Ceramic Artist Gao Feng：In Pursuit of Glory of Life

In the beginning of his career, Gao Feng served as an apprentice in a ceramic workshop, doing errands for his masters. With several months of practicing and training, he acquainted himself with every process of ceramic making and developed interest in this profession dealing with clay and fire, One year later, he was transferred to the ceramic studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. At that time, except Jingdezhen and a few other ceramic sites in frontier areas, the technique of ceramic throwing had been generally replaced by machine molding and infilling.     

Shiwan Miniature Sculpture

<正>Shiwan miniature sculpture, a popular folk art also called "Shan Gong", is part of Shiwan’s ceramic culture and has been proclaimed as an item of national-     

THE GAME OF GO AND SONG-DYNASTY GO STONES

Recently,I was lucky to see a set of go stones made in the Ding Kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty,The ceramic go stones feel so delicate and glossy as if the black ones were like lacquer and white ones like jade.     

Artist Couple Dedicates Themselves to Ceramic Art

The history of ceramics can date back to the Neolithic Age several thousand years ago. But ceramic making as an art sees only a brief course of history. In ancient China,every major dynasty highlighted its unique ceramic style, such as the tri-color painted pottery of the Tang Dynasty, the glazed porcelain of the Song Dynasty and the blue-and-white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.     

Bai Ming Patches Up Fragments of Civilization

In the 1980s, he exchanged his grandfather＇s curio collections for a color TV set, a refrigerator and a cassette recorder, the three popular luxuries of the time. He called himself a ＂spendthrift＂ of his family then. In the 1990s, he dug for ceramic fragments in the demolishment site in Ping＇an Avenue and therefore gained the nickname ＂Fragment Bai＂. In 2000, he co founded ＂Mu Ming Tang＂, a museum to display ancient ceramic fragments, and obtained a new title,     

Li Qing Dedicated to Art of Fire

Ceramics is an art of fire. The tension and flexibility of earth are extended in the artist＇s hands to show the unique textural beauty and subtle feelings of the artist and original materials from the nature are mixed and tempered by fire. This complicated process demonstrates the artist＇s particular ideas, feelings and dispositions. In the eyes of Li Qing, a young artist from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, that is the very nature of ceramics that fascinates him so much.     

Blue-and-White Porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty

China is the hometown of porcelain, Over the sweep of the porcelain history of China, blue- and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty [1271 -1368] is recognized as an important and special genre. Every museum and collector in the world would feel proud if its collection includes a piece of blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.     

Shaoxing East Lake： A Miniature Landscape

The East Lake is situated five kilometers to the east of the historic city of Shaoxing. With a wonderful combination of a hill, grottoes and stone bridges, it might pass for a miniature landscape. On a par with the West Lake in Hangzhou and the South Lake in Jiaxing, it is one of the three most famous lakes in southeast Zhejiang Province. Although it is quite small, its delicacy and elegance rank it among the best resorts in Shaoxing.     

Hetian: the Hometown of Jade and Stone

Hetian, also known as "Yutian" in ancient times, means "a place producing jadestone". It is located in the southernmost tip of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,neighboring Taklimakan Desert in the north and Mt. Kunlun in the south. For hundreds of years in history, it was a strategically important town along the southern route of the Silk Roads.In Chinese culture, jade is a symbol of virtue, dignityand goodness. Jade produced in Hetian is generally     

The Flowery March

The ＂Misty Rain Building＂is a century-old famous restaurant in Yangzhou City. It is the proud owner of the ＂Flowery March＂tablet granted by a Qing Emperor. Boss of the restaurant Uncle Xu enjoys a good reputation in the culinary community in Yangzhou.     

Wenxi Huamo:Intangible Cultural Heritage Created by Mothers

The very ordinary steamed buns have become exquisite craftwork in Shanxi province, a once very rich province in China, and it is passed on from generation to generation. In many northern cities, there is a custom of steaming flowery buns, also known as huamo, a kind of steamed bun of different patterns. There is a saying that if there is huamo, there will be an event; and if there is an event     

798:Beijing’s Soho Art Village

In Dashanzi outside the northeast4th loop road in Beijing, there is a factorynumbered 798. Old residents in Beijingperhaps know that it was a secret factoryin the past. But now it has become aworld famous Soho art village.On a weekend in the hot summer, Ivisited the studio of Prof. Wang Tieniufrom the art school of TsinghuaUniversity, which is located in 798Factory. He was revising a huge oilpainting which featured an anti-Japanesebattle scene. “This oil work is created inhonor of the 6…     

Splendor of Chinese Porcelain The exhibition of porcelain art of ancient China held in the National Museum of China

China is the world’s earliest ceramic producer and porcelain inventor. As early as in the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC – ca. 1600 BC), green-glazed ceramics, quite similar to porcelain wares, appeared in China. By the 2nd century AD, ancient Chinese succeeded in producing porcelain wares with radiant glaze, transparent texture, low water absorption and clear resonance, at the     

TEMPLES OF MATSU IN GUIZHOU

Matsu, or the Goddess of Sea is widely worshipped in coastal areas of China and temples are built in these areas to enshrine statues of Matsu or Heavenly Queen. But it is quite interesting that there are quite a few Matsu temples in the inland province of Guizhou. Among these temples, the Heavenly Queen temple in Zhenyuan County is the largest, best-preserved and finest-built one and proclaimed as a site under the province-level protection.     

China to Kick Off Structural Reform in Culture

＂Comprenenszvely aeepening reform＂is a key phase in China in 2014. Structural reform in culture constitutes an important aspect of the comprehensive reform in economy, politics, culture, society and ecology. The Implementation Plan on Deepening Structural Reform in the Cultural Sector, recently approved by the central government, marks a milestone in China＇s new campaign of market-oriented reform and heralds a new round of cultural restructuring. The curtain has raised and a significant reform is about to kick off.     

Chinese Rubbing

<正>Rubbing is a unique way of documentation in China. It is a technique to make copies of inscribed records, using paper and ink. Invented in Wei, Jin, South an...     

Under-glazed Red Porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty

Under-glazed red porcelain is known as one of the most outstanding genres of ceramics of ancient China. It is generally recognized that under- glazed red porcelain and blue and white porcelain appeared in the same period and the same place, that is, Jingdezhen in the Yuan Dynasty （I 206 - 1368）.     

Famen Temple： Past and Present

＂Bodhi is actually not in the form of tree while a bright mirror is not a material object. Since there is nothing physical in the world, how can they catch the dust？＂ This poem, written by senior monk Hui Neng in the early Tang Dynasty [618 - 907], revealed the profundity of Buddhism and helped facilitate social evolution of the time.     

Opera of Zeng Family： A Theatric Legend

T he repertoire of Meng opera is mostly involved with the legend about Meng Jiangnu wailing in the Great Wall which happened in the Qin Dynasty. This theatric expression can date back to the mid-Ming Dynasty. Five hundred years of evolution have made it a folk art form integrating clan sacri ce and theatric performance. There is a popular legend about the origin of Meng opera. It is said that in 1447, Zeng Zihua, an ancestor of Zeng family in Chixi, carried his blind mother on his back a…     

Ou-style Embroidery： Part of Brilliant Chinese Traditions

Wenzhou, located in the southeast province of Zhejiang, is known as a ＂hometown of craftsmanship＂, with such distinctive folk craft arts as Ou-style embroidery, Huangyang wood carving and fine-patterned paper carving. Ou-style embroidery is indigenous to the valley of the Ou River in Wenzhou, celebrated as a unique craft art of Zhejiang. This type of embroidery is highly decorative with distinctive local characteristics.