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Hu Xinming's pig zodiac sculpture, A Galleria Pangea featured artist, has recently been selected to feature on the official stamp of 2007's Chinese New Year, the "Year of the Pig."

Hu Xinming, who has been working in sculpting for over 30 years, was chosen for his design of the Zodiac Pig statue with traditional folk art style designs. His design will be featured in stamps distributed throughout China in honor of the Chinese New Year, which is one of the largest festivals in the country. This is the third time for his zodiac animal designs to be featured on stamps. His previous goat and monkey design stamps were very well received by the public.

Here you can find his work for sale at Galleria Pangea.

This video taken by our Beijing office staff features the making of Black Pottery. The artist carves the patterns and designs after the item is fired.

You can find all the black pottery items here

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Easter is coming. We have the perfect items for your Easter decorations.

From March 26, enter "Decor" during checkout, customers can get 5% off the listed price. If you have not tried Google Checkout yet, signup and get $10 off provided by Google. This deal can be combined with the 5% deal. With Google Checkout, customers only need to remember their google account information and password for thousands of E Commerce site.

Don't forget to checkout our new handmade easter bunnies.

The shadow play or leather silhouette play is an ancient art form, which has its roots in China. Chinese shadow play stories and characters are mostly from folk lore and classic literature. The shows would be performed during weddings, holidays, and funerals. It was once very popular in China. But now, only a handful of people still perform. You can find framed shadow play puppet at Galleria Pangea. Our puppets, by Xue Hongquan, are hand carved and painted, also features movable joints just like the leather puppets used in actual plays. You can open up the frame, attach sticks, and perform your own show for your children.
Here is a video of the puppet making process.

Here is a video clip of an actual shadow play performance by Hua County Troupe.

The facial makeup, fighting moves, and interesting stories really makes Beijing (Peking) opera an interesting way to learn Chinese culture. Even Jackie Chan was in a Beijing opera troupe and learned his moves there when he was young.

You can find Beijing opera wall art and painted masks from our store.

The following Beijing opera video clip features a story from the Romance of Three Kingdoms. One of the best known books in China. The stories and characters have become a part of the Chinese culture. You can find Three Kingdom characters related products at Galleria Pangea too. Cao Cao of Wei, Zhao Yuan and Guan Yu of Shu are featured in this clip.

Hong Kong director John Woo (Face Off, Broken Arrow) is shooting a Chinese film "Red Cliff". With 80 million dollars of investment, this film will be the most expensive movie in Asian film history.

"Red Cliff" is based on a war from the Three Kingdoms period where Shu and Wu kings joined forces and defeated Wei king, Cao Cao. The movie will be released in 2008 before the Beijing Olympics.

Our previous Beijing Opera video clip also features the same story.

This is a Nuo Mask of Cao Cao, the Wei Kingdom ruler.