As Spring Festival approaches, the ongoing exhibition of traditional Chinese New Year pictures at the Guangdong Museum provides an artistic and cultural angle for understanding this important event.
Kites by Yang family help industry, nation soar chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-22 15:22 Share CLOSE Yang Hongwei makes a kite in Weifang, East China s Shandong province, on April 16, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Yang Hongwei, inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of East China s Shandong province, has been learning how to make kites from her grandfather Yang Tongke since 1982.
She had been making and flying kites in Beijing and Shenzhen, before returning home to Yangjiabu village, or Yang family village, in Weifang city, where she began focusing on the craft in 1992.
She developed the innovative approach of combining Chinese New Year paintings with kite making. The kites she creates are beautiful and also fly very well.