Exhibition zooms in on cultural heritage

Film and photography highlight handicrafts, performing arts and ritual celebrations, Yang Feiyue reports.

Scenes of stone-paved alleys lined with ancient-looking houses and lush forest with waterfalls have a way of drawing the audience in to the arcadian landscape of Jiangjin district in Southwest China's Chongqing.

They are shown at the beginning of a 4-minute film highlighting a local distinctive dragon dance and set the stage for the subsequent emergence of dancing performers dressed in bright red costumes.

They move in harmony with the beat of drums and gongs, and the painted bamboo-made dragons they carry nimbly slither and coil, gliding through the air, as if having a life of their own.