BLUE calico is a traditional Chinese handmade printed fabric.Dyed in indigo,it has a blue base with white patterns.Tongxiang,a city in east China’s Zhejiang Province,is well-known for printing and dyeing blue calico....
JADE enjoys a high cultural status in China.It is regarded as a symbol of virtue and nobility.A popular proverb says,“For a man of true nobility,it’s better to be a broken piece of jade than a whole tile.”It means ...
THE art of printing has always helped steer the direction of the development of civilizations through creating conditions for the vast dissemination of knowledge and exchange between civilizations. China was the first...
HE is a carpenter,a genius carpenter.He became fascinated with woodwork at an early age,his first"product"a bowl chiseled out from a crude block of wood.He ate from it often.He would talk to trees,foretelling their de...
Jiwu Wuqie was born to a family of lacquerware craftsmen in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture,Sichuan province.The Yi lacquerware craft,which Jiwu learned as an apprentice to his father,has been handed down for 16 ge...