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A Heritage Worthy of Protection
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| An Exhibition of Selected Yangliuqing New Year Pictures shows at the National Art Museum of China in the center of Beijing ended this month. |
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Earlier Folk Art Guardian Recollects
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| Yangliuqing New Year pictures boast the well-preserved and large stock of high quality vintage woodblocks and sketches by artisans from centuries ago. |
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New Version of Kunqu Opera Peach Blossom Fan
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| The production of a new version of classic Kunqu Opera Peach Blossom Fan recently started production in Nanjing. |
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Folk Artists Key to Preserving Cultural Heritage
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| The Chinese Academy of Arts has invited 30 folk artists to act as researchers, a move by the government seen as a big step towards the preservation of the country's "intangible cultural heritage". The 30 are experts in Chinese folk arts such as paper-cutting, clay moulding, kite making and Tibetan tongka making (silk or satin scroll painting). |
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Peking Opera Opens English Cathedral City's Arts Festival
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| The National Peking Opera Theatre (Company), with the country's leading traditional opera performers, will open the 2005 Salisbury International Arts Festival on Friday in this quintessentially English city. |
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China Invests US$6 Million to Revitalize Kunqu Opera
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| China's central government has decided to spend 10 million yuan (about US$1.2 million) per year from 2005 to 2009 to revitalize Kunqu Opera, said a source with the ongoing national meeting about Kunqu Opera. |
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Farmers Take to the Stage
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| On an early summer day, Ding Fasheng, a farmer-turned barnstormer from central China's Henan Province, is leading a group of people in rehearsals for a new magic show inside his two-story villa. |
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Saving Endangered Folk Art
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| Few would deny that China's modernization has brought substantial benefits. But even as the country advances, its millennia-old folk culture is on the brink of marginalization or even extinction.
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Folk Music Makes It into the Classroom
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| The first ever folk music master class given by world-renowned musicians like Tan Dun and Ma Xiaohui to school children was held yesterday at the Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School. |
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Bamboo Slip Version of Anti-secession Law
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| Xiao Wenfa completed a bamboo slip version of the anti-secession law in Hunan's Shaoyang City on Apr. 14th. The 86.4 cm long bamboo slip folding sheet is elaborately fabricated with 72 pieces of 26 cm long, 1.2 cm wide bamboo in 8 layouts. |
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