China handicraft exhibition held in South Africa

To help promote Chinese culture to the world, an art exhibition showcasing the vibrant development of Chinese handicrafts was opened at the University Of Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov 29.

Themed "Floral Seas", the event hosted by Shanghai University and the University of Johannesburg features dozens of intangible cultural heritage crafts by inheritors and some faculty and students from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibits include three national-level projects and five provincial-level ones.

A highlighted exhibit at the exhibition that will run through late January 2025 is the first Chinese embroidery piece to have traveled into space. It is a piece of artwork from the "training program for Chinese intangible cultural heritage inheritors (embroidery workshop)" hosted by the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the Shanghai Public Art Coordination Center.

The exhibition is divided into three sections: "Floral Seas", "Symbiosis of All Beings", and "Everlasting Life", and features traditional Chinese cultural items, such as embroidery, paper cutting, kites, New Year paintings, silver pots, and purple clay teapots.