# Chinese Craft Stories > Chinese Craft Stories connects you with China’s living heritage through public inventories. Discover skills, places and the people who carry traditions forward, with Chinese and English search and reading. An independent cultural resource based on public records, unaffiliated with government bodies or UNESCO. English pages are rendered at the edge without JavaScript; the bilingual interactive edition lives under the same URLs. Public records: 3610 project records, 3053 representative bearers, 10 categories. ## Sections - [Home](https://feiyi.page/en): Chinese Craft Stories connects you with China’s living heritage through public inventories. Discover skills, places and the people who carry traditions forward, with Chinese and English search and reading. - [About Chinese Craft Stories](https://feiyi.page/en/about): Discover our purpose, public sources and bilingual approach to exploring China’s living heritage. - [Understanding heritage](https://feiyi.page/en/knowledge): Explore intangible heritage, living transmission, safeguarding principles and inventory systems. - [Ten heritage categories](https://feiyi.page/en/categories): Explore the ten national heritage categories, their definitions and regional records. - [The heritage collection](https://feiyi.page/en/projects): Search national heritage records by category, region, batch and code, with introductions and original sources. - [Representative bearers](https://feiyi.page/en/inheritors): Meet representative heritage bearers and explore public records by project, region and category. - [UNESCO inscriptions](https://feiyi.page/en/unesco): Explore China’s UNESCO inscriptions, urgent safeguarding entries and good practices with official sources. - [Cultural ecology zones](https://feiyi.page/en/eco-zones): Explore cultural ecology zones, their regions, establishment dates and links with community life. - [Heritage glossary](https://feiyi.page/en/glossary): Understand heritage terms in Chinese and English, from living transmission to holistic safeguarding. - [Heritage data & insights](https://feiyi.page/en/stats): Explore category, batch and regional distributions of heritage projects and bearers through charts and tables. ## Ten categories - [Folk Literature](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A0): Oral literature collectively created and transmitted by word of mouth over long periods of productive and social life, including myths, epics, legends, folktales, ballads, proverbs and riddles. As a living vehicle of ethnic memory and langu - [Traditional Music](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A1): Musical practices formed and transmitted over long histories across China's ethnic groups, covering folk songs, instrumental music, narrative singing, opera music and religious/ritual music. Closely tied to labour, festivals and rituals, it - [Traditional Dance](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A2): Dance forms transmitted within folk rituals, festivals and daily life, including yangge, dragon dance, lion dance, drum dance, lantern dance and the representative dances of various ethnic groups. Most are participatory and perform ritual f - [Traditional Opera](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A3): Traditional Chinese theatrical forms built on the synthesis of singing, recitation, acting and martial movement, encompassing national genres such as Kunqu and Peking opera, several hundred regional genres, and puppet and shadow theatre. It - [Quyi (Narrative Performing Arts)](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A4): Performing arts centred on speaking, singing or a combination of both, also known as narrative singing arts. They include storytelling, tanci, drum ballads, clapper talk, comic dialogue (xiangsheng) and errenzhuan, characterized by a single - [Traditional Sports, Games and Acrobatics](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A5): Traditional martial arts, competitive sports, board games, folk games and acrobatic skills of China's ethnic groups. They combine physical training with philosophical concepts and constitute a system for transmitting bodily knowledge. - [Traditional Fine Arts](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A6): Plastic arts created by hand with pronounced ethnic and regional aesthetic character, including painting, sculpture, paper-cutting, New Year pictures, embroidery, weaving and knotting, and lantern art. They are closely bound to folk life. - [Traditional Craftsmanship](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A7): Traditional manual production techniques and craft systems covering ceramics, textile dyeing and weaving, metalwork, architectural construction, food brewing and processing, papermaking and printing. This is the largest of the ten categorie - [Traditional Medicine](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A8): Traditional medical knowledge and practices of China's ethnic groups, centred on traditional Chinese medicine, including diagnostics, acupuncture and moxibustion, bone-setting, herbal processing and preparations, as well as Tibetan, Mongoli - [Folk Customs](https://feiyi.page/en/categories/%E2%85%A9): Etiquette, festivals, beliefs, dress, foodways and knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe that have formed over long social life — such as the Spring Festival, the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, memorial ceremonies and temple ## Complete reading & record index - [Full English index](https://feiyi.page/llms-full-en.txt): every project and bearer with a Markdown reading entry. - [Sitemap](https://feiyi.page/sitemap-en.xml): all indexable English URLs. Every English detail page has a Markdown companion: append .md to the path, for example https://feiyi.page/en/projects/2461.md.