Foreign Journalists Applaud Yaotou Cultural Inheritance

Foreign journalists visit the Yaotou Kilns Cultural Tourism Ecological Park. [Photo: Chen Qiang]

Foreign journalists participating in the 2019 Reporting Tour to Weinan have visited the Yaotou Kilns Cultural Tourism Ecological Park, where they made ceramics, explored the past of the kilns and learned about local efforts for the inheritance of cultural heritages.

Foreign journalists film an inheritor of the craftsmanship of Yaotou ceramics. [Photo: Li Ou]

Situated in Yaotou Township, Chengcheng County, the park covers an area of four square kilometers. Experts call it a “living fossil” of ancient ceramic kilns. The technique of making ceramics in Yaotou Kiln was listed among the first National Intangible Cultural Heritages in June, 2006.

The Yaotou Kilns Cultural Tourism Ecological Park in Chengcheng County, Weinan City of Shaanxi Province. [Photo: Li Ou]

Accompanied by park staff, the journalists appreciated and videotaped the making of ceramic products by experienced craftsmen at a workshop.

Journalist Kim Jinseok with South Korean magazine Orchid and Life is trying to make a ceramic product by himself. [Photo: Li Ou]

They also got an opportunity to experience the traditional craftsmanship themselves.

Journalist Kim Jinseok with South Korean magazine Orchid and Life said “It’s really a beautiful place. I like it very much. Neither the inheritance of traditional skills or ecological conservation on such a large scale is easy. It’s a good place for cultural exchange and cultural creation and also a place that is worth your time to further understand and experience.”