Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors ...

Every week, Talking Points gives you a worksheet to practise your reading comprehension with exercises about the story we’ve written. Waves, blossoms and clouds are just a few of the patterns in ...

Bronze medal winner of the second International Pattern Design Competition, created by Dong Jin, an associate professor at Taiyuan University, inspired by Shanxi paper-cutting art. CHINA DAILY Young ...

Quail, goose and ostrich eggshells carved with traditional Chinese patterns and figures are laid side by side on the shelves as warm spotlights underneath shine through, giving off a translucent and ...

This summer, secondary school students were invited to embark on a creative journey at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which showcases artefacts from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing, ...

In Dehua county, East China's Fujian Province, workers at a local ceramics company have been busy crafting new-year-themed porcelain pieces. Here, shelves are lined with ceramics of all shapes and ...

Retailers of delicately embroidered traditional Chinese garments such as tangzhuang jackets and qipao dresses celebrated booming sales during the Spring Festival. Sun Xing, a garment shop owner at a ...