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| Shanxi Museum's staff members work on the "toy bricks", miniature wooden blocks. (China Daily/Wei Xiaohao) |
By letting more people know about her works, she says she also hopes to become one of the country's intangible cultural heritage inheritors, which means an allowance of 10,000 yuan from the central government every year.
Near Liu's table, Hu Zhiqi and his son Hu Xiao were at the fair to promote their family tradition — woodblock New Year prints. Their family business has survived for four generations, says the 28-year-old son.
With a collection of about 40 sets of woodblocks, some of which are more than 100 years old, the family is the only traditional New Year woodblock print maker in Liulin county.
In 2008, Hu Xiao, an artist with formal art education, took the family's woodblock prints to Jaipur, India.
"In Liulin, few people would buy our New Year prints, which are priced at 50 to 100 yuan each and more expensive than common printed New Year paintings," Hu says.
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