Intangible cultural heritages went on show in Kunming's Heilongtan Park at an exhibition on Feb 22 and 23 to celebrate Lantern Festival.

Art inheritors demonstrated the city's top 10 intangible culture heritages at the park, including Dongjing music, gourd carving, Sani cross-stitch and paper cutting.

Dough modeling is a traditional folk art that uses flour as the main material. After being made into different colors, the dough can be molded into various forms.

Guandu Erkuai is one of the most characteristic Yunnan specialties. It can be made by various cooking methods, including frying, stewing, steaming and baking. The food is an indispensable dish for Yunnan people during Spring Festival.

Yunnan style kites have a history of more than 500 years. They are suitable to the province's climate thanks to the skill of local craftsmen.

Yunnan style kite.

Crafted with melted sugar on a flat surface, shapes of monkeys, butterflies and birds are attached to bamboo sticks to be eaten as a treat. This skillful art form is known as sugar painting and is popular among evening revelers.

Suger painting.

As a traditional folk art, paper cutting also enjoys a long history in Kunming. Local artist Wang Yuan is a specialist in paper cutting portraiture and is honored as "genius cutter".

Paper cutting.

Edited by Jacob Hooson