Ancient Skills in a
Modern Economy
In a monastery studio high above the Sha Tin valley and the waters of Tolo Harbour, skills as old as Confucius guide a Chinese brush across a porcelain plate to trace an image of Christ and His Apostles in mandarin robes, set among the pine trees and pavilions of old Cathay. Elsewhere in the rustic New Territories, techniques still more ancient produce faithful replicas of bronze sacrificial urns from the Shang-Yin Dynasty.
Versed in such skills, craftsmen are preserving, in modern day Hong Kong, the traditions of an artistic heritage that has flowered in China through countless generations. Side by side with the technology of the plastics and electronics age that keeps the Colony in the forefront of the world's manufacturing countries, these home industries and crafts, almost all of which are family concerns, are finding their way to markets around the globe.
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A Biblical scene hand- painted on porcelain at To Fung Shan Monastery in Sha Tin.
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