This work, called The Ordos Bride, is a vivid example of sheepskin painting. [Photo/baotounews.com.cn]

Eight traditional handicrafts from Baotou city – located in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region – were recently included in the first autonomous region-level traditional handicraft revitalization catalog, according to a report in the Baotou Daily.

The handicrafts include Baotou paper-cutting, Baotou dough modeling and sesame candy-making skills.

Also recognized were Liuhetai pillow-making skills, hard candy-making skills, the Zhao clan traditional plaster-making skills, the Bai clan traditional Chinese medicine prescription method and the Ji clan's sheepskin paintings. 

An intricate example of Baotou paper-cutting [Photo/wenming.cn]

A series of events were hosted in the autonomous region on June 11-15, marking 2021 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. The region's first traditional craft revitalization catalog was published and certificates were issued to representative inheritors or masters of their respective crafts. Handicraft exhibitions and other activities were also held.

To date, Baotou city has organized three representative national intangible cultural heritage projects and two representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects. It has also organized 27 autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage projects – involving 39 inheritors, or handicraft masters – and 102 intangible cultural heritage projects at the municipal level, involving 175 inheritors.