As part of "Happy Chinese New Year" 2015 cultural fairs, the mascot for the Year of the Sheep was published. Produced by the Chinese Ministry of Culture, the mascot’s design is based on traditional paper-cut art and delivers the joy ...
Gaomi is a county-level city of eastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China, under the administration of Weifang City. It is the hometown of writer and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan, who has set some of his stories ...
Safety is the most important factor to be considered to enjoy life to the fullest. If one is safe then he or she can achieve anything that they have ever dreamed of. It must be taken as the prime concern in everyone's life. Nothing in this ...
History Chinese Paper Cutting or Jianzhi is the first type of papercutting design, since paper was invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It is a very distinctive visual art of Chinese handicrafts. ...
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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. The history of this handicraft, with the local ...
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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. The history of this handicraft, with the local ...
Tags: sugar painting, sweet art, sugar art
You don't have to exile your current bookcases to the reuse and recycle bin. We give you a few easy ways to update and coordinate your existing bookcases with new purchases. Customizing an Existing Bookcase We live in our homes so long, ...
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Help Return the Moon to Orbit in the Independently Developed Mobile Game Paper Galaxy PASADENA, CA, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The moon is lost in space! Only 4.5 billion years old, Luna is going to need lots of help to make ...
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Nuo is a phenomenon of witchcraft culture which has its root in Chinese primitive religion and means to drive away devils. Primitive people thought that all diseases were caused by devils. The ritual activities of Nuo were already in ...
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XinJi Peasant Painting of Shi Jiazhuang City dates back to the ancient times with distant source and long stream. Early in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people here had the tradition of drawing, embroidery, cutting, plaiting and so on. In ...
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When ink play is mentioned, we would usually think of the literate ink play of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a reference to the practice of playing with ink brushwork. The title of this exhibition borrows the word play from this phrase ...
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Sang Liangshu was once a typical Chinese housewife. That was before being inspired by her family's intense interest in art. She created a unique paper-cut art, which she called "Xiao Sang Paper-cut." Her style of paper-cut preserves ...
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The paper-cut is one of China's most popular and characteristic folk arts. It takes paper as the material and scissors or engraving knives as the tool. The tradition can be traced back to the 6th century. However, it probably emerged even a ...
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The keynote for funeral and memorial service is spiritual eternity and continuation of life after death. This is also the main theme of Chinese folk art works on the subject. Death at old age is a normal course of life referred to as ...
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Rooted in the original Chinese philosophy and social customs, nourished by cultures from diverse nationalities, geographical localities and through different historical times, Chinese folk art has now blossomed and laden with fresh fruit, ...
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