Hebei culture week begins

Hebei began its week-long culture show on May 15 with folk arts including acrobatic, martial arts and shadow puppet show at the Expo site.

Hebei culture week begins.

Artists from the northern Chinese province set up a dozen booths at the Baosteel Stage in Zone B of Pudong site to show their traditional crafts, such as woodblock prints, reliefs on iron panel and clay figurines.

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Visitors can learn to make and buy their own works at the stage through Tuesday.

The relief on iron panel became the most popular booth as the brother Guo Haibo and Guo Hailong, the only two successors of the skills, were hammering out a lotus on an iron panel.

Ken Hughey, a college professor from New Zealand, was attracted to the booth by its noises. “It’s a fantastic artwork and quite noisy that is interesting to me,” he said.

The 54-year-old woodblock print veteran Liu Guosheng, brought several wooden molds to the stage that visitors can easily made their own pictures. The price is 10 yuan each.

Some 30-minute acrobatic shows, including the province’s most famous pagoda of bowls, are being performed at 10:30am, 3pm and 7pm at the stage during the week.

Visitors can watch costume dances, which are being staged at the same time at the Celebration Square.

A street parade on the Baocheng Road is held from 12pm every day.

Following culture weeks of the month include Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Liaoning.