A folk artist makes a dough figurine, or miansu in Chinese, as a traditional folk craft at the Yulin Folk Culture Exhibition. A folk culture exhibition featuring more than 500 folk art exhibits was held in Yulin town of Hohhot, North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Feb 12. A variety of folk arts including sugar painting, paper cutting and New Year pictures are on display from about 30 folk artists. [Photo by Shao Kun/Xinhua]

A folk artist paints a New Year picture at the Yulin Folk Culture Exhibition on Feb 12. [Photo by Shao Kun/Xinhua]