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Fan exhibition blows away boundaries between East and West
2023-02-07
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Vintage export fans are a unique form of art and craftsmanship on which Eastern and Western cultures are blended in an interesting manner.Canton Export Fans, an exhibition now underway at Chengdu Museum, in Sichuan province's capital, shows beautiful fans that were shipped from Guangdong provinc...
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Mural artist transforms hometown into rural art gallery
2023-02-01
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Liu (second right, back row) and his team take a photo with children in front of a wall painting(COURTESY PHOTO)Every time muralist Liu Zhicheng, better known as Liu Xiaobei, paints a wall in his hometown in Yongsheng County, Yunnan Province in southwest China, he captures the entire creative...
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Carving out a niche
2023-01-31
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Mythological figures like Zhong Kui are popular subjects in Chinese paper cuts.[Photo provided to China Daily]Opera was once a highlight of life in Yuxian, and thanks to a local handicraft, the memory is being protected.In the early 20th century, highly anticipated events for people in most vi...
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The smell of success
2023-01-13
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When Yang Jinqing takes out his bag of tools, people around him are usually in for a treat. As his fingers dance among the delicate tools, ranging from a mortar and pestle to a ruler and a special knife, that are neatly arranged on a long table, spices, wood powder and paste made out of various plan...
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Projectionist finds fulfillment in giving back
2023-01-03
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Yang Mingjin who is from Lushui county of Nujiang, in Southwest China's Yunnan province, has worked as a volunteer projectionist for more than 20 years.Yang said his obsession with motion pictures dates back to childhood. He started voluntary screenings in the late 1990s, shortly after he gradua...
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Artist launches Temple of Heaven series to support charity for seniors
2023-11-17
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Temple of Heaven by artist Zou Cao. [Photo provided to China Daily]Earlier this year, Beijing-based artist Zou Cao learned of a charity project, supported by several organizations nationwide, which provided in the past year daily supplies and volunteer services to the rural elders. Deeply touched, h...
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Across China: Foreign wine brewer, connoisseur explore new horizons in NW China
2023-06-07
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This photo taken with a mobile phone shows Christelle Chene, a French wine connoisseur working at Xige winery, promoting Ningxia wine in south China's Hong Kong, June 3, 2023. (Xinhua)YINCHUAN, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Maria Teresa Romero Ponce was carefully trimming extra twigs on the grape vines in...
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The magical double-sided embroidery of Suzhou embroidery: one side, one world
2023-05-10
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Double-sided different embroidery is the development and continuation of the double-sided embroidery technique of Su embroidery. This embroidery technique allows both sides of the same piece of material to be embroidered equally beautifully, and even more amazingly.The outlines and colors of the two...
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Traditional embroidery promotes ‘China chic’ in global fashion
2023-05-05
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Pan Yuzhen, a 77-year-old embroiderer,hails from Taijiang county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture.[Photo/Xinhua]Pan Yuzhen, a 77-year-old embroiderer, was thrilled to do the catwalk show in her hand-made Miao costumes last week in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizh...
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