Four Distinguished Embroidery Styles of China
Embroidery is a traditional Chinese handicraft art, which is divided into the Suzhou, Sichuan, Guangdong and Hunan schools.
Suzhou Embroidery is celebrated for its sophisticated stitching, vivid pictures, beautiful patterns and elegant colors. Sichuan Embroidery is noted for neatness, bright colors and rich local flavor. Guangdong Embroidery is famous for its splendid colors. Hunan Embroidery emphasizes vivid patterns. These four schools are treasures of Chinese traditional handicraft arts.




Suzhou embroidery


Rongchang Folding Fans
The folding fan is a folk handicraft for use in cooling oneself in summer, and is also used as a decoration or a stage prop in traditional Chinese operas. Due to their fine workmanship, the folding fans produced in Rongchang, Chongqing, are prized both at home and abroad. Since ancient times, Rongchang folding fans have been sold well throughout the country, as well as to India, Myanmar and other countries.




Folk Embroidery of Southern Shanxi Province
The folk embroidery of southern Shanxi Province features popular motifs, such as a peacock spreading its tail, a magpie on the branch of a plum tree, pines and cranes as symbols of long life, two dragons playing with a ball, and a phoenix and a peony.
These embroidery items have varied themes: Some are romantic, some are exaggerative and the others reflect the reality. Vivid and true to life, they are for both practical and ornamental uses.




Huishan Clay Figurines
Tongliang Dragon Lantern
Tongliang County in Chongqing Municipality has a long history of making dragon lanterns and performing the local dragon dance. The Tongliang Dragon dance uses large stage properties and exaggerated movements, and is accompanied by folk wind and percussion instruments. In the first Beijing International Tour Year Dragon Lantern Dance Contest, held in 1998, the Tongliang Dragon Lantern won the Gold Cup. Tongliang Dragon Lanterns are now known all over the world, and have been sold to Japan, and many countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Europe and America.



Shanxi papercuts
Huishan Clay Figurines
The Huishan clay figurines made in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province emerged in the Ming Dynasty and have a history of over 400 years. Thanks to their unique art style, these colored figurines have been well received by the Chinese people throughout the country and have been sold to 50 countries and regions. Masters of the art have given demonstrations in Japan, the U.S., Australia and other countries. Hence Huishan clay figurines display the best color modeling art in the East.

Shanxi Folk Papercuts
The papercuts of Shanxi feature a wide variety of themes, including flowers, human figures, animals, legends, folk tales and stories from operatic works, and showing a bold and unrestrained style, simple and unsophisticated presentation and strong local characteristics. There are two types-colored and monochrome.

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