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YANGZHOU PUPPET SHOW
Yangzhou Puppet Show "Originating in the Tang Dynasty, Growing up in the Song and Prospering in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", is one of the most characteristic and charming arts among various Chinese plays, and a precious Chinese cultural heritage.
Huaiyang Clay Dogs in Henan Province: True Totem and Living Fossil
"Clay dog" is a kind of folk clay sculpture at the Taihao temple fair of Huaiyang County in Henan Province, which came into being with the religious sacrifice and the age-old folk custom.
Brocade of the Tujia people: weaving together dreams and reality
It is a brocade of the Tujia Nationality. The General History of the Ming Dynasty calls it "striped cloth." In the Song Dynasty they called it "brook cloth" and "brook-cave facing."
The glory of Chinese woolen carpet
Large carpets, particularly large wool carpets, were not used in China until comparatively recent times. Rugs to cover the "Kang" or fire heated brick bed platform typical in North China were not uncommon at least as early Ming times.
Using sugar to paint figures
The sugar painting is just paintings made of sugar, which can not only be eaten but also appreciated. It is always called Inverse Sugar Figure, Inverse Sugar Cake or Sugar Light Figure.
Hold up an oil-paper umbrella in a rainy alley
Very few inventions of man can match the perfect marriage of delicacy and sturdiness than that of the paper umbrella from China. The dainty surface, with its paintings of flowers, birds, characters and the picturesque Chinese landscape, belies the strength that can shield man from many hazards of nature.
The Sugar-figure Blowing art - watchable yet inedible
The sugar-figure blowing is a traditional folk art of China. It has a long history while it is gradually disappearing.
Black artwork - Art on Coal
Coal carving handiworks always use jet - a hard black mineral obtained from coal seam that can be polished brightly -- as their basic material. It is black and shining, solid and wearable. With its light quality and high density, jet has been buried deep in the layers of the earth for hundreds of millions of years.
Beans Spill into Arts
Bean painting, where beans are used as the raw material, is a kind of folk art, adopting artistic characteristics from Chinese traditional painting, sculpting and decorative arts. Instead of completely imitating traditional arts, the genre boasts its own special flavor.
Big red lanterns hang up high - story of the lantern
Fancy lanterns, a special handicraft product of Chinese tradition, are widely used for decorations in the country on festivals and holidays, on weddings and other personal celebrations.