"Dough Figurine Zhao" (“面人赵”)
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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Workmanship of Making Inkpad (鲁庵印泥制作技艺)
  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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Sanlin Embroidery (三林刺绣)
  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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Wang Jingen Stone Carving (王金根石雕)
  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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Boxwood Carving of Shanghai Style (海派黄杨木雕)
  Wood carving art has a long history in China. Boxwood carving is called “ivory in wood" because of its tenacious wood grain, which makes it an ideal material. The characteristic of boxwood carving of shanghai style lies in the f...
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Yuepu Gong and Drum (月浦锣鼓)
  In the middle Qing Dynasty, the peddlers shouldered the goods-load to walk through the villages and lanes. They cried out while beating the side drums in hands, so as to make sonorous sound to attract the clients to come to buy something. It...
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Nanhui Kitchen Flower Painting (南汇灶花)
Kitchen flower painting is a kind of decoration painting in the kitchens of the Nanhui people. Every household makes different paintings and patterns on the "zaoshan"(a wall in the kitchens used for protecting chimney and cooking p...
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Jiading Bamboo Carving (嘉定竹刻)
  In the Reign of Zhengde Emperor and Jiajing Emperor in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu He (stlyed Ziming, and scholar name Songlin) replaced the Chinese brush with a knife to integrate the painting and calligraphy art into bamboo carving. He initiated...
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