/PRNewswire/ -- With a simple needle moving up and down on a piece of cloth, a delicate flower begins to take shape under her hands. Watching Yao Jianping...
With a simple needle moving up and down on a piece of cloth, a delicate flower begins to take shape under her hands.
Watching Yao Jianping doing embroidery is just like watching a ballet performance of fingers; it is both elegant and skillful.
Ever since she was a young girl, Yao, a well-known artist from Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, has been creating Suzhou Embroidery, one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and the most representative type of Chinese embroidery.
In this issue of the Cultural Influencer series, the Global Times sat down with Yao at her studio in a suburban town of Suzhou, the birthplace of the craft, to explore her unique artistic style as well as get her thoughts on how to adapt this fine traditional art to modern times and make it a daily part of people's everyday life.
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Under the baton of conductor Chen Xieyang, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra gave a concert at the Beijing Concert Hall on Jan 9, performing two pieces by Dmitri Shostakovich: The Gadfly SuiteĀ and Symphony No 10 in E Minor.
Under the baton of conductor Chen Xieyang, the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and the China National Traditional Orchestra will perform a fusion of classical symphonic and traditional Chinese music at a gala on Thursday at the capital's Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. It will open the 22nd Meet in Beijing International Arts Festival and the Meet in Beijing Olympic Culture Festival.
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