-shaped silver buttons on his clothes. Nine in total, the buttons were handmade by the young man hims...
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A pattern of dedication
2023-05-23
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Cai Wenjuan at an exhibition featuring blue-and-white porcelain ware at the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute in Jiangxi province.[Photo provided by Zhou Mi/Xinhua]Decorated with cobalt blue pigment on a white ceramic body, qinghuaci ware is one of the most well-known cultural products in China, wi...
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Weaving classic craft into modern items
2023-05-12
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Liu Xianglan (center) is a national representative inheritor of the traditional brocade artisanship of the Li ethnic group.LI TIANPING/FOR CHINA DAILYLiu Xianglan, a national representative inheritor of the traditional brocade artisanship of the Li ethnic group in Wuzhishan City, South China...
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Infusing confidence in his craft
2023-04-28
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Chen Lianggu, a provincial-level inheritor of the craft of processing Tieguanyin tea, shakes tea leaves to wither them, a procedure in the production of oolong tea, at his home in Anxi county, Fujian province, in 2013. Tieguanyin tea expert not only helps to promote the traditional brew but also wor...
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Keeping traditional NW China’s Gansu embroidery alive
2023-04-18
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Xu Jing, an inheritor of Ganzhou embroidery in northwest China’s Gansu Province, encourages more people to practice the traditional handicraft through live streaming classes.Born in a tailor’s family, she began to learn how to embroider as a child. “I sewed all my toys, and the adults often prais...
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Time-honored brands attract visitors at third China International Consumer Products Expo
2023-04-14
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A woman displays Bohai Mohe embroidery, a national-level intangible cultural heritage in China, during the ongoing third China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) in Haikou, capital city of south China's Hainan Province. (People's Daily Online/Du Yanfei)Time-honored brands displayed...
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