American artist Denis Naymark pursues his ceramic dream in China’s porcelain capital, Jingdezhen.Denis Naymark and his ceramic work. In the year 1295, on his way back to Europe, Marco Polo could not have imagined that the white “porcellana” he took with him from Jingdezhen would make a big...

Artists turn ordinary shells into coveted artworks featuring various elements, such as birds, flowers and rabbits.Artisans carry forward the old craft of carving on the fragile gift from the ocean, report Yang Feiyue and Hu Meidong in Fuzhou.As products of nature, shells have developed a bond with p...

Ji Ruiqin displays a piece of glazed tile made by Anhe Glazed Tile Company, November 16, 2022. "Now 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 launch Anhe Glazed Tile Comp...

Wang Anwei, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), has emphasized the importance of preserving the residences of renowned artists and historic figures."They tell a city's past, serving as a window into a city's local culture and history. By preserving these res...

Wang Yunyu, a young craftswoman from Yangzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, has committed herself to passing down the craft of tongcao flowers making.Born in 1997, Wang has already been making tongcao flowers, or hand-made flowers woven from the leaves of rice paper plants, for 15 years and has c...

Cao Yuanchun, an embroidery enthusiast in Tianshui, Gansu province, adds stitches to one of her works.Cao Yuanchun, an embroidery enthusiast in Tianshui, Gansu province, has been busy stitching her first work since the Year of the Rabbit began.She is embroidering a work using a three-rabbit pattern...