Lin Congpeng's puppets range from historical figures to folk opera characters.CHINA DAILYIntricate artistry, a vivid imagination and great skill breathe life into wooden figurines that have delighted audiences for millennia, Yang Feiyue reports.The rhythmic sound of wood being drilled ofte...

The Moon Tower in Beijing Purple Bamboo Park is now adorned with an impressive variety of ox paintings all over its walls. The oxen in various positions with different expressions all seem lifelike. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2021 is the Year of the Ox. The venue organized a two-month...

A prancing sea horse is one of the images taken by Xu Yitang. CHINA DAILYAn online program on young people's career choices spotlights a coral conservationist, Xing Wen reports.In 2014, a sophomore student at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts went with friends for a birthday cel...

Guqin-making is a time-consuming process that takes patience and meticulousness. WANG JING/CHINA DAILYPatience is one of the key factors in making a guqin, or the seven-stringed Chinese zither. It takes about two years to finish making one, says Sui Yiyang, 37, who has been devoted to guqin-making f...

Zhu Qingyuan works on a carved lacquerware piece at his workshop in Langfang, Hebei province. [Photo by Xiao Jingkai/For chinadaily.com.cn]Zhu Qingyuan, a master artisan of carved lacquerware in Nansong village of Gu'an county, Langfang, Hebei province, has given all his energy to the inheritanc...

Photo taken on shows Folk artist Long Changqing holding two egg carvings.Whenever he has time, a farmer in Beiwu village in Guangping county of Handan, Hebei province, immerses himself in the art of egg-carving, a traditional folk art that involves engraving and painting.Long Changqing can car...