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  • Dough Modeling

    2017-06-26

    Dough modeling, also called dough figurines, blends the main material, sticky rice flour, with different pigments to create various vivid figures made by hand or simple tools.

  • Buddhism petroglyphs ​in Alax

    2017-06-26

    The petroglyphs have distinct characteristics of grassland and Tibetan Buddhist culture, resulting in the spread of Tibetan Buddhism under the influence of Tsangyang Gyatso.

  • Mongolia embroidery

    2017-06-26

    The embroideries on clothes, ger blankets and harnesses offer people great emotional appeal, with its distinct national features, local colors and vivid, delicate and unadorned characteristics.

  • Paper cutting

    2017-06-26

    Paper cutting is a style of hollow-out art, giving people the transparent visual feeling and artistic enjoyment.

  • Gobi jades’ unique craftsmanship and features

    2016-11-30

    Gobi jades with unique natural features and traditional exquisite craftsmanship drew people’s eyes recently.

  • Landscape paintings by Zhou Ding

    2014-05-23

    Zhou Ding, known for his landscape painting, was born in Jiaocheng City, Shanxi province, in 1955. In 1988, he was introduced to Hohhot as an artist.

  • Mongolian knife

    2013-12-19

    Mongolian knife is a daily article and a status symbol as well. All will look down on a man without his knife.

  • Birch bark utensil

    2017-06-23

    The tradition of making utensils out of birch barks still exists in North China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and some parts of neighboring Heilongjiang Province.