Cultural heritage around China

Picture taken on April 30, 2006 shows a multi-coloured woodcut print featuring daily life at Ae village in Maguan county of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The village boasts an over 30-year history of woodcut painting arts. They are famous for their delicate woodcut prints depicting their unique daily life. In the year 2005, they created coloured woodcut technic, a great improvement to the old art. (Xinhua Photo)

Picture taken on April 30, 2006 shows a woodcut print featuring harvest in autumn at Ae village in Maguan county of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Xinhua Photo)

People of China's Zhuang ethnic group carve woodblocks at Ae village in Maguan county of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 30, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)

Lu Zhenglin (R), chairman of local woodcut association, shows his works at Ae village in Maguan county of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 30, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)

Photo taken on May 8, 2006 shows a clay sculpture work by Yue Yunsheng, a folk artist in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province. Yue is famous for moulding statues of farmers in north and west China who are featuring modest and straightforward. (Xinhua Photo)

Photo taken on May 8, 2006 shows a clay sculpture work by Yue Yunsheng, a folk artist in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province. (Xinhua Photo)

Yue Yunsheng, a folk artist, displays a clay sculpture to photographer in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province May 8, 2006.  (Xinhua Photo)

Picture taken on April 27, 2006 shows the tools and an unfinished work of "inked-paper-cut", a newly invented handicraft by Zhao Wenping, a boutique runner in Hailun city of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. Zhao, starting the paper cuting from January 2005, has created over 200 works that are not for sale but only to be presented as gifts. (Xinhua Photo)

Picture taken on April 27, 2006 shows works of "inked-paper-cut", a newly invented handicraft by Zhao Wenping, a boutique runner in Hailun city of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. (Xinhua Photo)

Picture taken on April 27, 2006 shows Zhao Wenping putting a finishing touch on her work of "inked-paper-cut" in Hailun city of northeast China's Heilongjiang province. (Xinhua Photo)

Photo taken on May 6, 2006 shows a huge Chinese calligraphy work of a single character "dragon", in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. The character was written on a 58-meter-long, 28-meter-wide piece of cloth by calligrapher Zhang Kesi to greet the China International Horticultural Exposition 2006 held in Shenyang. The total length of the character's stroke is 143 meters. (Xinhua Photo)

Calligrapher Zhang Kesi writes Chinese character "dragon" in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 6, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)

Calligrapher Zhang Kesi(in red) writes Chinese character "dragon" in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 6, 2006.  (Xinhua Photo)

Photo taken on May 6, 2006 shows a huge Chinese calligraphy work of a single character "dragon" in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua Photo)

Ren Wei, daughter of 72-year-old Ren Benrong learns to stitch in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 1, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)

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Ren Benrong displays a fragment of Han embroidery dated in the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 1, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)