Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in Greater China, or by Chinese artists. The painting, calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes, jade carving, and other fine or decorative art forms produced in ancient China.
A three-day programme run by the Hunan provincial culture and tourism department took 45 heritage crafts and 95 named inheritors into a Changsha neighbourhood, an office park and a riverside town between 25 and 27 October, one venue per day. Organised under the title Experiencing Hunan Heritage, Meeting a Better Life, the series is the […]
A needle tradition that has run for roughly 1,350 years in the black-soil country of Heilongjiang reached Hong Kong on October 13, when the Himalaya Gallery on the 26th floor of MassMutual Tower, 38 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, opened a thematic exhibition of Manchu embroidery, the national-level intangible cultural heritage practised as Bohai Mohe embroidery. […]
On October 1, a craft better known in southeastern Shanxi opened in a Beijing factory-turned-art district. “Pile Brocade of Shangdang, Breaking Boundaries to Be Born Anew”, a themed exhibition of Shangdang pile brocade, began at the 751 Shulin Gallery in the 798 Art Zone and runs to October 15, carrying the craft out of Shanxi […]
For four nights around National Day, the China National Arts and Crafts Museum handed its floor to people who make things rather than to a professional troupe. Between October 3 and 5, the museum, which also carries the name China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, staged four holiday performances of Keyiguan (可以观), a public-education programme it […]
Over the National Day holiday, a costume pageant in Laifeng county, Hubei, sent 12 examples of Xilankapu down a stage alongside Tujia dress, drawing crowds to a craft most visitors had only read about. Behind the show, the county’s ethnic museum had news of its own: its first batch of 23 century-old, endangered Xilankapu textiles […]
Inside the Qinhuai Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall, at 21 Chaoku Street in Nanjing’s Qinhuai district, a cluster of blossoms sits under glass without water and still holds a soft sheen. The petals are silk. In the cases, Ronghua, or velvet flowers, appear as hairpins, brooches, bouquets and desk ornaments, with birds, fish and insects worked […]
Nine years of stitching, 121 named stitches, 80 embroiderers and 1,132 birds and animals: those are the numbers behind a scroll of Tibetan embroidery that was certified in Xining on September 24 as the world’s longest, at 270 metres end to end and 2.6 metres high. Certification came at the launch of the Guinan Tibetan […]
A handscroll nearly seven meters long, crowded with figures, carts, bridges and water, was once remade in thread. The 1959 Bian embroidery version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival hangs at the Tsinghua University Art Museum, and its inscription records an improbable schedule: 22 women workers at the Kaifeng Bian Embroidery Factory, 35 […]
A carnival dedicated to ethnic handicrafts made its debut at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS). On the afternoon of September 9, the first “Jingcai Jiangxin, Liuyun Huazhang” carnival for integrated innovation in ethnic handicraft industries opened in step with CIFTIS at Beijing’s Shougang Park, running through September 13 around the […]
When the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) opened at Beijing’s Shougang Park on September 9, drawing about 90 countries and international organizations, a first-time exhibitor from Chengdu used the stage to put Sichuan’s handwoven and embroidered couture in front of international buyers. The West China Haute Couture Center occupied its own […]
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