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Core Tip:As the country is paying more and more attention to its advancement of intangible culturalheritage, China's paper culture, with its thousands of years in history, is becoming the center ofattention.
Paper culture heritage highlighted in Beijing

Great Seed produced a documentary after their 5,000 -kilometer journey across Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunanprovinces to explore the ancient art of papermaking. 

As the country is paying more and more attention to its advancement of intangible culturalheritage, China's paper culture, with its thousands of years in history, is becoming the center ofattention.

After concluding a month-long research and video-documentary on ancient papermaking, aspecial symposium highlighting Chinese paper cultural heritage was held at Tsinghua Universityon Dec 12.

Organized by Great Seed, a startup aiming to build an online community to preserve the world'sintangible cultural heritage, a team of experts, artists and media have conducted a 5,000 kmjourney across Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hunan province exploring the ancient art of papermaking, ajourney that lasted from October to November.

Valuable heritage in Chinese culture

"The Chinese have a deep and special emotion attached to paper. It's a kind of nationalsentiment," said Tang Shukun, committee member of experts on the protection of paper heritagein East Asia by UNESCO. Tang participated in the discussion along with other experts, artistsand papermaking inheritors.

Tang stressed that China is the place where paper was first invited and that the creation plays anessential role on the country's history advancement and aesthetic system.

"Different from the West, traditional Chinese art creations, such as paintings and calligraphy, areconducted on paper. Paper shapes our artistic taste," Tang said, emphasizing the importance ofancient papermaking research and protection.

Tang's comment echoed Wang Yiqiong's experience. Wang is a well-known Chinesecontemporary artist. He demonstrated his works painted on different types of handmade paper,including Xuan, Ma, Zhu and Teng.

"Different paper has different textures and feelings, which makes different artistic effects on yourwork," Wang said. "Paper gives you a certain frame and keynote, based on which you create."Wang explained that to follow paper's features and to make the painting match the paper is aninteresting yet essential process.

"There is not bad paper, only bad artists," he encourages painters to try different paper.

 

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