Fu Culture

Traditional art uses building blocks of rice

2022-02-24

Folk artist Chen Guorui was thrilled after finishing his latest work earlier this month — a pagoda model made with around 12,500 grains of rice.
Nail-less construction technique a bridge from past to present

2022-01-20

Thanks to decades of perseverance by traditional craftsmen, a 1,000-year-old wooden arch bridge in Ningde city, Fujian province, has managed to survive, and the skills used to make it have been adapted to modern life.
Techniques of famed lacquer art protected in Fujian

2021-11-15

Fujian province recently rolled out a series of regulations to protect the traditional bodiless lacquer techniques that were born in Fuzhou and are an artistic treasure renowned at home and abroad.
Master brings new life to Liancheng string puppet shows

2021-11-09

Li Mingqin manipulated the strings of a puppet to write Chinese characters and to play the jinghu, a two-stringed bowed instrument with a high register.
Winter Olympic gold medalist helps spread Mazu culture

2022-02-15

Slovak alpine skier Petra Vlhova, who won the gold medal in the Alpine Skiing Women's Slalom at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, received a ceramic Mazu art statue as a gift on Feb 12.