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Maliu Embroidery
Basic Introduction to Maliu EmbroideryMaliu Embroidery is a folk cross-stitch embroidery from Liuxiang, Chaotian District. Maliu embroidery women use various colored local threads to embroider on different types of local cloth. The patterns they create depict themes such as love and happiness, farming and harvesting, entertainment and dance, or flowers, birds, insects, and fish, all imbued with the spirit of northern Sichuan and a strong rustic charm. As it is handmade by cross-stitching, Maliu embroidery has a strong individual character and is highly valuable for collectors. Many tourists and collectors both domestically and internationally cherish them as precious treasures, taking great pleasure in collecting them.The "Chinese Folk Art Hometown," Liuxiang, is renowned at home and abroad for its rustic Maliu customs and folk embroidery. It is said that the people of Maliu are descended from Han Chinese assimilation of the Qiang ethnic group. People in Maliu like to wear clothes embroidered with exquisite patterns and live in stilt houses known as "main house with side pavilions." They enjoy singing mountain songs, playing gongs (drums), and lion-dragon dances... their simple folkways are similar to those of the Qiang people. Maliu embroidery is a handicraft passed down from generation to generation. In… -
A glimpse of Jingtailan artworks at Beijing Enamel Factory
Zhong Liansheng and a craftsman apply filigree on Jingtailan artwork at Beijing Enamel Factory in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2024. ( tasteallchina /Zhang Haofu) Introduced from the Arabian countries during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and became popular during the "Jingtai" years of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), "Jingtailan" represents a special localized cloisonne wrought of copper and porcelain. With patterns structured with copper wires and painted with enamel glaze all on a copper body, dozens of procedures including burning, grinding and gilding are applied to make a Jingtailan piece. Within 600 years, the craftwork are integrated into the traditional Chinese art. Beijing Enamel Factory, first set up in 1956, is the only China Time-honored Brand in Jingtailan making now also serves as a production and protection base of the crafts. Over the past 60 plus years, the factory cradled a team made up of professional Jingtailan craftsmen, and Zhong Liansheng, a Chinese Master of Arts and Crafts, is one of the best. Zhong Liansheng, general manager of the Beijing Enamel Factory, is a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor for the Jingtailan cloisonne. Zhong started his career in 1978 when he began to learn the art in a school, and… -
Winter scenery of Mapam Yumco Lake in China’s Xizang
This aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows winter scenery of the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. (Photo by Tenzin Norbu/ tasteallchina ) Located on an altitude of 4,588 meters, the Mapam Yumco Lake is considered one of the three sacred lakes in Xizang. This photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows piled-up ice in a wavy pattern on the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. ( tasteallchina /Guan Minghui) This photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows winter scenery of the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. ( tasteallchina /Liu Wenbo) This photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows piled-up ice on the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. ( tasteallchina /Guan Minghui) This aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows winter scenery of the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. (Photo by Tenzin Norbu/ tasteallchina ) This photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024 shows piled-up ice on the Mapam Yumco Lake in Burang County of Ngari Prefecture,…
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