Suzhou embroidery or Su Xiu is the embroidery created around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and is the most representative type of art in Chinese embroidery. One of the well-known "four great embroideries of China" along with Cantonese embroidery, Sichuan embroidery and Xi...
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The Songzhuang Art Colony, located in Songzhuang Town of Tongzhou District (in the eastern suburbs of Beijing), is the most famous and biggest artist community in Beijing. More than 2,000 artists live there.Originally representing the avant-garde, the area now accommodates artists who paint in varying styles, ranging from the avant-gar...
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Longjing tea (Chinese: 龙井茶; pinyin: lóngjǐng chá), sometimes called by its literal translated name Dragon Well Tea, is a variety of pan-roasted green tea from the area of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It is produced mostly by hand and renowned for its high quality, earning it the China Famous Tea title.Nutriti...
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Doucai (Chinese: 斗彩; Wade–Giles: tou-ts'ai) is a technique in painting Chinese porcelain, where parts of the design, and some outlines of the rest, are painted in underglaze blue, and the piece is then glazed and fired. The rest of the design is then added in overglaze enamels of different colours and the piece fired again at a lower t...
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