Guizhou folk artist makes vivid painting

Zuo Huiping works on a tongcaoduihua painting in her workshop in Zunyi city, Guizhou province, Nov 10, 2018. [Photo/IC]

The technique of creating tongcaoduihua painting is a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage item of Guizhou province. Tongcaoduihua is a kind of traditional handicraft, which uses Chinese herbal medicine Ricepaperplant Pith as raw material, and is always themed on flower, grass, bird and insect. Tongcaoduihua is made through design, drawing, cutting into pieces, carving, painting and assembling.

Zuo Huiping is an inheritor of the folk art. During recent years, Zuo has pursued continuous innovation of the traditional making technique, combining market demand, and her artworks have been sold in US, Japan and African countries.