Ivan Andrew Chen, a Rongchang xiabu craftsman from India, and his Chinese wife Tang Yi, check materials.ZOU FEI/FOR CHINA DAILYRongchang xiabu craftsmanship — a Chinese traditional intangible cultural heritage — is getting more attention and market opportunities worldwide owing to the inheri...

FatherFerdinand Verbiest(9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was aFlemishJesuitmissionaryinChinaduring the reign of theQing dynasty. He was born inPittemnearTieltin theCounty of Flanders(now part ofBelgium...

CHANGTU, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Gong Zhiguang is an erhu artisan in Changtu County, Tieling City of northeast China's Liaoning Province. He has been interested in woods since his childhood and got enchanted almost at the very first glance at erhu making in the ancient way. Since then, he has devote...

Lu Faliang makes a paper knife cutting at his studio in Yueqing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, March 12, 2024.Paper knife cutting, a folk artwork popular in Yueqing City in China's southeast coastal area, is originated from paper cutting on local dragon lanterns. Boasting of its delic...

An embroidery work depicting the collision of gold nuclei is a big draw for visitors at the Suzhou Art Museum.[Photo by Gao Erqiang/China Daily]Walking into the Suzhou Art Museum in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, the eyes of visitors are immediately drawn to an artwork hanging high on the wall that...

Wang Wei (Traditional Chinese: 王維; Simplified Chinese: 王维, pinyin: Wáng Wéi, 699–759) was a Chinese musician, painter, poet, and politician of the middle Tang dynasty. He is regarded as one of the most distinguished men of arts and letters of his era. About 400 of his poems survived and 29 of...