{"id":22677,"date":"2025-12-24T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:50:37","slug":"7-popular-2025-stories-celebrating-chinese-culture-from-seal-carving-to-waffles-and-tofu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=22677","title":{"rendered":"7 popular 2025 stories celebrating Chinese culture, from seal carving to waffles and tofu"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Chinese culture is a rich blend of ancient traditions, core philosophies and strong family values that have influenced the region \u2013 and the world \u2013 through its arts, cuisine, philosophy and history.<\/p>\n

Here, we revisit seven stories of 2025 that celebrate Chinese culture, from a story on Yang Enhua, who won a global competition playing the erhu, to a designer who gives the classic cheongsam a modern twist.<\/p>\n

Other stories explore the art of seal carving and porcelain painting.<\/p>\n

1. The ancient craft of seal carving<\/h3>\n

Man Wa Lane is an alley in one of Hong Kong\u2019s oldest neighbourhoods, Sheung Wan. A portion of it, nicknamed \u201cChop Alley\u201d, has been the home of Chinese stone seal makers since the 1930s.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen stalls specialising in stamps still line the alley, but the know-how involved in this ancient craft is fading, and only a few of the owners still make stone seals by hand.<\/p>\n

Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770BC-476BC), when the tradition of signing documents with personalised engraved stone seals dipped in vermilion cinnabar paste began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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