Enchanted by the beauty of white Chinese porcelain, Marc Leuthold has spent the past two months creating contemporary artworks using the local clay and firing methods of Quyang, a county in Hebei province, with over a thousand years of ceramic-making history.

As the younger generation learns more of China's history, replicas of iconic relics let them take home a little piece of the past.

Filigree Mosaic art reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2008, Filigree Mosaic art was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage.

The first stop of the "Belt and Road" International Handicraft Art Exhibition, themed "Dialogue with World Cultures," opened in South Africa on Friday.

For Meng Genhua, a dedicated Mongolian ethnic attire artisan, her greatest joy has stemmed from seeing her business grow from a humble 20-square-meter workshop to a thriving 500-square-meter store over the course of nearly four decades.

Meng Genhua has spent decades preserving Mongolian ethnic costume traditions in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, earning recognition as one of the region's most respected designers.

In an intangible cultural heritage employment workshop in Xiji County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, several women sit around tables, busy making embroidery patterns.

​Yang Jianian is the representative inheritor and the fifth generation descendant of Yang's painted sculpture, a national intangible cultural heritage with a history of more than 200 years.

Using a blend of words and visuals, this series explores unique communities and reveals the heart of China through food, architecture, craftsmanship, landscapes and traditions.

Dutch designer Johannes Gille crafts ceramic lamp shades in Jingdezhen, the world-famous "porcelain capital" in east China's Jiangxi.

Craftspeople talk about pressure, satisfaction of continuing ancestors' work.

Handicrafts with Chinese elements are seen during a culture and tourism promotional event for Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, held in London, Britain, Sept. 17, 2024.

Potters still use traditional techniques to make pots in the ancient Majiayao style, shaping the clay on a spinning wheel, then painting the pots with a brush, and finally firing them in a kiln. In fact, there are dozens of individual steps, but the end result is pots that, at first glance, are indistinguishable from original pieces made thousands of years ago.

Under the soft glow of a lamp, 37-year-old Ruan Xiyue meticulously wields her carving knife, etching a child's face onto an egg gourd with masterful precision.

Xu Xiaoxue, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage in the province, keen to pass on the skill to more people.

Zhao, a 35-year-old resident of Wanrong county in Shanxi, hails from a family deeply rooted in the art of dough sculpture and is a sixth-generation inheritor of the Wanrong dough sculpture tradition, which can be traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220).

By integrating modern design aesthetics, Jiao fused Miao embroidery culture with contemporary elements, vividly portraying the current vibrant life of the Miao people.

Museum dedicated to ethnic clothing presents an image of countrywide grace and elegance.

A young man from Southwest China's Chongqing went viral recently for creating roughly 30 miniature replicas of old-fashioned residential balconies to reminisce about his childhood.

Dedication of one man sees translucent glaze of Qingbai porcelain make a comeback.