The Meaning of Paper Cutting People find hope and comfort in expressing wishes with paper cuttings.For example:for a wedding ceremony，red...
Chinese Traditlonal Crafts
Features of Chinese Paper-Cut With a vast territory and multi-ethnic population，Chinese folk paper-cut bears distinct national and geographical features.In art...
A Brief Introduction of Chinese Paper-Cut of all folk art works，paper-cut is the most participated.Often characterized by geographical regions，paper-cut is...
Yang jia bu Woodblock New Year Picture Yang jiabu Woodblock New Year Pictures originated in the Ming Dynasty.Yangjiabu is located...
The block-printed Chinese New Year pictures are a traditional form of folk art in China.They are pictures printed from wood...
Porcelain in Tang Dynasty The Tang Dynasty was a time of unprecedented development-polifi-cal，economic，and cultural-for the Chinese feudal society，and the porcelain...
Porcelain arficles are important Chinese cultural artifacts，a unique creation of Chinese people.China is well known by the world parily due...
Ancient Pottery Products The shapes of pottery products made in the period from the Shang and Zhou to the Han...
The Origin of Chinese Pottery Many pieces of pottery of the primitive society were excavated from China's Yellow and Yangtze...
Before the Han Dynasty，China already traded silk for products from West Asian countries.In the 2nd century B.C.，Zhang Qian of the...
Generally speaking，prior to the Yuan Dynasty，celadon and white porcelain were the main porcelain products in ancient China.During the Yuan Dynasty，colored...
Academic circles still debate when this occurred.Some scholars think that porcelain originated in the Wei and Jin dynasties；others look to...
Chinese pottery and porcelain go back to distant antiquity and have played an important role in cultural development of Chinese...
Pottery and porcelain refer to all products that are made of a mixture of clay，feldspar and quartz，through shaping，drying and firing.Chinese...
Chinese dragons are Legendary creatures in Chinese folklore.The dragons have many animal-like forms such as horse,snake,fish,dog, cow and so on....
Chinese stone carving enjoys a long history and was famous for its outstanding achievements as early as in Han and...
Hou Mu Wu Bronze Ding is an ancient cooking vessel with two loop handles and four legs.It was unearthed in...
The Chinese abacus,known as the Suanpan,is typically 20 centimeter tall and comes in various widths depending on the operator.It usually...
The kite,originally called zhiyuan,is said to have been invented by a famous Chinese philosopher,Mo-tse, 2,300 years ago for military purposes.Kites...
Clay Figure Zhang is a famous folk art in Tianjin.It was initiated by Zhang Mingshan (1826-1906),a folk artist of Tianjin,during...