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Traditional handicrafts that are dying out

Updated: 2014-09-24 07:00 (chinaculture.org)
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Traditional handicrafts that are dying out

Pen mending. In a time of "material shortage", a pen represented fashion and status and thus pen menders were indispensible. With simple tools, only they can make the broken pen return to normal with the ink flowing. [Photo by Li Ming/Asianewsphoto]

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