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Artist uses ‘bamboo brush’ for Chinese painting techniques muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Instead of a pencil, Deng Yu sketches most of his paintings with a “bamboo brush（竹刷，zhú shuā）”. Inspired by Chinese writing brushes（毛笔，máo bǐ）, his brush is made of bamboo twigs, and represents his latest attempt to create（创造，chuàng zào） unpredictability in splatter effects. Artist uses ‘bamboo brush’ for Chinese painting techniques “After trying various materials（材料，cái liào）, including paper, plastic and styrofoam, I found the handmade（手工的，shǒu gōng de） bamboo brush handles the heavy and thick acrylic paint well. On canvas（画布，huà bù）, its effect is close to the art of Chinese calligraphy（书法，shū fǎ）,” the 44-year-old artist from Shenyang, Liaoning province, said. Through Western color and Chinese painting techniques（技巧，jì qiǎo）, Deng has been looking for an intersection between Eastern and Western art styles. With the unpredictable painting effects（效果，xiào guǒ） of these tools,...

阿木爷爷 Grandpa Amu, traditional Chinese mortise and tenon skills muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Wang Dewen, a 63-year-old carpenter, uses traditional techniques in the woodworking object he makes. Consider Wang Dewen a fortunate man. While most people may be content to settle for one profession so long as it’s a reasonably good fit, Wang has had three distinct incarnations over his lifetime. First, at a young age, he was a farmer; then he became a carpenter; and now, at age 63, he has become an internet celebrity. Wang’s YouTube account under the moniker Grandpa Amu, has 1.2 million followers. On video-sharing platform TikTok, he has 2.6 million followers. In Grandpa Amu’s videos, he uses traditional Chinese mortise and tenon skills to make different wooden products, the same skill used in many classic structures in China, including the Forbidden City in Beijing. The videos range from one minute to more than 20 minutes. Some were shot in front of his workshop, a wo...

Shenzhen increase public baby care and breastfeed facilities muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen（深圳） hopes to increase public baby care and breastfeeding facilities to 1,000 by the end of the year, an 18 percent rise above the existing 845, the Shenzhen Women’s Federation has said. Baby care rooms（育婴室 yù yīng shì） in the city usually contain at least a seating area, a diaper(尿布 niào bù) changing station, a sink(水槽 shuǐ cáo) and a mirror(镜子 jìng zi). Some are extra equipped with a microwave(微波炉 wēi bō lú), a feeding bottle warmer and a sterilization facility（灭菌设备 miè jūn shè bèi）. In 2019, the largest nursing room opened its doors at Shenzhen International Airport. Shenzhen, which is ranked fourth among the world’s most economically competitive cities, is the first around the country to include the construction(建设 jiàn shè) of baby care facilities in its women’s development planning, according to the China News Service. The facilities h...