Niu Chengguo's creations of fire-painted bottle gourd.[Photo provided to China Daily] "As a child, I watched him burn patterns with heated pieces of metal, and I found it very magical," Niu says.

BEIJING, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alongside the rising enthusiasm for traditional Chinese culture, gourd pyrography in Zaozhuang City of east China's Shandong Province is catching more and more ...

The miracle of DNA has finally solved the age-old question: How did bottle gourds come to America? This plant has no wild progenitors in the Western Hemisphere. The gourd grown by early cultures in ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Niu Chengguo has carried a flame for the craft of gourd pyrography since childhood and is trying to help the intangible cultural heritage to find its place in the new era. Niu Chengguo was beyond ...

Niu Chengguo introduces his gourd pyrography works at a culture museum in Shunyi district, northeastern Beijing.[Photo provided to China Daily] He found electric irons can be used to brand patterns on ...