For thousands of years, the region south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, rich in elegance and literati temperament, has been filled with artisans whose carvings have realized the material's imagery association with human virtue.
A shadow puppetry master brought the magic of this ancient art to students at Jinshan Primary School in Minle county, Gansu province on Tuesday, sharing the enchanting legacy of this ancient art form.
He Jixing, a municipal-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor, and his team have hosted several hundreds of lantern-themed events in the past few years, attracting tens of thousands of visitors.
Fine, crisp and translucent. Many years ago, a dance between clay and fire gave rise to a tangible piece of art: porcelain. Porcelain is ceramic made by heating raw materials, often a mix between China stone and kaolin clay, in a kiln at a temperature as high as 1,200 degree Celsius.
