Two women show students how to make dough modelings at Dongdashan Arts District in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Feb 20. The students went to tour the arts district and appreciate handicrafts such as Baotou paper-cuts, Chinese paintings on silk, dough modeling and sugar-figure blowing (a traditional folk art in China). [Photo/Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Qingshan district]

Students learn painting with a Chinese brush in Dongdashan Arts District in Baotou. [Photo/Baotou Daily]

Students practice the rites of presenting khata in a Mongolian yurt in Baotou. Khata is a traditional ceremonial scarf. Khata, which symbolize purity and compassion, are presented at many ceremonial occasions, including births, weddings and the arrival or departure of guests. [Photo/civilization office of Baotou]