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Wooden fish is a percussion instrument made of a hollow wooden block originally used by Buddhist priest to beat rhythm when chanting scriptures. 
These are two kinds of wooden fish: one is round in shape with scales carved on it. It is said that fishes don’t close their eyes when sleeping to remind the chanting monks [...]

Chinese traditional furniture has a strong aesthetic appeal due to its apparently simple lines and the fact that it makes use of “natural materials” such as the finest hardwoods-no fusty stuffed couches here. Ready comparisons can be made to Danish furniture, with its sparse lines.

 
Huanghuali medicine chest

With Chinese furniture, you see what you get. Nothing [...]

by courtesy of Qiu Huanxing and Lu Zhongmin,
the authors of Folk Customs Of China
In the Yunnan local dialect, a small intermontane plain is called a bazi. Baofengba in Puning County is a village inhabited by the Hans. When I saw Luo Meiying, the township leader, she wore a typical peasant dress: a black cloth scarf [...]

Chinese potted landscapes have been famous for centuries and often described as “soundless poetry”, “stereoscopic painting”, or “living sculpture”. In a pot no larger than a wash basin, the ingenious craftsmen create a miniature reproduction of a natural scene using stunted trees and plants, rocks and sometimes water.
When potted landscapes were first grown it was [...]

On any given day of the week, working days as well as holidays, you will find the people of Nanyang and Zhoukou in Henan Province creating rustic-looking yet colourful clay toys. Children, who like to play with them, call them “Nini Gou” (clay puppy) since most of these moulded figures are in the shape of [...]

Chinese potted landscapes have been famous for centuries and often described as “soundless poetry”, “stereoscopic painting”, or “living sculpture”. In a pot no larger than a wash basin, the ingenious craftsmen create a miniature reproduction of a natural scene using stunted trees and plants, rocks and sometimes water.
When potted landscapes were first grown it was [...]

Paper cutting is a populare Chinese folk art which is popular for its visual enjoyment and high skills.It can be made of paper, golden and silver foil, leather and more.Paper cuttings has a long history in China and was originally used to decorate windows and that’s why it is also called window flowers.
Paper cuttings are [...]

Pingding procelain,one of the most popular porcelain in China.It has a long history and the earliest official records about it were found on a book of Ming Dynasty of China.Now,I will introduce you the Process of making of Pingding procelain.
Get the soil.

Grind the soil in the machine with water.

Get the slurry.
 
Rub the soil.

Make porcelain on [...]

Wang Chifeng,a kite craftsman living in Beijing China,started learning making kites sice he was 7 years old and now have a decades of experience of making kites.He is good at combining weaving, pasting, and painting with fine craftsmanship and he his worksalways comibe his unique ideas in them.His works not only have folk charm but [...]

Yang Fuxi is a bow and arrow craftsman in Beijing China.He is the tenth generation successor of Juyuan workshop which was originally a royal weapon factory Qing Dynasty.Now,it is the only remaining bow and arrow workshop in north China.

Juyuan Workshop’s bow are very complicated in producting process.About 200 processes are needed before a bow is [...]