In pics: When Winter Games meet Chinese crafts(1/14)

A visitor look around the embroidery work of the 2022 Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Haidong City, Qinghai Province, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Traditional Qinghai embroidery using distinctive ethnic techniques and paper-cutting crafts from Gansu have created regional culture icons to promote the ongoing 2022 Winter Games in Beijing and Zhangjiakou of Hebei Province.

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An embroiderer of the Tu ethnic group shows an embroidery work of the Winter Olympics mascot Bing Dwen Dwen, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Embroiderers of the Tu ethnic group stitch the Winter Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Qinghai, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Traditional embroidery crafts combining the Tu and Mongol characteristics as well as regional technique from Qinghai have boosted the embroidery promotion of the Winter Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Qinghai, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Embroiderers of the Tu ethnic group stitch the Winter Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Qinghai, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Traditional embroidery crafts combining the Tu and Mongol characteristics as well as regional technique from Qinghai have boosted the embroidery promotion of the Winter Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Qinghai, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Embroiderers of the Tu ethnic group stitch the Winter Games mascot Bing Dwen Dwen at a workshop in Qinghai, Feb. 9, 2022. (Photo provided by Ma Mingyan)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest Chinas Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)

Paper-cut Bing Dwen Dwen made by craftswomen in Qingyang, northwest China's Gansu Province. (Photo provided by Xu Xue)