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Han Meilin's Influence of Cultural Traditions
Jan 3, 2017Through his six-decade career, Han Meilin-who is well-known as the chief designer of Fuwa, the good-luck mascots for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008-has always turned to Chinese cultural traditions for inspiration. The 80-year-old began ...
Tags: Fuwa, Han Meilin
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Kellogg's Origins Program Helps Spanish Rice Farmers Continue Rice-Growing Tradition
Apr 6, 2016Woman rice farmer's yields increase with help from @KelloggCompany Origins program. Marisol's family has been growing rice for several generations in Northeast Spain, the place where the Ebro River meets the Mediterranean Sea. Raised in a ...
Tags: Kellogg, Woman rice farmer, Rice-Growing Tradition, Spanish Rice Farmers
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Shanghai, Dubai to Collaborate in Design Exchange
Mar 15, 2016Dubai and Shanghai Monday agreed to collaborate in design knowledge exchange and increase inter-city relations. The agreement was made during UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Creative City ...
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Summit Explores Ways to Preserve Traditional Villages
Dec 16, 2015Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
Tags: Traditional Villages, Preserve
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Paper Culture Heritage Highlighted in Beijing
Dec 16, 2015Great Seed produced a documentary after their 5,000 -kilometer journey across Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan provinces to explore the ancient art of papermaking. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As the country is paying more and more ...
Tags: paper culture, Culture Heritage, intangible cultural heritage
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Keeper of The Past
Dec 2, 2015The Palace Museum in Beijing is one of the country's first UNESCO World Heritage sites. [Photo by Zhuo Ensen/China Daily] China celebrates UNESCO founding with pledge to protect its own sites and do more, Wang Kaihao reports. Preservers ...
Tags: Mogao Caves, Palace Museum
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Puppets Get People Hooked at Fujian Festival
Nov 26, 2015A German artist performs at the China Quanzhou International Puppet Festival. GUO HONGSONG/CHINA DAILY It was a fiesta for puppets-those artful creatures that come to joyful life and overcome language barrier. Last week, as a highlight ...
Tags: Puppets, Chinese marionette, Fujian Festival
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Digital Archive to Be Created for Ancient Sculpture Grottoes
Nov 26, 2015The Maijishan Grottoes. [File photo/Chinanews.com] Chinese researchers are taking digital inventory of a collection of ancient sculptures and artwork at the Maijishan Grottoes in Northwest China's Gansu province, local relics protection ...
Tags: Digital Archive, Grottoes, sculptures, artwork
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Historical Relics From The Ming Tombs Move to New Storehouse
Nov 26, 2015Entering the new storehouse you can see the dust removal equipment mounted on the walls. [Photo/Beijing News] Unearthed after 59 years, more than 3,000 precious historical relics from the Ming Tombs in Beijing's suburban district of ...
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Inner Mongolia Races to Preserve Threatened Cultural Heritage
Nov 25, 2015Performers from Inner Mongalian Military Area Command's art troupe perform a Mongolian dance on Sept 15, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region is racing to interview and record performances by aging craftsmen ...
Tags: ICH, ICH inheritors
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UNESCO Adds 34 New Entries to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Nov 3, 2015Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
Tags: UNESCO, World Intangible Cultural Heritage, crafts, cultural entries
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2015 China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival Kicks off
Oct 29, 2015According to a press conference held yesterday in Beijing, the 2015 China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival will open on Sept 26 at the great thinker's hometown Qufu in Jining city, Shandong province. Organized by the ...
Tags: Confucius Cultural Festival, traditional Chinese Culture
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First Lady Adds Charming Edge to Diplomacy
Oct 29, 2015Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
Tags: First Lady, Charming Edge, Diplomacy
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Migration of The Hani People to Yunnan Is Inspiration
Oct 28, 2015After a successful debut at Honghe Grand Theater in Yunnan province, the music drama Muomaamei, which depicts the story of the Hani ethnic group's migration, will be staged in Beijing this weekend. The ethnic group is believed to have ...
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Sino-Japan Tensions Rise Over China's Nanjing Massacre Memory Application
Oct 28, 2015Tensions between the two Asian giants, China and Japan, are running high after the Japanese government tried to block China's application to UNESCO to list documents relating to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and "comfort women", or the 200, 000 ...
