A corner of the Folk is Fashion! Festival displays handmade cloth art, decorated with the embroidery of auspicious patterns and words that means "happy" and "healthy". Folk is Fashion! Festival is being held in Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center now, aiming to promote Chinese folk art. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com/Wang Xiaoyu]

Inheritors of intangible cultural heritage demonstrate traditional weaving skills on a weaving machine at the Folk is Fashion!

An artist represents his work of Chinese ikebana, also called "Chunpan" in Chinese, at the Folk is Fashion! Festival。

A teenage participant is drawing spring patterns on a paper lantern at the Folk is Fashion!

The folk painting artist Li Xiangang is drawing an auspicious painting at the festival. Li's auspicious painting is a combination of Chinese traditional drawing style and pencil sketch kills.

Handicraft works with patterns of roosters is displayed at the Folk is Fashion!，made with colorful paper, plastic clay and brilliant feathers. The rooster is the symbol of the coming Chinese Lunar New Year, and part of the Chinese zodiac, which assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.