Chinese jade carving art
Chinese jade carving art
Jade is loosely understood in China as the collective name for most precious stones, and jade carving in this sense constitutes an important part of Chinese arts and crafts. The love of jade ware, according to Dr. Joseph Needham, the noted British naturalist, has been one of the cultural features of China. Crude jade tools have been found among the archaeological
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Hunan Xiang Embroidery
Hunan Xiang Embroidery
Xiang embroidery, one of the Four Great Embroideries in China (the four schools are embroidery respectively of Suzhou, Sichuan, Guangdong and Hunan), is world famous for its exquisite technics, unique features and long history. Xiang is the shortened form for Hunan Province. Archeologists
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China Hainan coconut carving
Hainan lies in southern China and is the second largest island in China. It abounds in coconuts. With the shell of coconut as the material, Hainan Island developed a special folk art of coconut carving more than 1,000 years ago.
Hainan coconut carving was first recorded in the documents of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It began ...
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China Guangdong Embroidery
Guangdong Embroidery, together with Jiangsu Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery and Sichuan Embroidery, are the four major schools of embroidery in China.
It is rooted in Guangdong Province with a long history of over 1,000 years, dating back to the first year during the Yongzhen reign of the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
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Chinese silk embroidery introduction
China is the first country in the world that discovered the use of silk. Silkworms were domesticated as early as 5000 years ago. The production of silk thread and ...
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Chinese Cloisonné
Cloisonné is an enamel ware, in which the colors of the design are kept apart by thin metal strips. Major work processes include: making the red-copper roughcast, forming patterns on the roughcast with thin copper strips, filling patterns with enamel of different colors, firing, and polishing. The making of Cloisonné integrates bronze and porcelain-working skills, traditional ...
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