Many women in Shilan, a small town in Hunan province, are becoming embroiderers with support from the local government. They will become inheritors of Miao embroidery, a national intangible cultural heritage from the Miao people.
The 2018 Chinese Classics Gala was held on Dec. 10 in Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone (PCPZ), Southeast China’s Fujian Province.
Making dough figurines dates back to the late Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and is listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage. Folk artists make the figures by hand, using wheat flour and glutinous rice flour as raw materials.
A grand exhibition showing documents related to The Yongle Canon, an ancient encyclopedia compiled in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is ongoing at the National Museum of Classic Books in Beijing.
A craftsman this week exhibited his straw-plaited artwork to highlight the traditional folk art in Zhangjiakou in the Hebei province.
The Guoxue lecture, themed “Human beings broaden the way, but sagacious human beings can broaden tian”was given on the evening of Dec.5 in Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone by Roger T. Ames, a noted sinologist.
In the fields of sinology and philosophy in the Western world, Roger T. Ames is currently one of the big names. His works have adressed centuries-long misunderstandings of Chinese philosophical ideas that have prevailed in the West, and have opened a new space for dialogue in philosophy and culture between China and the outside world.
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