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Princess Kako visits Osaka expo

Japan's Princess Kako is briefed about Aomori Prefecture's traditional Tsugaru lacquerware during a visit to the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako visits Osaka expo

Japan's Princess Kako works on craftwork using Aomori Prefecture's traditional Tsugaru lacquerware during a visit to the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako visits Osaka expo

Japan's Princess Kako is briefed about the Earth at Night globe made with traditional Wajima lacquerware that survived the massive Jan. 1, 2024, earthquake in the central Japan city of Wajima during a visit to the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Princess Kako visits Osaka expo

Japan's Princess Kako is briefed about the Earth at Night globe made with traditional Wajima lacquerware that survived the massive Jan. 1, 2024, earthquake in the central Japan city of Wajima during a visit to the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Princess Kako visits Osaka expo

Japan's Princess Kako looks at the Earth at Night globe made with traditional Wajima lacquerware that survived the massive Jan. 1, 2024, earthquake in the central Japan city of Wajima during a visit to the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2025.

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Kumamon visits quake-hit city in Ishikawa Pref.

Kumamon, the official mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto, makes chopsticks using a Wajima-nuri lacquerware technique at a facility in Wajima, an Ishikawa Prefecture city hit hard by the Jan. 1, 2024, massive earthquake, on Aug. 9, 2025. Kumamon is visiting various Ishikawa Prefecture cities to give encouragement to people affected by the disaster.

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Princess Kako visits lacquerware training center

Japanese Princess Kako (R) talks with a trainee during a visit to a lacquerware training center in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on April 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako visits lacquerware training center

Japanese Princess Kako talks with lacquer artists during a visit to a lacquerware training center in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on April 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako visits lacquerware training center

Japanese Princess Kako talks with a lacquer artist during a visit to a lacquerware training center in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on April 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako visits lacquerware training center

Japanese Princess Kako visits a lacquerware training center in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa on April 17, 2025. (Pool photo)

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo shows a "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware terrestrial globe from Wajima, a central Japan city hit by a massive earthquake in January 2024, unveiled to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo shows a "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware terrestrial globe from Wajima, a central Japan city hit by a massive earthquake in January 2024, unveiled to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo shows a "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware terrestrial globe from Wajima, a central Japan city hit by a massive earthquake in January 2024, unveiled to the media at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka on April 9, 2025, ahead of the event's opening on April 13.

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Japan PM visits quake-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida writes a message on Sept. 19, 2024, during a visit to a temporary workshop for traditional lacquerware in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that was built after a powerful earthquake hit the region on Jan. 1. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits quake-hit Ishikawa Pref. city

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) visits on Sept. 19, 2024, a temporary workshop for traditional lacquerware in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that was built after a powerful earthquake hit the region on Jan. 1. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida visits quake-hit Wajima city

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (L) is briefed about the damage done to lacquerware, a traditional craft of Wajima, during a visit to the Ishikawa Prefecture city on Feb. 24, 2024, in his second inspection of central Japan areas devastated by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 1. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida visits quake-hit Wajima city

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) is briefed about the damage done to lacquerware, a traditional craft of Wajima, during a visit to the Ishikawa Prefecture city on Feb. 24, 2024, in his second inspection of central Japan areas devastated by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 1. (Pool photo)

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PM Kishida visits quake-hit Wajima city

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, R) is briefed about the damage done to lacquerware, a traditional craft of Wajima, during a visit to the Ishikawa Prefecture city on Feb. 24, 2024, in his second inspection of central Japan areas devastated by a powerful earthquake on Jan. 1. (Pool photo)

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

"Wajima-nuri" lacquerware items lie scattered in a shop in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 25, 2024, following a strong earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 29, 2024, shows a collapsed lacquerware shop in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, following a strong earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1.

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(231207) -- BEIJING, Dec. 7, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Dec. 5, 2023 shows the archaeological site of a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Cultural relics unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) are seen in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Dec. 5, 2023 shows the archaeological site of a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists work in a laboratory at a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A cultural relic unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) is seen in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Dec. 5, 2023 shows the archaeological site of a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A cultural relic unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) is seen in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A cultural relic unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) is seen in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists make infrared photography of paintings at a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- An archaeologist makes archaeological drawings of the cultural relic unearthed from a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ARCHAEOLOGY-WESTERN HAN DYNASTY TOMB (CN)

(231206) -- CHONGQING, Dec. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists works at a tomb dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD) in Wulong District of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Dec. 5, 2023. A well-preserved tomb, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty, with a clear recorded year has been discovered in Wulong District of Chongqing Municipality, the Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute said Tuesday. More than 600 precious cultural relics such as lacquerware, wood ware, bamboo ware, pottery and bronze ware were unearthed from the tomb. This archaeological project is a rescue excavation and protection work carried out to forge cooperation with the Baima project, the last of a cascade of hydropower stations on the section of the Wujiang River in Chongqing. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(231130) -- BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges self-made works of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges self-made works of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Xiao Congli (1st R), research director of the Gansu Jiandu Museum, talks with colleagues about digitalization of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges a work of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Yang Sheng (R) registers the information of "Jiandu" with her colleague Chang Xiaoli at the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members of the Gansu Jiandu Museum conduct routine check in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Yang Sheng checks the condition of preserved "Jiandu" at the warehouse of the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Students sign signatures after visiting the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)

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China's provincial culture, tourism exhibited in London

STORY: China's provincial culture, tourism exhibited in London DATELINE: Oct. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: London CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the promotion campaign 2. SOUNDBITE (English): JOHN MCLEAN, Chairman of the UK-China Business Development Center STORYLINE: A series of activities were held in London Friday to display and promote the culture and tourism charm of China's southwestern Sichuan Province. The promotion campaign included a landscape photo exhibition, a long-spout teapot pouring Kungfu show, and Sichuan Opera face-changing performance. Some unique cultural products were also exhibited, like the Sichuan embroidery, lacquerware and traditional oil-paper umbrella. Themed "Nihao! China -- Sichuan, more than pandas," the event was hosted by the Culture and Tourism Department of Sichuan Province. For many British panda lovers, their first impression of Sichuan is the homeland of giant pandas. In the past 12 years, the giant pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian living

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China endeavors to keep ancient city of Pingyao alive

STORY: China endeavors to keep ancient city of Pingyao alive DATELINE: Jan. 2, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:36 LOCATION: TAIYUAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Pingyao ancient city 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LEI YAXIAN, Director of Pingyao County cultural relics institute 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XUE SHENGJIN, Craftsman of Pingyao varnished lacquerware 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): MENG JIAJIA, Xue's apprentice 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): HU XIAOPENG, Resident 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): GENG BAOGUO, Resident STORYLINE: Pingyao in north China's Shanxi Province is an ancient walled city with a history of over 2,800 years. Boasting well-preserved urban planning and architecture from the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911), Pingyao was named a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1997. Covering an area of 2.25 square km, the ancient city is home to more than 300 cultural relics and nearly 4,000 traditional buildings. Over the past decades, the Chinese government has initiated a string of measures for the prote

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Lacquer medal case, pin badges eyed for 2020 Olympics

KANAZAWA, Japan - The city government of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and the local "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware industry have jointly crafted a medal case and pin badges, as seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014, for possible use as official goods at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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Calligraphers write names of newly elected lawmakers

TOKYO, Japan - Calligraphers write on plates on Dec. 17, 2014, the names of legislators newly elected to the lower house of the Diet in the Dec. 14 general election at a lacquerware wholesaler in Tokyo ahead of an extraordinary parliamentary session to be convened on Dec. 24.

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Writing of new lower house members' names in full swing

TOKYO, Japan - Calligraphers are busy writing on plates on Dec. 17, 2014, the names of legislators newly elected to the lower house of the Diet in the Dec. 14 general election at a lacquerware wholesaler in Tokyo ahead of an extraordinary parliamentary session to be convened on Dec. 24.

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'Wajima-nuri' lacquerware for Kanazawa Station

KANAZAWA, Japan - "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware is seen in this undated photo. The item is one of 300 traditional arts and crafts in 31 categories to be on display at JR Kanazawa Station in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. The Hokuriku Shinkansen's Nagano-Kanazawa section is scheduled to begin operating in spring 2015.

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Mascot character Kumamon look-alike made of lacquerware

YONAGO, Japan - A figure that looks like Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, made of lacquerware is exhibited at a traditional event in Nambu, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on April 12, 2014.

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Ancient Chinese sounds revived

The photo shows a replica of a 2,500-year-old Chinese music instrument, pianzhong, on display for the ''Lacquerware from the Tombs of Hubei, China'' exhibition that began at the Tokyo National Museum on Wednesday July 22. The instrument is played five times a day by six players from the Hubei Provincial Museum during the exhibition that runs until Sept. 6.

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CHINA-JIANGXI-LACQUERWARE-MARQUIS OF HAIHUN-EXHIBITION (CN)

(221121) -- NANCHANG, Nov. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Undated photo shows a lacquered plate decorated with dragon patterns, unearthed from the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun, on display at an exhibition in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. TO GO WITH "Cultural China: Millennia-old lacquerware on display at Jiangxi exhibition" (Xinhua)