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Arts and
crafts are the wonderful works of art in the cultural and art
treasure house of the Chinese nation. Carving embroidery, and
porcelain, glassware, weaving, printing and dyeing, replicas of
ancient cultural relics are all exquisite in craft and of varied
graceful bearing. Cloisonneis the special traditional handicraft
of Beijing, and Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain is the representative
porcelain of China. China's hand-made carpets sell briskly on
international markets. Suzhou, Hunan, Guangdong and Sichhuan embroidery
are known as China's "four large famous embroideries". Zhejiang's
Dongyang wood carving and bambooware, Tianjin's painted clay figurines
by artisan Zhang, Shandong's straw and willow article's Henan's
Luoyang Tang tri-color horses and camels, Guizhou's batik, Jiangsu's
Wuxi Hui clay figurines and the four treasures of study: Anhui's
Xuan paper and ink stick, Guangdong's Zhaoqing Duan ink slab and
Zhejiang's Wuxing Shanlian Hu writing brush, as well as folk scissor
cut created by women farmers are all long-famous handicrafts.
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