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| | Hui'an Granite Sculpture [edit this] | | Hui'an granite sculpture is a folk carving craftwork, made from top quality granite (shining-green rock) and carved finely into different sizes of delicate handicrafts, such as round carving, floating carving, line carving, and shadow carving. The granite sculptures produced in Hui-an can be either large as the size which should be lifted and installed by cranes or can be small as the size which can float on the surface of the water. They are beautiful in shape, fine in workmanship, unique in artistic style and strong in local characteristics. Hui'an granite sculpture has a history of 1,600 years, well-known as the “home of granite sculptures”. | Edit by: Dorothy | |
| Dehua Ceramics [edit this] | | Dehua ceramics is the traditional craftwork. It was started in the Tang Dynasty, developed in Song and Yuan Dynasties and made a breakthrough in Ming Dynasty. The white ceramics produced in Dehua have the reputation of being “white as snow, thin as paper, smooth as jade”. Dehua ceramics is famous especially for its statue of Kuanyin which was made by the senior master He Chaosong and named “Helai Kuan” after his name. The “Ivory White” ceramic statue developed by him is a valuable object unparallel in the world, known as the “crown jewel in the international ceramic sector”. | Edit by: Dorothy | |
| Quanzhou Puppet Head [edit this] | | Quanzhou puppets have a complete image in structure. The figures are widely selected from the figures and roles in the folk operas and legends, roughly divided into 5 major types: Sheng (male), Dan (young female), Jing (painted face, male), Mo (middle aged male), Chou (clown, male or female). There are over 300 puppet masks, which display beautiful shapes, vivid drawings, clear characters, unique artistic styles and local images. | Edit by: Dorothy | |
| Yongchun Painted Bamboo Baskets [edit this] | | Yonghcun painted bamboo baskets are unique traditional handicrafts produced locally. They are made from over 20 raw materials, including gold foil, fine bamboo skin, raw paint, Chinese wood oil, Xiabu, dongfen through over 30 procedures of moulding, boiling, lining, and painting for over two months. There are over 100 varieties of products including flat baskets, patterned baskets and full baskets, shaped in round, ridged, hexagon, oval, as well as fruit boxes and painted plates. | Edit by: Dorothy | |
| Anxi Tie Kuan-yin Tea [edit this] | | Anxi Iron Kuanyin Tea also known as heart Kuanyin tea and red shape Kuanyin tea. It is the top quality Wulong Tea, the famous tea produced in Fujian Province. The iron Kuanyin tea produced in Anxi County, Quanzhou Municipality contains a number of biological alkaline, vitamins and tannin, protein and aromatic oil. It has the special function of easing anxiety, improving eyesight, preventing arteriosclerosis and cancer, extending youth and mitigating radiation. | Edit by: Dorothy | |
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