The Pottery Museum in Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province has introduced pottery classes at local schools to cultivate students' interests in pottery and promote the inheritance of the local intangible cultural heritage.

The clay pottery firing technique has a history of more than 600 years in Hejialou village, Fengtai subdistrict, Pingdu. It has been listed as a Qingdao municipal intangible cultural heritage item.

A folk artist from the Pingdu Pottery Museum teaches local students how to make pottery during an intangible cultural heritage class. [Photo/Dazhong News]

Students learn about how to make objects out of clay at the pottery class in Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province. [Photo/Dazhong News]

Students attend a pottery class in Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province. [Photo/Dazhong News]