Auckland children performers watch Yan Qun, the inheritor of Peking Opera mask painting, painting the Peaking Opera mask with great interest at the 2018 “Chinese New Year” Flower Fair at the Vodafone Event Centre in Auckland Feb 10, 2018. [Photo/Chinaculture.org]

At the fair, a paper-cut of the famous painting Riverside Scene of Qingming Festival, several meters long, arrested the local visitors. This is the representative work of Lin Huaqiang, the inheritor of paper cutting from Linyi city, East China’s Shandong province. Meanwhile, visitors all of ages learned to make paper-cuts from Lin.

Kites of different vivid images and bright colors were also on display at the fair. Designed and made by Yang Hongwei, the third-generation inheritor of Weifang kites from East China’s Shandong province, these kites added color to the New Year celebration in Auckland.

“The reason why we invited the six intangible cultural heritage inheritors to the 2018 Chinese New Year Flower Fair is that we want to take this opportunity to showcase the diversity of Chinese intangible cultural heritages and Chinese folk culture. Also, we want to provide New Zealanders with a more vivid and stereoscopic impression of Chinese New Year customs,” Guo Zongguang, director of the China Cultural Center in New Zealand, said at the fair.