Heritages

Ancient lacquer craft preserved by Fuzhou artisan

2022-04-22

A lacquer artisan in Fuzhou, Fujian province, hopes to carry forward the city's traditional technology and culture of bodiless lacquerware through persistence and innovation.
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

As 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, a social practice team made up of postgraduate students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music was watching the show closely. Li is a string puppet master in Liancheng county, Fujian province, where the craft has a history of over 100 years. Drawing on the essence of local folk drama arts, Liancheng string puppet show was classified as a Fujian intangible cultural heritage item in 2009.
County welcomes prosperity with oolong tea

2021-11-02

Anxi county in Southern Fujian has been transformed from the largest poor county in the province to being among the top 100 counties in China. The secret to its success lies in its tea industry and the well-preserved tea-making heritage.
Exploring Putian's delicate architecture

2021-11-01

The many ancient architectural site featuring red brick and swallow tail ridges in Putian, Fujian province are non-renewable cultural relics of the city, experts said.
Fujian town keeps woodblock printing alive

2021-10-28

Sibao town in Liancheng county of Fujian province is famous for the preservation of traditional Chinese woodblock printing.
Secrets of ancient wooden bridges preserved

2021-10-27

Huang Chuncai, 80, knows the secret of the Chinese wooden arch bridge, a kind of ancient bridge assembled with mortise and tenon joints alone, no nails or rivets.

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