Since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the city of Yixing has been an important center for ceramic production in China. Kilns could once be found in Qinglong (Green Dragon) Mountain, Huanglong (Yellow Dragon) Mountain, Shushan, Qianluo and other places.
Yixing in Jiangsu province has built up a worldwide reputation for a special kind of vessel.
The main decorative methods and features of crafts are Jun glaze and embossed decoration. There are two types of Jun-glazed pottery clay body: white and purple; and dozens of under glazes' colors.
The city of Yixing has a pottery-making history of more than 2,400 years, with the Yixing purple clay teapot being the most famous one.
Wuxi is the main production place for bamboo carving in the southern area of the Yangtze River. The bamboo works of Wuxi are refined, simple, elegant, beautiful and decorative and enjoy increasingly popularity among local people and tourists in Wuxi.
Wuxi opera is commonly known as Wuxi Tanhuang, which is popular in the southern part of Jiangsu
At the end of the 11th century BC, Prince Tai Bo and his brother Prince Zhong Yong, heirs to the throne of Zhou, traveled south from present-day Qishan Mountain in Shanxi province, to an area of wilderness until stumbling upon Meili, known as Meicun Town today.
Wuxi Taoist music consists of vocal sounds and instrumental music and has distinctive secular and regional artistic features.
