China Week in New Zealand reveals secrets of Dunhuang

Date:2018-09-12       Source:China culture

A Shandong puppet show is performed at the opening ceremony for the exhibition Let's Dunhuang - Cultural Experience from Dunhuang with Innovation on June 8, 2018. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org]

The just-concludedChina Week: Inheritance and Innovationshowed cultural products from Dunhuang - home to the famed Mogao Caves - in Northwest China's Gansu province, at the Wellington Central Library in New Zealand.

The weeklong event was highlighted by an exhibition titledLet's Dunhuang - Cultural Experience from Dunhuang with Innovationand the workshopEchoes of Dunhuang, where visitors could not only learn the history and culture of Dunhuang via displays of photos and videos, but were also able to try their hands at making lipstick in a Dunhuang-themed shade of orange.

Nicola Willis, a member of the New Zealand National Assembly, tries on a lipstick in a shade of orange featured in murals in Dunhuang, on June 8, 2018. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org]

Guo Zongguang, director of New Zealand's China Cultural Center, said at the event's opening on June 8 that the 2018 China Week focuses on creative cultural products from China to show the creative development of traditional Chinese culture.

"We invited delegates from the Dunhuang Research Institute of China to offer exhibits and creative products from Dunhuang to present to the people of New Zealand the cultural landscape of this important trade town along the ancient Silk Road."

The event is co-organized by the China Cultural Center in New Zealand, the Network of International Culturalink Entities of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Dunhuang Academy.