A garden of cultural heritage
The famed Yuyuan hosts a month-long festival featuring diverse traditional Chinese crafts, immersing visitors in a multitude of activities, Wang Xin reports.
Standing at the center of Yuyuan Garden's Central Plaza in Shanghai is an eye-catching installation made of woven bamboo, an intangible cultural heritage from Daoming town in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Kicking off on Nov 14 and running through Dec 14, a festival is gathering hundreds of China's intangible cultural heritage crafts and over 20 time-honored brands around Yuyuan Garden and its mall area.
Over the month-long celebration, inheritors of diverse intangible cultural heritages offer innovative, immersive, interactive, and international demonstrations of traditional Chinese culture for domestic and overseas visitors.
Xiao Yao, the 31-year-old inheritor of the Daoming bamboo-weaving craft, leads the design and setup of the impressive installation. Decorated with golden ginkgo leaves, the woven bamboo is painted in gold and red, flowing over the roofs of historical buildings across Yuyuan.
