07-19-2007 10:01
Special Report: 2008 Beijing Olympics
Special Report: 80th Anniversary of PLA
Mention folk art and their practitioners - people naturally think of peasant women, bent over a piece of embroidery, against a rustic setting of farmland. The picture is bucolic, peaceful and idyllic - there's not even a faintest whiff of battlefield, or warfare. That explains why visitors at a current exhibition of folk art in Beijing experience a combination of disorientation and exhilaration when confronted with the military-themed exhibits.
Think folk arts have nothing to do with the country's warring history? Then you are under the wrong impression, as a close look at the exhibits will reveal.
