The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: mat dolls
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The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: the small size of umbrella
November 12th, 2011
City God Temple The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: the small size of umbrella
The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: copper wire words
November 5th, 2011
City God Temple The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: copper wire words
The handicrafts in Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: Paper-cut
November 1st, 2011
City God Temple Paper-cuts are China’s most popular folk art, according to the archaeological history, Paper-cuts can be traced back to its sixth century AD, but people think the actual start time was even hundreds of years earlier than that time. Paper-cut commonly used in religious ceremonies, decorative and arts and so on. Chinese paper cutting is the [...]
The handicrafts in Shanghai Yu Garden: lifelike dough figurines
October 26th, 2011
City God Temple Dough figurines is made of sticky rice, add into different colors, with simple tools to shape a variety of life-like image. Dough figurines has been hunderds years of history in China. In the past, the dough figurines are very popular, but humble. Today, more regard is paid to dough figurines as non-material cultural heritage.
The handicraft of Yuyuan Garden: pocket-sized snuff bottles
October 24th, 2011
City God Temple Snuff bottles, in short, is snuff containers. it is easy to carry. Now the habit of people addicted to nuff almost disappeared, but the snuff bottle was handed down as a fine art, and enduring, called pocket-sized art works.
The handicrafts in Shanghai Yu Garden: small clay figurines
October 24th, 2011
City God Temple Clay figurines is one of China’s traditional crafts. Spread so far, has a long history of 180 years, of which the most well-known is “clay figurine Zhang”, named after the founder Zhang minshan. From the 1930s to today, As technology advances, clay figurines not only maintain the traditional process, in order to meet market demands, [...]
The handicrafts of Shanghai Yuyuan Garden: colorful kites
October 20th, 2011
City God Temple Chinese kites have been 2000 years of history. From the traditional Chinese kites, you can see and auspicious designs symbol and the desires of good luck. In the long times, Chinese ancestors not only create a beautiful Chinese text and drawings, also created a lot of auspicious patterns reflecting people’s desire and pursuit of a [...]
The lovely eggshell painting in Shanghai Yu Garden
October 20th, 2011
City God Temple Shell painting is a kind of folk art, its carrier is a variety of egg shell of birds, as pigeons, chickens, ducks, geese, ostrich, hand-painting above the shell. In traditional egg painting, artisans often painted legends, landscapes, flowers, birds, fish and insects, ladies, etc., Eggshell painting is like the small concentration of the world, thousands [...]
The exquisite handicrafts in shanghai City God temple
October 17th, 2011
City God Temple Arts and crafts gallery in Shanghai City God Temple is a place deserve visiting, where you can enjoy: dolls made out of mats, lifelike dough figurines, delicate paper cutting, painting a variety of styles of Copper wire drawing, snuff bottles of various shapes, colorful kite, small size of umbrella, naive small clay figurines, small masks, [...]


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