Members of the "A Date with China 2024 – Meet Shandong" international media tour, learn to make traditional Chinese knot-buttons at the Museum of Lu Brocade located in Jiaxiang county of Jining city in East China’s Shandong province on June 4, 2024. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Lujin, or Lu Brocade, is hand-woven brocade with pure cotton popular in southwest Shandong province that traces back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

A group of foreign journalists and influencers based in China visited the Museum of Lu Brocade located in Jiaxiang county of Jining city in East China's Shandong province on Tuesday to explore and experience the techniques associated with the ancient fabric, which was recognized as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Hao Qiuxia (right), founder of the Museum of Lu Brocade, teaches Mohammad Hashem Mohammadi, an Afghanistan content creator based 

in Shanghai, to make health-preserving hammer containing medicinal herbs in Jiaxiang county of Jining city in East China’s Shandong province on June 4, 2024. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Under the guidance of Hao Qiuxia, a local lujin inheritor who founded the museum in 2015 - in which the building used to 

be her family's ancestral house - media guests tried their hand at turning cotton into yarn on the spinning wheel and weaving lujin fabric on the loom. They also learned to make pankou (traditional Chinese knot buttons) and health-preserving hammer containing medicinal herbs at the museum's intangible cultural heritage workshop.