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Arts and crafts are the wonderful works of art in the cultural and art treasure house of the Chinese nation. Carving embroidery, and porcelain, glassware, weaving, printing and dyeing, replicas of ancient cultural relics are all exquisite in craft and of varied graceful bearing. Cloisonneis the special traditional handicraft of Beijing, and Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain is the representative porcelain of China. China's hand-made carpets sell briskly on international markets. Suzhou, Hunan, Guangdong and Sichhuan embroidery are known as China's "four large famous embroideries". Zhejiang's Dongyang wood carving and bambooware, Tianjin's painted clay figurines by artisan Zhang, Shandong's straw and willow article's Henan's Luoyang Tang tri-color horses and camels, Guizhou's batik, Jiangsu's Wuxi Hui clay figurines and the four treasures of study: Anhui's Xuan paper and ink stick, Guangdong's Zhaoqing Duan ink slab and Zhejiang's Wuxing Shanlian Hu writing brush, as well as folk scissor cut created by women farmers are all long-famous handicrafts.

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