- [Custom]Inscribed Board Custom
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Inscribed board, also known as flat inscribed board or flat plaque, tablet board, is usually shortened as "flat", "tablet" or "board". All the boards inscribed with large characters on palace, chamber, hall, kio...
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- [Custom]Grandma's Tea (Apo Tea)
- Grandma's Tea (Apo Tea) is a kind of folk custom handed down from the ancient time in the water country of Shangta Town in the west of the Dianshan Lake of Shanghai's suburb Qingpu. The farmers especially the old women in rural area like visi...
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- [Custom]The Song of Crying Marriage and Crying Funeral in Nanhui
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The song of crying marriage and crying funeral have been handed down for hundreds of years in the Nanhui area, which is the southern suburb of Shanghai.
The song of crying marriage is sung by girls when they are leaving home for the weddin...
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- [Traditional Trades]Shi Family Traumatology Department
- As a famous bone traumatology department of traditional Chinese medicine, Shi family traumatology department is one of China's important school of its kind. It has witnessed a century of rain and wind, and won high reputation both at home and abroad...
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- [Folk Arts]"Dough Figurine Zhao" (“面人赵”)
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Chinese dough figurine, also known as sticky rice flour toy or molding dough figurines, is developed from the folk pastry decoration in the late Qing Dynasty. Zhao Kuoming was the creator of Shanghai dough figurine and he was named "Dou...
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- [Folk Arts]Workmanship of Making Inkpad (鲁庵印泥制作技艺)
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Lu'an inkpad is top grade product of its own kind. Compared with Xileng inkpad, Qianquan inkpad and others, Lu'an inkpad is the best one. It has the following characteristics: the ink is brilliant and elegant, the quality is tenuous and clea...
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- [Folk Arts]Sanlin Embroidery (三林刺绣)
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Sanlin embroidery is specific to the Sanlin area of Shanghai. In the ancient time, Sanlin embroidery was named "Jun Embroidery". The makers pull colored threads through a background material with embroidery needles to stitch colore...
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- [Folk Arts]Wang Jingen Stone Carving (王金根石雕)
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Stone carving, which takes stone as its material, is one kind of China's traditional art and craft.
In 1937, Wang Jingen was born in Xinbei Village in Shuyuan Town. He apprenticed with his father-in-law to learn wood carving, and in the 19...
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