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  • Clay rabbits in Dongyue Temple

    2012-09-12 14:49

    Rabbit God is a symbol of old Beijing. The art craft is usually sold before the Mid-autumn festival in Beijing.

  • Making Cantonese Moon Cakes

    2012-09-17 11:16

    Folks in China have been celebrating the Mid-autumn Festival since 1,000 years ago.People from various ethnic backgrounds and regions have their own ways of celebration, yet none of them want to miss out on eating mooncake.Today we’ll learn how to make mooncakes with Ku Chifai.

  • Painted faces: Ghaffar Pourazar

    2012-09-10 16:52

    The colorful makeup of Peking Opera masks Ghaffar Pourazar's nationality, and at the same time reveals the lifelong dedication of a true lover of the art.

  • Making a Moon Cake

    2012-09-06 15:37

    Folks in China have been celebrating the Mid-autumn Festival since 1,000 years ago.Do you know that in the early days moon cakes were homemade rather than manufactured?

  • Xu Zongwei on Tibetan architecture

    2012-08-14 15:06

    Xu Zongwei began studying Tibet's traditional architecture culture in 2001. He said Tibetan architecture is influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, exchanged with Han culture, and has evolved over time with the economic development of Tibet.

  • Qapqal holds local opera competition

    2012-05-31 16:39

    A local opera competition was seen at Qapqal county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in May, 2012. This particular opera, also known as Handuchun, has a massive following from the local Xibe ethnic group.

  • ROK ambassador performs Peking opera

    2012-05-22 09:53

    ROK ambassador Lee Kyu Hyung showed off his experience of Peking opera by performing a short extract in a joint show.

  • Kites festival dazzles Beijing

    2012-05-15 13:40

    Kiting today is a sport, craft, art, show, battle and competition. SOLANA Lifestyle Shopping Park brings in a taste of Chinese tradition by borrowing ideas from the top kite craftsmen in Beijing.

  • Velvet Bird

    2012-04-24 08:33

    Can you still remember these lovely crafts and remember their names? Right, these are velvet birds, a traditional art form of ancient Beijing.

  • Huishan clay figurines

    2012-02-24 09:59

    Wuxi city's clay figurines are a Chinese famous traditional folk art, which has been around about 1,000 years. The dolls are known as Huishan clay figurines, because they originated in Wuxi city's Huishan area. Nearly every local family knows how to make them.

  • Yonghegong holds Beating Ghost ceremony

    2012-02-21 19:01

    People gathered for the Beating the Ghost ceremony, or Da Gui in Chinese, an important Tibetan Buddhist ritual, at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing on Feb 21.

  • Fun at Temple Fair: Soft ceramic art

    2012-02-03 09:12

    This episode introduces soft ceramic art, in which artists create objects by shaping clay and heating it with fire.

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  • Group a building block for Africa

    An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.
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