In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...

Their journey began at the Hangzhou Museum of Lunar Calendar, China's first rural museum dedicated to the Chinese calendar.

In the China Pavilion at the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, a piece of bamboo art resembling a Taihu Lake Stone was the center of attention. Qian Lihuai's bamboo weaving ...

When Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon showcased a stunning bamboo forest fight scene in 2000, the world was dazzled by the mastery of Chinese bamboo culture. But this plant, which embodies the ...

Artisan Shibata Megumi is on a mission to preserve Torigoe bamboo weaving, an ancient handicraft tradition from her native Iwate Prefecture that faces the dual dilemma of withering stands of source ...

Basket weaving is an art traditionally practised by women as a hobby and a source of income. However, elderly men from the Ihwagi area in Mathira, Nyeri County, have taken on bamboo basket weaving as ...

Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo hairpins in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. Zhang Yongjie, a 71-year-old farmer, began to learn ...

It was at the Agartala Central Jail that Krishna Das Pal learnt the craft of ‘fine bamboo weaving’. As a ‘jail police’, as local craftsmen refer to him, he fine-tuned the craft to such an extent that ...

"Bamboo weaving lacks documented records, the skills have always been passed down orally. I spent a considerable period interviewing seasoned artisans and meticulously compiling records of weaving ...