Wang Hongmiao works on a gourd pyrography handicraft at his home in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 4, 2019. Wang Hongmiao, a 57-year-old self-taught craftsman, has made over 1,000 ...
An inheritor carves a gourd pyrography piece featuring a dragon. [Photo by Li Dandan for chinadaily.com.cn] The studio of Si Chun'e, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the gourd ...
Over the past 20 years, 65-year-old Xue Gailian has used pyrography-a form of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi province-to decorate gourds and help fellow villagers make money. Two decades ago, ...
When you pick up a dried gourd, you feel a cool hardness and a mysterious sense of presence in its unique, constricted ...
Niu Chengguo has carried a flame for the craft of gourd pyrography since childhood and is trying to help the intangible cultural heritage to find its place in the new era. Niu Chengguo was beyond ...
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Wang Hongmiao works on a gourd pyrography handicraft at his home in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 4, 2019. Wang Hongmiao, a 57-year-old self-taught craftsman, has made over 1,000 ...