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Anxi tea production added to UN list
2022-05-24
A tea production system in Anxi, East China's Fujian province was listed among the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on Friday.
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ICH inheritor plays key role in Zhangpu paper-cutting preservation
2022-05-18
Lin Tao (1905-2010), one of four renowned Zhangzhou paper-cutting artists, used her superb abilities and ingenuity to document the customs of coastal communities in Southern Fujian.
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The East and West pagodas, Quanzhou, Fujian province
2022-04-25
The acclaimed landmarks of Quanzhou city, the East and West pagodas, are the tallest existing pair of stone pagodas completed in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in China.
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Ancient lacquer craft preserved by Fuzhou artisan
2022-04-22
A lacquer artisan in Fuzhou, Fujian province, hopes to carry forward the city's traditional technology and culture of bodiless lacquerware through persistence and innovation.
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Nail-less construction technique a bridge from past to present
2022-01-20
Thanks to decades of perseverance by traditional craftsmen, a 1,000-year-old wooden arch bridge in Ningde city, Fujian province, has managed to survive, and the skills used to make it have been adapted to modern life.
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Techniques of famed lacquer art protected in Fujian
2021-11-15
Fujian province recently rolled out a series of regulations to protect the traditional bodiless lacquer techniques that were born in Fuzhou and are an artistic treasure renowned at home and abroad.
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Master brings new life to Liancheng string puppet shows
2021-11-09
As Li Mingqin manipulated the strings of a puppet to write Chinese characters and to play the jinghu, a two-stringed bowed instrument with a high register, a social practice team made up of postgraduate students from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music was watching the show closely. Li is a string puppet master in Liancheng county, Fujian province, where the craft has a history of over 100 years. Drawing on the essence of local folk drama arts, Liancheng string puppet show was classified as a Fujian intangible cultural heritage item in 2009.