The air of fortune and majesty intensified at festive exhibition
Works on display include shadow puppets, engraved wood decorations, woodblocks, Nuo Opera masks, colored paintings and embroideries, along with introductory texts. They navigate the audience through a journey of knowledge, to the source of origin of how dragon was conceived and imbued with ancient Chinese takes on the world, for example its association with climate and its role to link men with the celestial world.
Also, the exhibition hails the brilliance of those time-honored crafts as the vivid examples of intangible cultural heritage. For example the largest item on show is a 2.7-meter-long antique wood bed, ornamented with layers of carved details to show the handicraft intricacy of Hunan province. And people can make dragon-motif woodblocks and keep them as souvenirs.
