Guangzhou resident Liu Hao has completed nearly 6,000 oracle bone inscriptions in the past 10 or so years. (Photo: CHINA DAILY)In the eyes of a layperson, carving oracle bone inscriptions might seem quite a boring job, as it is slow and meticulous.But Liu Hao greatly enjoys doing the work.Liu says d...

Ji Ruiqin displays a piece of glazed tile made by Anhe Glazed Tile Company, November 16, 2022. (Photo by Chen Jian/China Pictorial)Born in 1951, Ji Ruiqin is a native of Beijing. When she was young, she did many kinds of jobs and made the “first bucket of gold,” which helped her and her husband la...

Operating the traditional wooden loom requires the collaboration of two artisans.[Photo provided to China Daily]Among China's myriad forms of silk products, one of them — yunjin — remained shrouded in mystery for more than a millennium. Historically reserved exclusively for imperial use,...

Wind, Zhu Legeng's work on display at his one-man exhibition,Creating in Inheritance, at the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum in Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily]Decadeslong experimentation sees master craftsman evolve techniques to give his work another dimension, Lin Qi rep...

Folk craftsmen in Yiquan village in Xinjiang county of Yuncheng, Shanxi province, create gold-paste artwork. [Photo by Gao Xinsheng/For chinadaily.com.cn]Dozens of folk craftsmen in Yiquan village in Xinjiang county of Yuncheng, Shanxi province, were busy creating gold-paste artwork recently.Gold pa...

Cui demonstrates the craft to apprentices at a factory.[Photo provided to China Daily]The craft behind the glazed tiles that adorn China's iconic architecture came close to extinction, but through the concerted efforts of a few dedicated people, is now thriving once more, Wang Qian and Sun Ruish...