Guo Weijun (L) teaches his apprentice Liu Xingqiang to polish a jade teaport in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2019. As one of the eight unique arts and crafts in ancient Beijing, jade carving ...

Mi has been in the cloisonne trade for more than six decades, according to Bai, who himself is a national inheritor of the gold lacquer inlaying. "Gold lacquer inlay involves various intricate ...

June 14 marks China’s 2025 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. To celebrate the occasion, the Beijing Eight Imperial Handicrafts Museum in Shijingshan District hosted a special event featuring eight ...

In my last column on Costa Rica’s extraordinary and prolific jade carving tradition, always involving high status and religious symbolism, we saw that significant lapidary work in jade or similar ...

Walking into Yuan Changjun's studio in northwest Beijing's Changping district, a large silver statue of a celestial maiden playing a reversed pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute, in a flying motion ...

Among artworks that were unveiled in Changle county, Weifang city, East China's Shandong province, in late May, a decorative plate stood out. The plate features a dark brown wooden frame carved with ...