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Jade and Jade Carving	Cloisonne	Chinese Seal	Chinese Snuff Bottles
Chinese Ceramics	Chinese Painting	Chinese Calligraphy & Writing Brush	Chinese Porcelain
Wood Carving of Huizhou	Dongba Wood Carving	Folk Embroidery	Silk
Folk Printing and Dyeing	Shadow Puppetry	Beijing Opera and Facial Makeup	Chinese Acrobatics
Wushu and Qigong	Chinese Tie	Papercutting	Chinese Lantern
Sedan Chair	Chopsticks	Kite	Chinese Zodiac

Papercutting

Papercutting is a long-standing, widely-spread folk art in China. It calls for a pair of scissors to cut color papers into various designs. On the occasion of the Spring Festival, wedding, and other happy events, people prefer to paste beautiful, bright-colored papercuts on the white window paper or window glass as well as on the walls, doors, and lanterns to heighten the joyous atmosphere. Papercutting is rich in content and conveys a profoundly implied meaning. It touches on such subjects as flowers, birds, fish, insects, animals, legendary heroes, characters in operas, bamboo, fruits, vegetables, and which the people place their hope and pursuit are important content. With a strong Chinese national feature, papercutting is a concentration as well as an exaggeration of the traditional Chinese fine arts.